Oct. 28, 2026 — Remapping Debate is looking to hire a national public policy reporter to join us on a full-time basis. You would be writing deeply reported stories (typically 2,500 to 3,500 words).
Compensation and Benefits
$125,000 - $150,000 to start.
Six weeks of paid vacation.
Full employer reimbursement of healthcare premiums (up to the level of the “New York State of Health” Marketplace Platinum Plan we’ve benchmarked). That’s not just for you; it’s for you and, as applicable, your spouse or domestic partner and children.
The position can be as remote or as in person as you wish.
What Does Remapping Debate do?
Remapping Debate is a domestic public-policy news website dedicated to in-depth reporting on critical issues shaping society. Remapping Debate’s reporting covers domestic public policy across a wide range of subjects, including housing, health care, education, taxation, market failures and successes, regulatory failures and successes, identarianism, immigration, law, justice, civil rights, and public safety.
We are often interested in reframing questions: from “what is adequate?” to “what is optimal?” Or from current practice to the range of alternatives — those tried in the United States in the past, those tried elsewhere, past or present, and those that so far have only been imagined.
What We Are Looking For
You must be willing to push interviewees hard (though that might make them less willing to talk to you next time). You will sometimes need to help a source imagine and speak to approaches and perspectives with which the source is unfamiliar. You will often need to resist a source pulling you away from the story to which you’ve been assigned toward one which more directly corresponds to the agenda of the source or the source’s organization (or which is simply less uncomfortable for the source to address).
You have to be intellectually curious, independent, and heterodox. Among other things, without those traits, you wouldn’t be comfortable asking the kind of questions many outlets find taboo (that is, questions on which Remapping Debate often focuses).
Likewise, if political pretending, demonizing, fetishizing, and romanticizing, whether on the right or the left, doesn’t drive you crazy, we’re unlikely to be a good fit.
Almost all of your work will be Original Reporting; the balance will be Story Repair (which is Original Reporting with a different point of departure). In all cases, it is important not only to be dogged, determined, and open-minded, but also adept at deploying an analytical lens.
Experience
Applicants should have extensive professional reporting experience.
See sidebar for how to apply.