Axios Reporter at Axios DC covers local news in Washington, D.C., producing daily newsletters and leveraging AI tools. The role focuses on delivering trustworthy, audience-first news content.
Responsibilities
Author a daily Axios newsletter featuring insights and scoops for the D.C. audience
Leverage AI for reporting and newsletter production
Write conversationally in Axios' Smart Brevity style
Help build Axios Local and shape product evolution
Qualification
Writing conversationallyWorthy of your timeExperience covering news in DIdeas
Required
Authoring a daily Axios newsletter that features insights and scoops that matter most to the D.C. audience
A command of the local market along with the sourcing necessary to illuminate busy readers
Experimenting with and leveraging AI for reporting and newsletter production
Writing conversationally, in Axios' Smart Brevity style
Helping build Axios Local and shape how the product evolves
Worthy of your time: Ideal candidates will operate with a startup mentality and an entrepreneurial spirit, and have the following skills:
Experience covering news in D.C.
Excellent sources and ability to create new ones
Ability to break news and create conceptual scoops
Omnivorous curiosity about your hometown, no matter how long you've lived there
Ideas, ideas, ideas
Comfort flexing some voice and personality in your writing
