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Hollywood News and Awards Reporter, Culture

The New York Times· Reporting
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New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA$113.3k - $125kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Reporter to cover movie awards season and broader Hollywood/Culture news, with emphasis on awards coverage, investigations, features, and multimedia storytelling. In-office role based in New York or Los Angeles, with night/weekend work and collaboration with Times editors.

Responsibilities

  • Cover the news and controversies of the movie awards season and pop culture, deliver investigations and enterprise stories, and write features about movies and how they impact audiences and society
  • Write the Projectionist awards season column and report live from the red carpet during the Oscars and other awards shows, as well as appearing in videos
  • Collaborate with visual editors on new story formats and multimedia, including reporter video and audio
  • Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world

Qualifications

  • 10 years of reporting experience in journalism, including breaking news and exclusives
  • Richly sourced in the entertainment industry in Hollywood across movies, television and pop culture
  • Superb communication skills and the ability to collaborate with a large team of editors and reporters
  • Creativity and a desire to experiment with innovative story formats
  • The ability to contextualize news in a broader context for our audiences, and follow with multiple next-day storylines
  • A self-starting go-getter, you must be able to independently source news and exclusives

Skills

Required:News reporting and investigationSource development and exclusives
Nice to have:Video storytelling

Benefits

  • variable pay such as an annual bonus and restricted stock
  • medical, dental and vision benefits
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
  • a company-matching 401(k) plan
  • employee stock purchase plan
  • paid vacation
  • paid sick days
  • paid parental leave
  • tuition reimbursement and professional development programs
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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