Senior Investigative Reporter – City Journal 

Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MI) is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders who are united by a shared commitment to advancing economic opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in America and its great cities. We are seeking a like-minded Senior Investigative Reporter who will work on a new team focused on misgovernance and public accountability in California.  

The team will operate through City Journal, MI’s magazine of urban affairs, and be helmed by Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow and investigative journalist Christopher F. Rufo. It will focus on issues of waste, fraud, abuse in the Golden State, working to hold public actors accountable and preserve the public trust. The senior reporter will identify under-covered or undiscovered stories about these issues (and others) and bring them to public attention. 

Senior reporters will collaborate with Rufo and the editors at City Journal (CJ) to produce rigorous investigative reporting from multiple angles. A successful candidate will have a demonstrated history of covering a diversity of topics using a variety of techniques, especially on-the-ground reporting.  

This is an “impact journalism” role, with the goal of not only reporting the facts, but making real and immediate change. Vital is an ability to tell compelling stories, and identify elements of those stories which will effectively dr