Senior Business Reporter: Greater Seattle

The Center Square seeks to hire a full-time business reporter dedicated to covering the business climate in greater Seattle and statewide, with a particular focus on King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties.

This position fills a critical gap in Washington’s media landscape: serious, non-partisan reporting on how taxation and regulation affect job creators, workers, and economic opportunity.

The beat will include:

• Investigating and explaining how state and local taxation affects business operations and employment
• Report on regulatory burdens and their real-world impact on small and large employers
• Daily coverage of developments in the wider business community with a an eye toward the intersection of business and regulation, with some regular drumbeat of results from companies that matter to the area.
• Cover workforce challenges, personnel costs, and labor policy from a taxpayer-centric perspective
• Develop enterprise stories showing the human impact of business-hostile policies
• Report on how the regulatory and taxing environment also impacts the agriculture, healthcare, logistics and distribution, service-related and transportation industries
• Produce video interviews with business owners explaining challenges they face
• Track business relocations, closures, and expansions, and explain why they’re happening

The ideal candidate brings:

• Deep understanding of how regulations and taxation impact business operations
• Proven ability to analyze complex policies and calculate real-world compliance and tax costs
• Track record covering regulatory agencies, legislative processes, and corporate strategy
• Established source network among business leaders, regulators, and policymakers

The Washington state senior business reporter will produce 5-7 weekly, original, timely, and relevant stories examining business developments through our signature taxpayer-accountability lens – quantifying hidden costs, tracking business flight to competitive states, and investigating whether government interventions achieve stated goals. About two thirds of the job will be daily reporting; one third will be deeper dive enterprise and investigative reporting.

The Center Square’s reporting reaches 141 million Americans through 1,360+ media outlets that republish the work, making this position the Pacific Northwest's authoritative voice on how government policies impact economic vitality. While others cover press releases, the business reporter will follow the money from ratepayers to rate cases, from taxpayers to green subsidies, from small businesses to regulatory compliance costs.

This role matters because Washington faces critical competitiveness challenges

Join The Center Square to practice genuine authentic and original government-accountability journalism, holding government accountable while serving citizens and job creators who bear the costs of policy experiments.

Send cover letter, resume and work samples to jobs@thecentersquare.com.