Reporters wanted
Join our team at ClearHealthCosts, where we’re disrupting the health-care marketplace.
Our mission: tell people what things cost in health care. It’s the last big remaining opaque market: no one knows what stuff costs, and we’re here to change that
Our primary tools: shoe-leather reporting, crowdsourcing, investigative journalism and data diving, on our home site and also in partnership with big news organizations. Here’s one example of a partnership.
What we seek: Entrepreneurial self-starter. Proven record of accuracy, curiosity, tenacity. Public records and data expertise helpful. No health-care background required, but an interest in the topic is necessary.
What we offer: Deep knowledge of the health-care marketplace. High visibility. A world-changing journalism startup. Great opportunity to join us as we grow.
The ideal candidate will also have some other skills, including but not limited to these:
- Data skills, including managing and sorting data
- Excel
- Telephone interview skills
- Familiarity with WordPress, MailChimp; knowledge of Google, Clicky, WordPress or other analytics
- Social media expertise–Tweetdeck or other Twitter client, Facebook etc.
- Other tech skills including software development, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS
- Video
Proudly based in New York City. Temporary and full-time for now. Could grow into something more.
Please e-mail a note telling us why you’d be great for this job, with a resume or link to online resume, and six pieces of your writing reflecting range and breadth, to jeanne@clearhealthcosts.com
Background
Here’s a little bit about what we do, on the Harvard Business Review/New England Journal of Medicine website; our home site, here at clearhealthcosts.com, also has a blog, which you can find here.
Our primary tools: shoe-leather reporting, crowdsourcing and data diving. We also partner with big news organizations: NOLA.com I The Times-Picayune and WVUE FOX 8 Live in New Orleans; The Philadelphia Inquirer, philly.com, The Daily News and 6ABC Action News in Philadelphia; WLRN public radio in Miami; WUSF public radio in Tampa-St. Petersburg; KQED public radio in San Francisco; KPCC public radio in Los Angeles; WHYY public radio in Philadelphia; and MedPage Today in New York to collect data and create great journalism. Here is an example of our partnerships.
Here’s our press page. Here’s a description of our partnerships across the nation.
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Other careers
Separate from this posting: If you’re interested in joining our team, please contact us at jobs@clearhealthcosts.com. We are adding team members as we grow!
We will be posting other career opportunities soon.