Congressional Reporter Covering Military and Veterans Issues

Requisition Number: 1296

Position Title: Contractor_G01

External Description:

Congressional Reporter

Military.com, a Monster company, is seeking a Congressional Reporter covering Military and Veteran issues. We’re looking for a well-sourced and savvy reporter to cover Congress on a full-time basis for Military.com, including the military and veterans committees, relevant legislation, the congressionally chartered veterans service organizations and policy-focused aspects of the Department of Veterans Affairs. This reporter must have relationships with key congressional offices and other stakeholders or know how to develop and maintain them to stay ahead of the story on a beat filled with knowledgeable and competitive journalists. The ideal candidate will be hungry for news and have a track record of landing scoops and an ability to develop and hone a keen sense of what our readers care most about. We need a reporter who can learn on the job, who wants to be an expert on their beat and who won’t be satisfied with following the crowd or waiting for news to show up in their inbox. It’s also key to be agile: this job sometimes requires the ability to process and report news speedily and accurately, in competition with world-class reporters who are trying to beat you to the punch. Not least, we’re looking for someone who is collegial and collaborative, as reporters from different beats will sometimes work together to develop a story. It’s also crucial to have high standards and personal integrity. The people and organizations you write about may not always like your stories, but they should respect you as a straight shooter who strives for accuracy and fairness.

Responsibilities 

• Produce 2-3 stories per day representing a mix of breaking news, enterprise and daily reporting.
• Develop a deep network of source relationships to be competitive and uncover exclusives on a challenging beat in which gatekeepers are stingy with information.
• Learn the intricacies of military pay and benefits policies and be able to find stories in dense congressional documents and legislation.
• Have an eye for the real-life impacts of policy and look for opportunities to tell stories outside Capitol Hill.
• Work very occasional nonstandard hours to cover breaking news and lengthy congressional markups once or twice a year.
• Create engaging and innovative ways to tell and visualize data-heavy stories.

Job Requirements

• Solid experience reporting at a daily news publication
• Knowledge and understanding of AP style
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Deadline-oriented and comfortable multi-tasking

About Monster

Monster is a global leader in connecting people to jobs, wherever they are.  For more than 20 years, Monster has helped people improve their lives with better jobs, and employers find the best talent. Today, the company offers services in more than 40 countries, providing some of the broadest, most sophisticated job seeking, career management, recruitment and talent management capabilities.

Monster continues its pioneering work of transforming the recruiting industry with advanced technology using intelligent digital, social and mobile solutions, including our flagship website monster.com® and a vast array of products and services.

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Company Profile:

Monster (Randstad Group) is the worldwide leader in successfully connecting people to job opportunities. From the web, to mobile, to social, we help companies find people with customized solutions and we use the world's most advanced technology to match the right people to the right job.

We've made it our mission to help companies find better candidates. And nobody brings more cutting-edge tools to help them do just that than Monster. Whatever their needs are, we have the products and technologies to build a bespoke solution for our clients, to help them find #TheRightFit.

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