Deputy Team Lead

You will work with reporters from pitch to publication – coaching them, driving coverage, and producing high‑quality stories both short and long. Your work will be featured on our consumer platforms and create value for our customers across channels for legal, government and financial professionals on the Bloomberg Law and BGOV services and the Bloomberg terminal. You are on the front line of our coverage, producing daily and enterprise copy alongside some of the most talented reporters in the industry, and helping us elevate our coverage, break more news, and create a newsroom culture of excellence.

The hours for this job will coincide with a West Coast workday, so candidates who are willing to work similar hours are preferred.

• Produce stories that inform and delight our audiences.
• Coach reporters on breaking bigger stories, help select feature ideas, meet deadlines, and pitch videos and podcasts.

• Exceptional curiosity and news judgment to unpack complicated legal and government actions, and then help reporters make them interesting.
• Excellent editing and writing skills.
• High collaboration, the ability to manage change, influence others in the newsroom, and communicate with reporters and editors of various backgrounds and experience levels.
• Strong problem‑solving and decision‑making skills, along with the ability to juggle stories and meet tight newsroom deadlines.
• A self‑starter who sets high standards and leads by personal example.
• A bachelor’s degree is required.
• Five or more years of experience in journalism.

Bloomberg Industry Group maintains a continuing policy of non‑discrimination in employment. It is Bloomberg Industry Group’s policy to provide equal opportunity and access for all persons, and the Company is committed to attracting, retaining, developing, and promoting the most qualified individuals without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or maternity/parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law (“Protected Characteristic”).

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