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Hey friend. Every Sunday random weekday (or so!), this dispatch helps you make better creative and strategic decisions, or talks about the innies and outties of independent consulting, or provides resources to help you do your best creative work. Anyway, hello, it’s good to see you. -Steve
We interrupt this email’s irregular programming to bring you this breaking alert: I’m hiring a business trends reporter.
If you can introduce me to someone qualified, or you are someone qualified, won’t you please drop me a line.
More on the open position below.
Before you ask: no, I’m not hiring a reporter for this newsletter. That would be silly!
Longtime subscribers may be aware, but newer friends may not, that one of the services I provide to clients is recruiting.
Specifically, I find talented creatives for brands, publishers, and sometimes agencies. I specialize in editors, reporters, content strategists, and creative executives.
I really enjoy doing this! Mostly because I’ve built products at brands, and launched publications, and staffed my own newsrooms, and run content for an agency. So I’ve first-hand experience of how to find the right people, why specific people will or won’t be good for a role, and what kind of staffing model works. Or doesn't work! Humans: what a mess, right?
If you or your company is looking to make a hire or hires, please get in touch.
On the the open role.
Hiring: Business Trends and Markets Reporter
The Observer (formerly The New York Observer) is looking for a reporter to cover money and markets. We’re seeking someone with a comprehensive knowledge of the global economy, Wall Street and finance, but who also is deeply curious about all things money, from DAOs to hedge funds to SPACs to the latest in fintech. This reporter will know about the stories everyone else is writing, but will understand where to find the stories no one else is writing.
At its core, this beat will be about power and the powerful, and understanding how money shapes the world we live in. We’re looking for a reporter who can see both the big picture and the connections that link companies to markets to investors to economies, but embraces the details. We’re looking for stories that go past the headlines and reveal bigger truths about how capitalism works today.
We’re looking for a reporter with
* At least four years of experience reporting about finance or related experience
* A facility with writing both breaking news and longer enterprise stories
* Fluid and authoritative writing
* The ability to develop sources and break news
* A comfort with data and experience building their own charts
* An eagerness to find and pitch story ideas daily
* Interest in contributing to or writing a newsletter
*High journalistic standards, attention to detail, and the skeptical heart of a fact-checker.
Our headquarters are in New York City, but we will consider remote candidates who live in the United States.
Apply be sending an email to Steve Bryant at sabryant@gmail.com. Please include links to your work.
About Observer
Formerly the New York Observer, the Observer has a rich history covering money, power and culture. Now under new ownership and management, the Observer is undergoing an ambitious relaunch that includes rebuilding its website and refocusing its coverage to be the essential source of news, data and insight about the powerful forces that shape our world.
Observer Media is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We strongly encourage candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. Observer Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.
Resources
A few links to helpful stuff I’ve made. Sharing is caring.
The Essential Guide to Frameworks
The Essential Laws of Creativity
The Creative Problem Solving Reading List
You don’t get it, you’re not the point
Make relationships, not things
How can I help?
This is a 100% organic, free-range, desktop-to-inbox newsletter devoted to helping you navigate uncertainty, seek the most interesting challenges, and make better creative decisions in marketing and beyond. Delivery at 6pm ET most Sundays when I remember I have a newsletter. Your host is Steve Bryant, who is for hire. He’d love to help you develop and deploy creative and bold ideas or staff your newsroom, content, or marketing project.
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