Americas Industry and Budgets Reporter

Janes enables militaries, governments and defence companies to make critical decisions. Our expert-driven tradecraft, developed over 125 years, combined with human-machine teaming, delivers assured open-source intelligence across military capabilities and order of battle, equipment, events, countries, companies and markets.

Linking millions of assured data points, Janes data model creates a framework of interconnected open-source defence intelligence. This allows our customers to integrate all relevant data and connections into a single intelligence environment to deliver a more complete and accurate answer. Using Janes, our customers can use their scarce resource more effectively, to get to better decisions with higher confidence, more quickly.

Janes is recruiting a Washington, DC-based reporter to generate news, analysis, and features covering defence industry and budgets in the Americas. The successful candidate will have experience delivering high-quality news and exclusive analysis, and an understanding of military-industrial affairs. They will work closely with a local team of regional defence journalists and a global team of subject matter experts.

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE AT JANES

• Write high-quality news, analysis, and features about defence industry and budgets in the Americas.

• Develop, pitch, and execute strong analysis and feature ideas.

• Commission and edit news stories from across the Americas region, serving as Janes point of contact for regional freelancers’ industry/budgets content.

• Source and develop data-driven news stories and analysis.

• Attend defence exhibitions and conferences as a news reporter and Janes ambassador.

• Maintain a network of key regional contacts.

THE IDEAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE FOR THIS ROLE

• Experience as a reporter is essential, and a background in military-industrial and corporate affairs and/or M&A reporting is a distinct advantage.

• Excellent written and spoken English are essential, along with the ability to sharply edit and peer review copy (including from freelancers for whom English is a second language).

• Strong news sense and judgment, with the ability to independently generate story ideas and deliver them with minimal oversight.

• Ability to write accurate and unbiased copy concisely and quickly.

• Proven record of meeting newsroom deadlines.

• A strong work ethic, team spirit, and organisational skills.