National News Reporter III - General Consumer News Reporter

USA TODAY’s Money & Consumer team is seeking a reporter to cover general consumer news, focusing on how people can save, spend, grow and protect their money, including trending news and enterprise around consumer habits. This reporter should be on the cutting edge of consumer trends and aim to be an authority on consumer news. Coverage areas may range from the changes across retail landscape from a consumer perspective, health and medical consumer issues and news, protecting privacy, navigating scams and hacks as well as how-to’s on navigating smart shopping and spending. Digital and audience acumen is critical, including strong familiarity with SEO and social media best practices along with a passion for connecting with and telling stories for diverse audiences. The successful candidate may be called upon to represent USA TODAY through media and other appearances and will need to be a team player who is eager to work with colleagues in developing video, audio and interactive content to create engaging, multifaceted packages for our readers.