Retail Investing Beat Reporter

Dow Jones; New York (NY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

MarketWatch is seeking an ambitious Markets and Investing Reporter in New York to help readers make sense of fast-moving financial markets. You’ll explain what moves mean for individual investors with clear, compelling storytelling.

You’ll break news, develop enterprise reports and cultivate sources across Wall Street to reveal trends and provide actionable insights for readers and subscribers. Collaboration across the newsroom and a focus on accessible language will help millions of readers

Qualifications

• 3–5 years experience covering financial markets, investing or business journalism.
• Strong knowledge of financial markets, investing products, market structure and macroeconomic concepts.
• Excellent news judgment and ability to identify distinctive story angles from market movements, economic data, research and public reports.
• Proven ability to explain sophisticated financial concepts in clear language for everyday investors.
• Experience developing sources across Wall Street, academia, government, financial services and the investing community.
• Habit of connecting seemingly unrelated developments into meaningful and credible stories that help subscribers make smarter decisions.
• Excellent writing skills, meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to reader-first journalism.

Responsibilities

• Cover breaking developments across financial markets with urgency, accuracy and context.
• Explain market moves, economic data and geopolitical developments in language that is accessible to a broad investing audience.
• Break news and develop enterprise stories uncover investing trends before they become widely recognized.
• Become deeply embedded in the retail investing community to understand emerging trends, evolving trading behavior and the most pressing individual investing questions.
• Cultivate relationships with traders, portfolio managers, strategists, economists, academics, regulators and individual investors to generate original reporting.
• Explain how developments in market structure — from options activity and exchange rules to new trading platforms and investing products — affect individual investors.
• Track innovations in investing, including digital assets, prediction markets, brokerage platforms and new investment products, helping readers distinguish meaningful developments from short-lived hype.
• Use market data, charts and public filings to identify trends, support reporting and communicate complex ideas clearly.
• Collaborate with colleagues across the newsroom to produce impactful journalism.
• Pitch creative story ideas across multiple timelines, from breaking news to ambitious enterprise reporting.
• Experience with podcasting or video storytelling is a plus.

Skills

Markets knowledge

Source development

Strong writing

News judgment

Storytelling clarity

Enterprise reporting

Macro concepts

Job description

MarketWatch is seeking an ambitious Markets and Investing Reporter in New York to help readers make sense of fast-moving financial markets. You’ll explain what moves mean for individual investors with clear, compelling storytelling.

You’ll break news, develop enterprise reports and cultivate sources across Wall Street to reveal trends and provide actionable insights for readers and subscribers. Collaboration across the newsroom and a focus on accessible language will help millions of readers