About The Role

We're looking for a Senior Private Equity Reporter to join PEI Group's welcoming, diverse, and growing team based here in New York.

The successful candidate will cover the fast-paced world of private equity for PEI Private Equity in the US. This position is weighted heavily toward original reporting and involves breaking news, writing exclusives, identifying and analysing trends, as well as producing longer-form features, profiles and columns.

The Senior Reporter will aim to produce content that leads with analysis and informed perspective. This will involve collaborating with editors on ideas, sourcing, and story structures with an eye to delivering valuable information that consistently speaks to our core audience of private equity professionals and advisors.

The Senior Reporter will also take the lead on some projects and will demonstrate leadership in other ways as part of a team of reporters, including potentially editing articles and helping to train reporters with less experience.

Other responsibilities will include writing e-newsletters and articles that profile firms and people, identify and analyse trends in PE transactions and other community developments, including key personnel moves. At all times, the goal is to seek out the impact of those developments rather than merely recounting the news.

For more information about PEI Private Equity, please visit https://www.pei.group/platforms/private-equity/

The successful candidate will:

• Produce at least three articles each week consistent with our mission of delivering exclusive news, analyses, and feature articles
• Break news and deliver scoops frequently
• Author the e-newsletter on a regular basis, beginning with once per week and growing in frequency over time.
• Conduct interviews and actively develop relationships with a network sources, especially private equity partners, investment bankers and other deal advisors, and readers
• Incorporate internal and external data into stories as context and in some instances to inform the angle of the story
• Communicate and collaborate with colleagues across PEI's Private Equity group as appropriate to optimize content planning, coordination and execution
• Have a strong contact book of private equity practitioners, investment bankers and others in the industry
• Attend industry events (PEI and external, in-person or virtual) and represent the publication as an ambassador. Participate as moderator or other comparable role at such events. Such activities may include travel.
• Assist where necessary with aspects of the content production process, including sourcing PEI data and research, optimizing for SEO/AEO, and identifying and sourcing images for use with articles (photos, charts, etc)
• Share expertise with less experienced reporters on the team and company.
• In alignment with content strategy, use social media, primarily LinkedIn, to amplify content
• Use AI tools in alignment with company strategy and policy
• Potential duties may also include participation in podcasts, videos, etc.
• This role will involve gaining access to and publishing sensitive and privileged information. The reporter will be expected to understand and adhere to journalistic ethics and consult with editors on any potential conflicts.
• Produce tables and infographics

About You

Requirements

We are looking for someone who is

• Intellectually curious
• Flexible, able to adapt to change
• Deadline-oriented
• Self-motivated
• Comfortable multi-tasking
• Skilled in producing quality longer-form/enterprise journalism
• Strong attention to detail
• Keen to use data within their reporting

Qualification & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in business or financial reporting required
• Has a proven track record of delivering scoops and breaking news
• A proven authoritative voice in the private equity/M&A market and/or specific industry sectors within private equity/M&A.
• Familiarity with social media platforms, such as LinkedIn
• Computer proficiency, such as using the Microsoft Office Suite, online search tools, databases, WordPress, particularly for interrogating data via Excel or other tools

Personal Attributes

• Excellent people skills
• Excellent observation and judgment skills to extract and develop compelling stories
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Strong communication skills that manifest in quality interviewing and clear, concise writing
• Ability to stay organized and calm under pressure
• Strong attention to detail
• Desire to be part of a dynamic business with high growth expectations and global reach
• This role will involve gaining access to and publishing sensitive and privileged information. The reporter will be expected to understand and adhere to journalistic ethics and consult with editors on any potential conflicts.

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