Political Reporter
TPM Media LLC, Washington, DC USA
Salary: The salary range is $85,000-$110,000 annually. Benefits include health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), and three weeks paid vacation per year.
Salary min: $80,000.00
Salary max: $110,000.00
Level: Experienced
Duration: Full Time
TalkingPointsMemo.com, the respected pioneer of online political news currently celebrating its 25th year of publishing, is expanding its reporting team.
TPM is looking to fill immediately a new position for a political reporter who will help to confront the current political moment more robustly.
The preferred candidate will be a political reporter with significant experience who is skilled at their craft; who understands the political moment, the underlying power dynamics, and the lurch away from democracy; and who can expertly navigate the strong currents coursing through American politics.
The ideal candidate will be able to hit the ground running and immediately contribute to TPM’s highest-value coverage areas: the Trump II presidency, the erosion of democracy, the historic ascension of a reactionary right-wing.
This is a DC or NYC position, with a slight preference for DC.
The salary range is $85,000-$110,000 annually. Benefits include health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), and three weeks paid vacation per year.
This is a position covered under the Writers Guild of America East Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Women and minority candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Please send resume and cover letter to jobs@talkingpointsmemo.com (include the subject line: “Job App: Political Reporter”).
Founded during the 2000 Florida recount by Josh Marshall, TPM brings a scrappy, smart, and sophisticated approach to covering American politics. It has long had an outsized influence on national political coverage and public discourse. With a membership-based business model, TPM has enjoyed financial stability, resilience, and growth despite the turmoil in journalism and publishing.
About TPM Media LLC
Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture.
We are particularly focused on reporting on abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust. Our reporters have exposed scandals and driven coverage of major news stories across multiple administrations. TPM was the first web-native news organization to win the George Polk award for Journalism, for coverage of the 2007 U.S. Attorneys Firing Scandal. Our coverage of President Bush’s drive to privatize Social Security won numerous awards. TPM was one of the first news outlets to examine then-candidate Trump’s ties to Russia and later led reporting on his pressure campaign in Ukraine. When former U.S. Rep. Todd Akin opined about abortion in cases of legitimate rape,” TPM was the outlet to make it news.
We also devote extensive resources to critical policy stories, like the decade-long GOP effort to repeal Obamacare, voter suppression, and the more recent push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
We keep close tabs on the political fringe — militias, white nationalists, conspiracy theorists and more — because we believe they are greater drivers of American politics than mainstream news coverage allows.
Headquartered in New York City with a bureau in Washington D.C., TPM was founded in 2000 by Josh Marshall.