Family Office Reporter

Overview

In this role you will cover the family office ecosystem, reporting on investment strategies, governance, and operations for single- and multi-family offices. You will help build and shape Crain’s P&I family office product, setting editorial priorities and voice. You’ll develop a strong source network and produce timely news, analysis, and feature coverage for both Pensions & Investments and the new product.

This position blends reporting excellence with editorial product development, offering opportunities to shape newsletters, reports, and events while engaging with a sophisticated readership.

• competitive benefits
• retirement plan savings contributions
• bonus opportunities
• location: New York
• in-office presence 3 days/week

• Cover family offices and related professionals across the private wealth ecosystem
• Break news and craft enterprise stories on investment strategy, governance, and operating models
• Help build and steer the new family office product, including editorial voice and priorities
• Develop and maintain a strong source network within family offices and related institutions
• Write daily news, analysis, explainers, and longer-form features for P&I and the new product
• Frame stories around audience need and relevance
• Collaborate with editors to grow the product through newsletters, alerts, data coverage, and events
• Attend industry conferences and represent Crain with readers and sources

• Reporting experience in financial journalism, institutional investing, private wealth, family offices, asset management, or alternatives
• Strong news judgment and deadline discipline
• Ability to explain complex investment, financial, and regulatory topics clearly
• Proven source-building skills
• Familiarity with family office investing and operations, private markets, wealth management or institutional portfolios preferred
• Experience contributing to newsletters, special reports, events, data coverage or multimedia products is a plus
• Interest in launching and developing an audience-focused editorial product
• Ability to work collaboratively with editors and colleagues while taking ownership of a high-priority coverage area

• curiosity
• source-driven
• clear communication
• experience with newsletters and data-driven coverage
• multimedia product development
• event programming experience