Marketplace Correspondent

This is a Full Time Job

Position Summary:

Marketplace is looking for a correspondent. The ideal candidate has proven audio and video reporting abilities, and a passion for covering business and financial news in Marketplace’s explanatory and accessible style.

This means:
• Developing a truly audience-first approach to reporting and production
• Producing work that succeeds across platforms and formats
• Increasing our video and visual storytelling capabilities
• Collaborating more effectively across shows, platforms, and teams
• Prioritizing journalism that is immersive, memorable, and worth people’s time

A correspondent will cover daily stories and features on subjects from corporate news to consumer behavior, housing to the changing workforce, macroeconomic trends to financial markets.

This position sits in the collective bargaining agreement between MPR and Screen Actors Guild—American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (“SAG-AFTRA”).

Location: Remote

Application Process: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Application Deadline: Open until filled.

Position Responsibility:
• Pitch and report ideas for daily news items, features and digital elements for Marketplace shows and digital platforms.
• Cover a variety of assignments including occasional hosting duties.
• Write sharp, concise, and accurate copy, for audio and video segments.
• Synthesize multiple strands of a story and produce under tight deadlines.
• Deliver substantive reports quickly on varied subjects as shows need.
• Consistently deliver stories with Marketplace’s writing style and pace.
• Gather information, audio and video for reports and programs.
• Assist other reporters, producers, and editors with information.
• Maintain a wide variety of sources.
• Other duties as assigned, including meetings and other events.

Required Experience and Education:
• BA degree or equivalent work experience.
• Correspondent Level: 15 years reporting or similar experience, national level experience preferred.

Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:

Correspondent Level:
• Breadth of general industry knowledge.
• Strong oral and written skills with ability to deliver originality in writing.
• Capacity to deliver quick turn-around reporting.
• Experience producing audio, video and digital stories.
• Ability to develop stories with multiple interviews, scene changes and strong knowledge of subject matter.
• Ability to deliver top-quality stories.
• Ability to set fresh directions in stories.
• Knowledge of various process approaches and necessary resources for a given project/assignment.
• Demonstrated reporting and production skills.
• Ability to maintain high journalistic standards under deadline pressure, including standards of balance and fairness.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Skill in creative use of sound, writing and storytelling.
• Ability to develop mastery of all recording and production equipment and techniques.
• National reporting experience

Preferred Skills and Experience:
• Radio reporting experience
• Knowledge of specific industries
• Digital production knowledge

Reporting to This Position: None

Physical Demands and Working Conditions:
• Ability to manage some work outside of standard office hours as needed.
• Physical Demands:
• Required to move about in an office environment and sit for extended periods of time.
• Required to move about in the community.
• Frequent use of hands for data entry/keystrokes and simple grasping.
• Working Conditions:
• Moderate noise level
• Occasional exposure to prevalent weather conditions.