Housing Reporter at Yahoo! Inc. in Reston, Virginia

Job Description:

Yahoo Finance is the world's #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions with confidence. Trusted by over 150M visitors globally each month, representing over $20 trillion dollars in investable assets, Yahoo Finance delivers high-quality real-time market data across desktop, mobile, and streaming platforms. With breaking news from thousands of sources, original editorial perspectives, objective analyst ratings and research, analytical charts and technical tools, personalized mobile alerts, and much more, Yahoo Finance equips investors with knowledge and insights to achieve financial freedom and greater prosperity.

A Little About Us:

The Personal Finance team includes both news and evergreen/SEO writers. The news crew produces coverage that, in addition to SEO-driven informational articles, assures that Yahoo Finance offers the broadest, most reliable and useful information about readers' financial decisions and opportunities. We're looking for enthusiastic, empathetic teammates who relish the challenge of helping people understand and navigate the uncertain financial world we live in.

A Lot About You:

Yahoo Finance is seeking an experienced reporter to build on and elevate our coverage of the housing market in a way that helps tell the story of everyday Americans' economic successes and struggles. For most of our audience, a house is their single biggest investment. We're looking for a journalist who can analyze economic and housing data and distill it into contextual stories that help readers understand the real estate landscape better. You should be a storyteller, with the curiosity and news instincts to find stories on the beat that no one else is telling.

Responsibilities:

• Research, report and write original news and enterprise stories about the housing market, including mortgage rates, housing trends, impacts of the recent Realtor commission settlement, how Americans are navigating the current high-rate environment, and more


• Regularly pitch well-formed, original ideas for coverage and accept feedback for shaping your ideas into stories, videos and graphics


• Collaborate on other personal finance news stories in the areas of taxes, insurance, consumer debt and credit, and other relevant news as it arises


• Deepen your subject matter expertise by reading current news and academic articles about housing topics and interviewing a wide array of experts, industry professionals and home buyers and sellers


• Contribute to Yahoo Finance's original video programming, either with on-camera appearances discussing your reporting, helping create long-form explainer videos or working with the production team on longer-lead features.


• Monitor performance metrics of your work to glean new story ideas and insights about the audience's interest and needs


• Collaborate with the evergreen team to find opportunities to add or contribute content

Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years as a professional journalist, including some time spent in daily journalism


• Experience covering personal finance and consumer issues. Housing experience is a major plus.


• Knowledge of financial markets and economic events and ability to contextualize them in your storytelling


• Superior writing skills and news judgment


• Agile, deadline-driven mentality and ability to turn around edits quickly


• Proven ability to conduct thoughtful, enlightening interviews with sources of all kinds in person and on the phone. (We have a strong bias against emailed quotes.) Experience in sourcing interviews and finding the best people to talk to for a given topic


• Absolute commitment to accuracy and putting readers first


• Strong understanding of SEO best practices and interplay with news coverage

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form ( www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html ) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

At Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion ( www.yahooinc.com/diversity/ ) page to learn more.

The compensation for this position ranges from $72,750.00 - $151,250.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don't require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you'll be given notice to make arrangements.

If you're curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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