The Company

Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 300,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 13,000 people in 185 locations around the world.

The Role

Bloomberg is seeking an experienced reporter for its Washington, D.C., bureau who can break exclusive news and generate sophisticated enterprise on security issues involving transportation. What are the latest technologies to keep flyers safe? How is the government patrolling the nation¿s ports? What is being done to improve safety on public transportation? The successful candidate must be able to generate investigative, watchdog stories about this key area of national policy, be comfortable with writing on deadline and have an ability to work with colleagues across disciplines in a collegial, team environment. Experience covering federal regulatory agencies is helpful, but not mandatory. A successful applicant will have, or have the ability to develop, sources within Congress, the White House, and federal agencies.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or the equivalent
• Experience working in a real-time news environment
• Minimum of three years of transportation journalism experience
• Minimum of three to five years of business journalism experience
• Ability to write quickly, concisely and accurately under deadline pressure
• Ability to source within Congress and the White House as well as in federal agencies
• Knowledgeable about the economy, financial markets and business with experience covering government
• An entrepreneurial and energetic approach to the job
• A good communicator, collaborator and team player
• A curious mind and a scrappy passion for reporting
• Demonstrable attention to detail and organizational skills
• Knowledge of the government, economy, financial markets and industry is essential