Business of Healthcare Reporter

Job Description:

The Boston Globe is looking for a smart, collaborative, and aggressive reporter to cover the health care, hospital, and life sciences industries in New England. This beat is among the biggest at the Globe, with hospital systems and biotech companies ranking among the region's largest employers, most crucial service providers, and highest-profile corporations.

The ideal candidate will be a dynamic, innovative journalist, ideally with experience covering business and/or health care, and skills for building trust with sensitive sources, breaking scoops, and telling fascinating stories. They will care about finding sources from diverse backgrounds and covering the health care industry’s impacts on patients and employees from marginalized communities. They will join our Business staff and work closely with several other health care reporters, so excellent communication and teamwork is critical. 

The beat encompasses a range of industries, from hospitals and health insurance to nursing homes, behavioral health, and biotech, where scientists create cutting-edge treatments that save lives but can also drive up costs. The ideal candidate will be able to build an array of trusted sources to break news, hold institutions accountable, and weave compelling narratives about the human side of health. We’re also looking for someone who can adeptly show how federal and state policy shifts ripple through New England’s health care industries.

Responsibilities:

• Build sources among frontline clinicians, researchers, executives, and experts. 
• Be creative and enterprising, see fresh angles to storylines everywhere. 
• Understand how to bring complex ideas to life for readers.
• Use audience metrics to help guide story selection, angles, and respond to readers’ interests.
• Balance a steady stream of daily news and ambitious enterprise stories.
• Be creative and enterprising, see fresh angles to storylines everywhere. 
• Stay cool under pressure from powerful institutions — and the tightest deadlines. 
• Collaborate. You’ll be part of a high-performing team that does its best work together. 

Qualifications: 

• 3 years journalism experience required.
• Experience working for a daily news organization or high-metabolism digital outlet preferred. 
• Business and/ or health care reporting experience preferred but not required. 
• Track record of building sources in challenging environments, breaking scoops, and executing high-level enterprise journalism.  
• Strong writer and comfortable with health care business concepts.
• An idea generator, a self-starter, and an eager collaborator. 
• A willingness to adapt and be audience-focused, with a curious mindset and a commitment to creating an inclusive work environment and cultivating a diverse range of sources.

The BGMP office is located in downtown Boston, near Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market, and is easily accessible by MBTA and commuter rail lines. This position is based in Boston, and candidates should be based in the area or willing to move.

This position is a union position covered by a collective bargaining agreement with the Boston Newspaper Guild.

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

EEO Statement: At Boston Globe Media, our mission is to empower, connect, and convene our communities with independent, trusted journalism and storytelling. We know a critical part of achieving this is by having a workforce that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive - like the communities we serve. Boston Globe Media is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes candidates and colleagues of all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and skills.