Miami Investigative Power & Influence Reporter - Remote

Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK; United States; Remote; USD 33,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK seeks a Money, Power & Influence Reporter based in Miami to cover South Florida’s powerful individuals, institutions, and networks. You’ll produce exclusive enterprise reporting, break news, and explain complex financial, political, and business issues for a broad audience across markets.

The beat spans Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, with a focus on government transparency, real estate, wealth, and influence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in journalism, communications or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 3–5 years of reporting experience, preferably in business, politics, government, investigations or accountability journalism.
• Proven ability to break news and produce exclusive enterprise reporting.
• Strong source-building and interviewing skills.
• Experience with public records, databases and financial documents.
• Ability to explain complex subjects clearly and authoritatively.
• Strong news judgment and understanding of audience interests.
• Experience with data journalism and investigative techniques is a plus.
• Ability to collaborate across newsroom teams and contribute to statewide coverage.
• Multimedia skills including video and social storytelling are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Break exclusive stories involving government, business, development, lobbying, campaign finance, economic power and influential decision-makers.
• Track major real estate and development projects, following the money behind transformative projects and public-private partnerships.
• Examine how political, business and civic leaders shape public policy, economic growth and community outcomes.
• Build and maintain a sophisticated source network that includes elected officials, executives, developers, investors, attorneys, lobbyists, nonprofit leaders and community advocates.
• Investigate campaign spending, government contracts, regulatory decisions and influence networks.
• Analyze public records, financial disclosures, corporate filings, campaign finance reports and property records.
• Produce accountability journalism that reveals who benefits, who is affected and what readers need to know.
• Collaborate with reporters across Florida to connect regional stories to statewide and national trends.
• Develop video, social and newsletter content that expands the reach and impact of key stories.
• Pursue stories from inception through aftermath, tracking consequences and holding institutions accountable over time.

Skills

Source-building

Interviewing

Data journalism

Multimedia storytelling

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in journalism or related field

Job description

Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK seeks a Money, Power & Influence Reporter based in Miami to cover South Florida’s powerful individuals, institutions, and networks. You’ll produce exclusive enterprise reporting, break news, and explain complex financial, political, and business issues for a broad audience across markets.

The beat spans Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, with a focus on government transparency, real estate, wealth, and influence.