Senior News Writer, Wealthsimple Media

Senior News Writer, Wealthsimple Media BUILD SOMETHING PEOPLE LOVE Wealthsimple's mission is to help everyone achieve financial freedom – by making financial services simple, transparent, and low-cost. We're Canada's largest fintech, trusted by over 3 million clients with more than $100 billion in assets. We move fast, we own our work, and we care deeply about the people using our products. If that sounds like you, keep reading. We're proud of what we've built — and we're just getting started. Read our Culture Manual https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/culture and learn more about how we work https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/careers. ABOUT THE TEAM TLDR is Canada’s most-read business newsletter, with 4.5 million subscribers. Each week, TLDR educates and informs Canadians about business, finance, and the world of money through a summary of the week’s biggest news stories and sharp in-house analysis. Our scope is broad. We’ve published pieces on how your brain tricks you into making bad trades https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/trading-bias, bold ideas for boosting Canada’s housing supply https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/fixing-the-housing-crisis, why gold prices are surging https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/gold, and a million other financial topics. You can view the full archive here http://tldr-archive.wealthsimple.com/. In 2024, TLDR became the first Canadian newsletter to win a Webby Award, beating out CNN, Scott Galloway’s No Mercy / No Malice, and The Hustle for the Best Business, News, & Tech Newsletter. TLDR is made by Wealthsimple Media, the independent editorial arm of financial-technology company Wealthsimple. Over the years, the team has launched a number of editorial properties in addition to TLDR, including Wealthsimple Magazine https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine and the TLDR Podcast https://linkin.bio/tldr. It has published essays by David Sedaris https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/david-sedaris-money-diaries, Karen Russell https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/karen-russell, Rembert Browne https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/rembert-browne, and Nico Walker https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/nico-walker-money-diaries, among other acclaimed writers, and featured interviews with celebrities such as Anthony Bourdain, Kim Kardashian, Matty Matheson, ARKK’s Cathie Wood, and Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist Matthew Desmond. ABOUT THE ROLE Wealthsimple Media intends to hire a senior news writer to help run TLDR. We want someone who can own the voice of the newsletter and make it their own — and wants to be something of a star. We have a large platform, and we want you to use it to build a name for yourself (and the newsletter) — not unlike what Andrew Ross Sorkin has done with DealBook, to name one very, very famous example. You don’t have to be the next Sorkin, but we want a writer who can attract and build an audience. The TLDR team is obsessive about publishing the planet’s most interesting, useful, entertaining, and accurate money content. The senior news writer needs to have the ambition, smarts, and writing chops to make the newsletter better than it already is and to help expand the TLDR brand. We’re looking for a very specific journalist for this role. A deep knowledge of finance or business would be a plus, but it’s not absolutely required. What is required is strong reporting, deep curiosity, heaps of energy — and the ability to write with style, wit, and clarity. We want a writer who’s freakishly curious about money and the world and is eager to share the most interesting stuff they find with readers, and can do so in a way that’s fun to read. The writer should be something of a polymath. And by that we mean the writer should be able to deliver incisive analysis of front-page news just as well as he or she can unpack fintwit’s latest obsession, explain a chart showing AI’s circular deals https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... (truncated, view full listing at source)