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.
Bloomberg has created a new web-based information product that will report on, analyze and quantify the impact of government actions on business and industry. It brings the same unparalleled level of fact-based, objective reporting and analysis to policymaking as it has provided to the financial community for the past 27 years.

The Role

Bloomberg is seeking an experienced Health Care Reporter in its Washington, D.C., office. This reporter will cover health care policy from the legislative, regulatory and business perspectives, ranging from Capitol Hill to the FDA. They will focus on reporting and analyzing the business implications of government actions. The successful applicant should have a proven ability to source within Congress and the White House as well as in federal agencies.
The applicant should also be knowledgeable about the economy, financial markets and business. Applicants should have the ability to produce breaking news stories under real-time deadline pressure in a team environment, even as they regularly develop sophisticated, exclusive enterprise and analytic pieces. A minimum of three to five years of business journalism experience is preferred.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent experience
• Experience working in a real-time news environment
• Minimum of three years of health care journalism experience
• Ability to write quickly, concisely and accurately under deadline pressure
• Proven ability to source within Congress and the White House
• Experience covering government and business
• Experience working on Capitol Hill or at a federal health-care agency is a plus
• 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