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Editor, Investment Grade Bonds
London, £100,000 - £130,000, plus equity

The credit intelligence platform that's become essential reading at over three hundred blue-chip institutions is hiring a European Investment Grade Editor.

Full ownership of the beat: coverage strategy, desk leadership, and the stories the market trades on.

Interested?
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Last week, I had over 30 in-depth meetings with folks from across the news and intelligence spectrum in New York. The tone of those meetings stood in stark contrast to my last visit, which came in the immediate aftermath of Liberation Day.

So what has changed in the meantime?

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Contrasts in business confidence 🌓

Whilst most participants felt their business was performing strongly, perceptions of the broader industry were rife with negativity and uncertainty.

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Opportunity: Join one of the fastest-growing platforms in debt market intelligence.

Senior Reporter, Credit
$100,000 - $140,000, New York, hybrid

This business has established itself as a go-to source for bankers, lawyers, and advisors, with a rapidly expanding readership. They are looking for a reporter to develop their source base, break news, and build a reputation in one of finance's most complex and fast-moving markets.

You will be given autonomy to pursue stories independently while receiving formal and informal training in interviewing, source-building, news writing, and financial markets. A hybrid working model, work-abroad flexibility, and a strong benefits package make this a compelling platform to grow a career in financial journalism.

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I'm in New York next week.

Last year, my trip came shortly after Liberation Day, and many leaders across news, data, and intelligence were apprehensive as the macroeconomic picture darkened.

Since then, we've seen businesses reshape their operations as the information ecosystem was redrawn around LLM technology.

The baseline of delivering news, data, and research has been extended. Forward-thinking businesses are embedding their intelligence within clients' workflows, developing innovative, adaptable databases, and building AI into the heart of their offering.

Strategies and mindsets are shifting. There is genuine innovation across product, revenue, and productivity.

For the first time in years, the path to success is becoming clearer, and momentum is building across the industry.

I'm meeting with leaders in news, data, and intelligence who have felt the tide turn, as well as those curious about the strategies and dynamics at play.

If you'd like to catch up or exchange perspectives on the market, please DM me or e-mail [email protected].

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Opportunity: to be part of a specialist intelligence service's American launch.

Reporter, Digital Infrastructure Deals ☁️
$100,000 - $140,000 plus bonus. New York, hybrid.

This organisation has one of the best reputations in the market for producing high-performing scoop-driven reporters, capable of consistently beating the biggest names in the industry to both M&A and leveraged finance deal flow.

They’re looking for a newshound to cover investment in digital infrastructure as they open their first American office this year.

You will work collaboratively with an established and growing team of reporters dedicated to uncovering deal flow across datacentres, telecoms, and cloud. As a senior reporter, you will have opportunities to cultivate and develop meaningful relationships with influential sources to get ahead of deal indicators that will significantly impact investor activity.

This organisation have an excellent reputation for supporting career development, with all editors there having started as reporters.

We are looking for journalists with a track record or a burning desire to break news and a demonstrable interest in capital markets and digital infrastructure.

More info? Reach out via...
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Ian Katz to leave role as Channel 4 content chief in the autumn https://t.co/48abjz2XA7

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Opportunity: Shape the editorial agenda for one of the most consequential and least-covered corners of global fixed income at an intelligence platform that has become indispensable to DCM professionals worldwide.

Senior Reporter, CEEMEA Credit
Remote, London HQ, £80,000 - £120,000 plus equity

This business has established itself as an authoritative source for lev fin intelligence across the US and Europe, trusted daily by the world's leading banks, asset managers, law firms, and advisors. Now, it is building out a dedicated CEEMEA offering and is looking for an experienced reporter to drive coverage from the ground up. Recent investment indicates the platform is at a defining point in its global expansion.

CEEMEA credit markets are vast, opaque, and increasingly consequential. From GCC sukuk issuance to Eastern European restructurings and sub-Saharan loan markets, this beat demands rare expertise and rarer still, someone with the market relationships and journalistic instincts to own it. That is precisely what this role offers: editorial autonomy and the infrastructure of a well-resourced and rapidly scaling newsroom.

More info? Reach out via...
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Last week, @9finHQ announced a new round of funding totalling $170 million. This latest investment values the business at $1.3 billion.

In this month's *𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭, we look into their journey: the ambition, the challenges, and the milestones to uncover what other leaders across news, data, and intelligence can learn.

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This week's newsletter will cover the story of 9fin, B2B data's latest unicorn. We will track their early days, the decisions that led to their success, and the challenges they overcame.

We also launch our latest research project, Signal:NDI, give practical advice on avoiding counteroffers, and round up the latest news, people moves, and opportunities.

Our mini edition, *On the market, grew by a pinch under one thousand new subscribers after last month's newsletter covering the SaaSpocolypse. Total readers are now above 11,000, but fewer than 5% have full access to our full email edition.

If you'd like the full version delivered to your inbox, please reply "On the market", or email ben@media-contacts with the subject line "On the market" along with your name, company, title, and telephone number.

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M&A News: Bridgepoint Group backed PEI Group has acquired Scientific Infra & Private Assets (SIPA), the index, benchmark, and rating provider born out of academic research at EDHEC Business School. SIPA's three core products: infraMetrics, privateMetrics, and privateAlpha, will be integrated into PEI's existing platforms, giving their clients access to a unified view of private markets performance, risk reporting, and asset valuation.

PEI will continue its direct partnership with EDHEC and its Infrastructure and Private Assets Research Institute, maintaining the rigour that underpins SIPA's methodology. The combination of PEI's global distribution reach and SIPA's science-backed benchmarks could raise the bar for how private market intelligence is built and delivered.

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Opportunity: a particularly interesting move for private equity journalists or PR, providing an opportunity to move from covering or advising on the industry to actively shaping the agenda of conversations happening within it.

Community Manager, Private Equity
London, Hybrid. £60,000 - £80,000.

A leading international private markets platform is seeking a Community Manager to help shape the conversations taking place across its global investor network.

The organisation sits at the centre of the private capital ecosystem, convening investors, fund managers, advisers and service providers through a sophisticated mix of live events, editorial content and year-round community engagement. Its platform combines flagship conferences with newsletters, webinars, white papers, surveys and roundtables designed to keep senior market participants connected between events and deepen engagement across the industry.

More info? Reach out via...
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Opportunity: a particularly interesting move for private equity journalists or PR, providing an opportunity to move from covering or advising on the industry to actively shaping the agenda of conversations happening within it.

Community Manager, Private Equity
London, Hybrid. £60,000 - £80,000.

A leading international private markets platform is seeking a Community Manager to help shape the conversations taking place across its global investor network.

The organisation sits at the centre of the private capital ecosystem, convening investors, fund managers, advisers and service providers through a sophisticated mix of live events, editorial content and year-round community engagement. Its platform combines flagship conferences with newsletters, webinars, white papers, surveys and roundtables designed to keep senior market participants connected between events and deepen engagement across the industry.

More info? Reach out via...
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M&A News: Delinian has successfully divested three of its portfolio companies: Derivia Intelligence, Extell, and Euromoney to Triple Private Equity through separate transactions, marking one of the more significant reshuffles in the financial data and intelligence space in recent years.

Triple is a growth-focused private equity firm specialising in B2B software and data. Derivia Intelligence (GlobalCapital, SRP, and FOW) uses proprietary sourcing and AI to deliver complex structured data to investment banks, hedge funds, and issuers. Extel sets the global standard for perception analytics and competitor benchmarking in capital markets. Euromoney has been the premier benchmarking and intelligence business for the banking industry for over 50 years.

Notably, each service has undergone a significant editorial-to-intelligence transformation over recent years: laying proprietary data, rankings, and analysis alongside traditional reporting; deepening their services in a hyper-competitive market.

The deals are expected to be completed later this month.

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The first in a new season of @TheEconomist Economist's Boss Class podcast, released last weekend, gave a rare, honest account of AI implementation, using The Economist's newsroom as a case study.

The most useful concept in the episode is Ethan Mollick’s “jagged frontier”: AI isn’t improving in a straight line. It’s brilliant at some tasks and weak at others. The only way to understand where it helps you is to push it until it breaks: try using AI for everything, then map where it performs and where it falls short.

It was interesting to hear such a contrast in approach and attitude from the bullish, maybe even nihilist, technology perspective from Monzo founder, Tom Blomfield and more pragmatic media perspectives from both Ludwig Siegele and host, Andrew Palmer.

🤖 The tech perspective:
West Coast AI ideologues believe the window for value creation is closing:
Blomfield described a culture shift among students across the US, students dropping out of college to launch new tech companies before AI eats into the ideas space. This might seem dystopian, but worth noting the extent to which people are making career decisions based on what they think is coming.

A "fat layer of humans" might become a thin layer over time:
Blomfield predicts that repetitive tasks become automated first, before expanding to greater complexity over time. He feels that most "knowledge" work will be performed by AI in our lifetimes, and that the human layer could approach zero.

📖 The media perspective:
Most organisations are living at the edge of disappointment:
From Siegele, companies are "teetering at the edge of disappointment". AI is imperfect by nature, and most companies haven't seen returns, but fear of being left behind keeps experimentation going.

AI as a cost-cutting lever:
Mollick suggests the default corporate instinct is to convert efficiency gains into layoffs. He argues that’s a misread. In a revolutionary moment, the advantage comes from capacity gains: new products, faster iteration, not just headcount reduction.

The overall take was that AI is still a strange mix of wobbling inaccuracy and existential threat. Best to double down on what’s genuinely human: judgement, curiosity, and creativity.

Full episode here: https://t.co/uugriMg1on

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A rare and exciting opportunity to be part of the launch of a globally recognised financial news service in the USA.

Senior Reporter, M&A or Leveraged Finance
$100,000 - $140,000, Spring start

This organisation has one of the best reputations in the market for producing high-performing scoopers, capable of consistently beating the biggest names in the industry to M&A and leveraged finance deal flow.

They’re looking for newshound reporters to join as they open their first American office this year. You will work collaboratively with an established and growing team of reporters dedicated to uncovering deal flow in the world of digital infrastructure.

You will be given the opportunity and space to develop meaningful relationships with influential sources to get ahead of deal indicators that will significantly impact market movement and investor activity.

More info? Reach out via...
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💬[phone]

To apply, send your CV to [email protected] with the subject line: Senior Reporter, M&A or Leveraged Finance.

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Industry news: Private equity firm Bridgepoint Group has agreed to take a £30m minority stake in Exile Group, a provider of data, intelligence and specialist events for the global infrastructure, export and project finance industries.

Founded in 2013, Exile’s products are used by major global banks, export credit agencies, development finance institutions, law firms, and other market participants. The company’s founders retain a majority share following the deal.

The transaction reflects continued investor appetite in high-growth information and intelligence markets at a time when global infrastructure spending requirements are forecast to exceed $7 trillion annually.

Bridgepoint has a track record of backing high-growth events and data businesses, such as PEI Group Ltd, and sees Exile’s position across export, project and development finance as strategically attractive.