Reporter

Summary

Join Axios, an award-winning news company, as a Reporter covering Kansas City, MO. This role focuses on creating impactful local news content using Axios's Smart Brevity approach. You will author a daily newsletter, build Axios Local, collaborate across teams, and bring stories to life across multiple platforms. The ideal candidate possesses strong reporting skills, deep local market knowledge, and a passion for innovative news coverage. The starting salary is $60,000-$90,000, and Axios offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Experience covering news in Kansas City, Mo
• Excellent sources and ability to create new ones
• Strong reporting skills and comfort working in a fast-paced news environment and on deadline
• Ability to decipher data, break news and create conceptual scoops
• Deep knowledge of the local market, including politics, business, and/or social issues
• Background in understanding local and national news coverage more broadly
• A belief in and dedication to writing in Smart Brevity

Responsibilities

• Author a daily Axios newsletter that features insights and scoops that matter most to the Kansas City, Mo. audience
• Command the local market along with the sourcing necessary to illuminate busy readers about the community where they live
• Help build Axios Local and shape how the product evolves
• Collaborate across teams at Axios to create stories that have impact and bring stories to life across multiple platforms (online, video, broadcast, or podcast)

Preferred Qualifications

• Embody an entrepreneurial spirit
• A passion for Axios’ mission

Benefits

• 401(k) with employer match
• Robust PPO and High Deductible health insurance options on the Blue Cross Blue Shield network
• Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for the high deductible health plan option
• Dental and vision coverage
• Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
• Generous vacation policy, plus holidays
• One mental health day per quarter
• Annual learning and development stipend
• $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
• Tele-mental health services through Headspace
• OneMedical membership, including tele-health services
• Personal health advocacy resources through HealthAdvocate
• Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
• Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies
• Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers
• Virtual company-sponsored social events
• A strong and positive work environment
• A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture