Senior Investigative & Policy Reporter (Remote)

MemberSuite, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 77,000 - 104,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Six weeks paid vacation

Healthcare premium reimbursement

Job summary

Remapping Debate is seeking a senior investigative reporter to craft deeply reported pieces on national and New York City public policy. The role is fully remote, with travel to New York for in-person interviews as needed, and editor-led guidance to shape each story.

The position starts at $90,000 annually, includes six weeks of paid vacation, and full employer reimbursement of health care premiums for you and eligible dependents.

Qualifications

• Strong ability to conduct in-depth investigative reporting on public policy topics.
• Comfort with challenging interview techniques and rigorous fact-checking.
• Experience interpreting legal, regulatory, and governmental documents.

Responsibilities

• Write deeply reported stories (typically 2,500 to 3,500 words) on national and NYC-based policy issues.
• Work with editors to refine angles and ensure rigorous, ethical reporting.
• Cover domestic public policy across housing, health care, education, taxation, and civil rights.

Skills

Interviewing

Document analysis

Investigative reporting

Policy reporting

Job description

Senior investigative and policy reporter

Remapping Debate is looking for a highly experienced reporter to join us on a full-time basis. You would be writing deeply reported (typically 2,500 to 3,500 word) stories on national and NYC-based issues. You wouldnotbe on the mind-destroying, soul-destroying, body-destroying treadmill of cranking out multiple pieces a day. The position is fully remote, but you’d have to be able to come to New York easily for when in-person interview are needed. (Necessary travel other than that is employer-paid.)

Compensation and benefits

$90,000to start.

Six weeksof paid vacation.

Full employer reimbursement of healthcare premiums(up to the level of the “New York State of Health” Marketplace Platinum Plan we’ve benchmarked). That’s not just for you; it’sfor you and, as applicable, spouse or domestic partner, and children.

What we’re looking for

You must be willing to push interviewees hard (though that might make them less willing to talk to you next time), slog through documents in some cases, and deal with an editor whose sins include saying things like, “I know that’s interesting and newsworthy, but it’s not the specific story we want probed.” Plus which, the editor title is not nominal: I would be closely editing your work notwithstanding all your years of experience.

The stories will be on domestic public policy only, across a wide range of topics, including housing, health care, education, taxation, market failures and successes, regulatory failures and successes, identarianism, immigration, law, justice, civil rights, and public safety.

We will often be looking to reframe a question from “what is adequate?” to “what is optimal?” Or from a universe of current and practices to an exploration of alternatives (those tried in the U.S. in the past; those tried elsewhere, past or present; and those that have so far only been imagined).

You have to be sufficiently heterodox to be comfortable asking the kind of questions many outlets find taboo (discussions of education policy come immediately to mind). Likewise, if, political pretending, demonizing, fetishizing, and romanticizing, whether on right or left, 1 doesn’t drive you crazy,we’re unlikely to be a good fit.

1. So, for example, market fundamentalism on the right. Or the demonization of immigrants on the right (and its mirror image on the left: failing to seepeople, but rather Perfect Heroic Beings who must be treated in a fawning and adulatory manner). Or essentialism of different flavors on left and right.

Contact

Please email reporter at remappingdebate dot org with what I should know and what I should have. I will review promptly.

Be assured that all communications (as well as any follow-up discussions) will be treated as strictly confidential.

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