Reporter

MIT Technology; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

MIT Technology Review is seeking an ambitious beat reporter to join our award-winning team. You will cover AI and security with enterprise reporting, scoops, and timely analysis, translating complex tech into clear, compelling stories.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and at least three years of reporting experience, curiosity and rigor, and the ability to collaborate across departments and represent the publication at conferences and events.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• At least 3 years of reporting experience in journalism, or equivalent.
• Strong reporting skills with curiosity and rigor.

Responsibilities

• Produce a steady drumbeat of stories that break news and cover major events on your beat.
• Pitch a mix of shorter and feature stories on your beat for the magazine.
• Write clearly, engagingly, and with storytelling techniques for digital media.
• Be an original thinker on your topics and propose new coverage approaches.
• Collaborate with colleagues in other departments and oversee content within your beat.
• Assist in planning and assigning themed print issues when relevant.
• Represent MIT Technology Review at conferences and to audiences.

Skills

Journalism

Reporting

Storytelling

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Job description

MIT Technology Review is looking for an ambitious beat reporter to join our award-winning team. We’re particularly interested in bolstering our AI and security coverage right now, but if you're an expert in another emerging technology beat that you think we’re missing then we’d love to hear about it. Eitherway, your reporting should make MIT Technology Review a must-read by combining scoops, deep enterprise reporting, timely stories about major news events, and sharp analysis. The successful candidate will bring curiosity and rigor to their reporting. They will both possess an understanding of the technologies they cover, and the businesses and people attempting to commercialize them. They will be excited about the promise technology offers to change the world, while remaining skeptical of its claims until they are proved out.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions**):

• Produce a steady drumbeat of stories that break news and cover the major events on your assigned beat. These should be a mix of incremental news, scoops, and enterprise coverage.
• Pitch a mix of shorter and feature stories on your beat for the magazine.
• Write in a clear, engaging, insightful and compelling way, making skilled and creative use of storytelling techniques, including the various forms enabled by digital media.
• Be an original thinker on their topic area, proposing new approaches to and themes of coverage.
• Work in close collaboration with colleagues in other departments (such as events) and oversee other content relevant to their coverage area, ensuring the highest journalistic standards.
• Play a role in the conception, planning, and assigning of themed print issues when these are on a topic within their beat
• Represent MITTR at conferences and to audiences or communities TR wants to reach.

Supervision Received:

The beat reporter will report to a desk editor. They will work alongside colleagues in other beats.

Supervision Exercised

N/A

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree in a related field required.

The role will require at least 3 years of reporting experience in journalism, or equivalent experience.

** To comply with regulations by the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), the principal duties in job descriptions must be essential to the job. To identify essential functions, focus on the purpose and the result of the duties rather than the manner in which they are performed. The following definition applies: a job function is essential if removal of that function would fundamentally change the job.