Sr. Reporter, Distressed Debt

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About the Role:

As a member of the Editorial team, you will spend each day immersed in the private markets, aiming to help our customers be better investors, advisors, and market participants. The work you will do plays a direct role in the evolution of the industry!  

Everyone on our team is supported by a flexible work environment and a culture that promotes curiosity, collaboration, and professional development. We prioritize recognition and respect across all roles and have a high level of camaraderie. The fast-growing nature of our organization provides ample opportunity to advance in your career and explore what interests you.  

As we continue investing in the talent of our group, our coverage has evolved rapidly over multiple industries and geographies. Our insights are routinely cited by top-tier publications and sought after by prominent players in the financial markets. In addition to publishing timely market insights, we also partner closely with our Product, Engineering, and Data Operations teams to continually enhance our datasets and develop unique tools that have a material impact on our customers’ workflows. There is no better time to join us!  

The Sr. Reporter, Distressed Debt is responsible for covering, in real-time and in-depth, developing deal and trend stories impacting distressed and defaulted segment of the leveraged finance asset class, with special emphasis on leveraged loans and high yield bonds. This role will use their knowledge of the debt markets and ability to develop and maintain market sources to generate compelling content for our audience. 

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Generate detailed news stories, on daily basis, illuminating the distressed/restructuring space in the US leveraged finance markets, with an emphasis on debt issuers facing or entering the restructuring process, and how those companies go about managing this process (liability management exercises, payment defaults)
• Generate, over the longer-term, trend-based stories on the distressed/restructuring market space, illustrating the potential direction of the overall market
• Help formulate, with LCD Managing Editors and Editor-in-Chief, the scope and focus of LCD’s restructuring/distressed debt coverage and coverage strategy
• Generate detailed news stories, as market activity dictates, on asset classes and topics related to distressed restructuring space/LCD’s core markets (ie, CLO/CLO secondary markets, etc.)
• Build and maintain a network of market sources covering all aspects of the leveraged debt restructuring market, including deal advisers, investors, lawyers, traders
• Work collaboratively with the LCD editorial team to provide market insight on the broader leveraged debt markets (new issues, trading levels and activity, etc.)
• Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors
• Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelors’ degree preferred
• 4+ years’ experience reporting on and/or analyzing the debt markets, as described above, or related experience
• Exceptional attention to detail with ability to work with data-intensive content
• Ability to generate accurate and relevant news copy and content on a daily basis
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to multi-task and work e