Sept. 29, 2026 — Remapping Debate is looking for an enterprising reporter to join us on a full-time basis. You would be writing deeply reported stories (typically 2,500 to 3,500 words) on national issues. You would not be on the mind-destroying, soul-destroying, body-destroying treadmill of cranking out multiple pieces a day. Flexible start date (from immediately to mid-November).
Compensation and Benefits
$85,000 - $125,000 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), slog through documents in some cases, and deal with an editor whose sins include saying things like, “I know that’s interesting and newsworthy, but it’s not the specific story we want probed.”
Plus which, the editor title is not nominal: I would be closely editing your work, however experienced you may be.
We will often be looking to reframe a question from “what is adequate?” to “what is optimal?” Or from a universe of current practices to an exploration of alternatives (those tried in the U.S. in the past; those tried elsewhere, past or present; and those that have so far only been imagined).
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.
Finally, you need to be open to thinking about story development strategies and reporting strategies you may not have used before.
Experience
Applicants should have at least five years of professional reporting experience. Beyond that threshold, we care more about the qualities described above than about years in the business.
See top sidebar for how to apply.