Gender, Policy, and Culture Reporter

What We Can Offer You:

This reporter will cover the intersection of power, culture, and politics through the lens of gender. From the fight over reproductive rights to fair pay to #MeToo and beyond, this reporter will break news on the biggest issues impacting women today. The ideal candidate will have a high news metabolism and be attuned to the national conversation around politics, the workplace, popular culture, and more. The reporter must also have demonstrated skills to write quick stories and deeply-reported articles that weave interviews, profile material, anecdotes, and exclusive details into compelling narratives. The reporter then must be able to effectively communicate those stories across TV, radio, and social media.

What You Get To Do:

• Research/write multiple items per week.

• Examine copy for accuracy, checking all factual information, quotes, and statistics.

• Interview newsmakers and tastemakers.

• Contribute to breaking news coverage of major events.

• Help produce additional video, photo, or social content as needed.

What You Bring To Us

• 5+ years’ experience at a national news organization

• College degree preferable

• An innate sense of what constitutes news of interest to the Daily Beast audience.

• Speed and excellent news judgment

• An obsessive interest in getting the news out quickly and helping readers understand the most important stories of the day, month, year.

• A voracious news diet and a hunger to work in a fast-paced newsroom.

Why Work Here

The Daily Beast is a globally recognized publication at IAC HQ in pristine Chelsea in New York City. Being part of IAC, we are able to provide you some of the best in benefits. We offer discretionary vacation (as in take what you need with approval for all exempt and non-guild employees), commuter subsidy, tuition reimbursement, 401(k) matching, subsidized gym membership, fully stocked kitchens with snacks and drinks, and excuses to celebrate all the time! Work for us and work for something spectacular!

More About Us

Why The Daily Beast? Every month, we reach over 20 million of the most affluent and influential readers on the web. We have the aesthetic, quality, and editorial chops of a traditional media company with the nimble, tech-savvy required to be a digital only publisher. We are the best in the business at content partnerships, and we prove it through home grown proprietary content tools that allow us to both predict what our partners should write about, but also measure the success of their content. This is a rare opportunity to work for a well-known, well respected digital brand that helps drive the national conversation from politics to fashion, or breaking news to culture.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.