Reporter, Well

Well is looking for a creative and ambitious reporter to produce outstanding service and enterprise journalism that will help Times readers live healthier lives. The Well desk offers science-based guidance on a range of topics including mental and physical health, family, relationships and wellness trends. In this role, you'll cover news about nutrition, sleep, fitness, aging, chronic illness, cancer, heart health and functional medicine. You will also write in-depth and heavily-researched service pieces to help readers make decisions about their own health. Your stories may take the form of traditional service and reported articles as well as explainers, visual-first stories, reported features, enterprise and profiles. You should be able to connect the dots and spot trends before our competitors get to them. You should be able to read studies, talk to researchers and summarize findings for a lay audience. You should be willing to experiment, to engage with readers via social media, and offer deeply reported advice on how readers can live richer, healthier lives. You should be truly passionate about health and wellness. You should have tons of ideas, a track record of breaking news, and the desire to be the go-to source for a health-obsessed audience.