Senior Reporter, PharmaVoice

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Washington, DC, USA
Hybrid
80K-94K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • Business Intelligence
The Role
Senior Reporter for PharmaVoice covering biopharma and biotech through enterprise reporting, features, breaking news, interviews, and event coverage. The role owns an industry beat, builds source relationships, analyzes clinical, scientific, policy, and business information, collaborates on editorial projects, and performs daily editing. Candidates need at least five years of journalism experience, including three years covering pharma or life sciences, plus strong writing, analytical, headline-writing, and deadline-management skills.
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Company Description

Do you want to develop your career and make an impact in the fast-growth, fast-moving B2B technology space?

At Informa TechTarget, you’ll collaborate and grow alongside some of the industry’s most respected experts. You’ll work with leading brands and be exposed to world-shaping innovations. You’ll apply your energy and intellect to helping clients be faster to market and faster to revenue.

We’re a vibrant community of world-class practitioners – over 2000 colleagues strong – with offices in 19 locations around the world. We’re traded on Nasdaq and also part of Informa PLC, a global leader in business-to-business events, digital services, and academic research in the FTSE 100.

About Informa TechTarget

Informa TechTarget (Nasdaq: TTGT) informs, influences and connects the world’s technology buyers and sellers, to accelerate growth from R&D to ROI.

With an unparalleled reach of over 220 highly targeted technology-specific websites and more than 50 million permissioned first-party audience members, Informa TechTarget has a unique understanding of and insight into technology markets.

Underpinned by those audiences and their data, we offer expert-led, data-driven, and digitally enabled services that deliver significant impact and measurable outcomes to our clients. We provide our customers with:

  • Trusted information that shapes the industry and informs investment
  • Intelligence and advice that guides and influences strategy
  • Advertising that grows reputation and establishes thought leadership
  • Custom content that engages and prompts action
  • Intent and demand generation that more precisely targets and converts

Our organization is committed to sustainability, diversity, wellbeing, and ethical working practices. Visit informatechtarget.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

For more information, visit informatechtarget.com and follow us on LinkedIn

Job Description

This role is based in our 15th St NW, Washington, DC office.

PharmaVoice is seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Reporter to deliver timely, insightful, and impactful coverage of the biopharma and biotech industries. This role offers the opportunity to craft compelling enterprise stories, in-depth features, and occasional quick-turn news pieces that analyze the trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the pharmaceutical sector.

About the Role

As a Senior Reporter, you will take ownership of your beat, leveraging your industry knowledge, source-building expertise, and keen observations to pitch and pursue ambitious stories. You will be responsible for producing high-quality content that captures the impact of operational and leadership changes, groundbreaking research, drug developments, and policy or legislative shifts on the pharma industry.

This role also includes daily editing responsibilities, ensuring the highest standards of quality and consistency in our editorial output.

Key Responsibilities

  • Industry Coverage: Deliver enterprise reporting, in-depth features, and quick-turn news stories that provide valuable insights into the biopharma and biotech industries.
  • Source Building: Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with key industry stakeholders, newsmakers, and experts to stay ahead of emerging trends and developments.
  • Event Reporting: Attend and report on industry events, conducting interviews and gathering insights to inform your stories.
  • Editorial Collaboration: Work closely with the PharmaVoice team to brainstorm, plan, and execute larger editorial projects.
  • Editing Duties: Perform daily editing tasks to ensure clarity, accuracy, and alignment with PharmaVoice’s tone and standards.

Qualifications

  • Proven Expertise: Demonstrated success in reporting and writing on the business of pharmaceuticals, with a strong portfolio of impactful stories.
  • Industry Knowledge: Deep interest and understanding of key issues affecting pharma and biotech leaders, including:
    • Commercialization strategies
    • Drug research and development across various indications (e.g., oncology, obesity)
    • Regulatory trends and policy developments
    • The role of AI in pharma and biotech
    • Global industry dynamics, including the rise of China in the sector
  • Analytical Skills: Proficient in interpreting and analyzing complex clinical trial data, scientific research, policy changes, earnings reports, and industry trends, with the ability to connect the dots and highlight their implications for stakeholders.
  • Beat Ownership: Ability to quickly take ownership of specific beats through original reporting and by cultivating relationships with key and diverse industry sources.
  • Deadline-Driven: Thrives in a fast-paced news environment, with strong time management skills and the ability to deliver high-quality stories under tight deadlines.
  • Editorial Skills: Experience in writing compelling web headlines and editing copy to ensure clarity, accuracy, and engagement.
  • Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Journalism, English, or a related field.
  • Professional Experience: A minimum of 5 years of journalism experience, with at least 3 years dedicated to reporting on the pharma or life sciences industries.

Additional Information

TechTarget, Inc., doing business as Informa TechTarget, including its subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), age, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment. If you would like to request reasonable adjustments or accommodations to assist your participation in the hiring process and, or in the advertised position, please inform the appropriate Talent Acquisition Partner for the role once they have been in touch. Your request will be reviewed and considered in confidence. 

Informa TechTarget complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable federal, state or local law. 

We believe that great things happen when people connect face-to-face. That's why we work in-person with each other, or with customers and partners, three days a week or more. When you’re not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces – like at an Informa event – you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely.

Our benefits include: 

  • Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active colleague groups and networks promoting a positive, supportive, and collaborative work environment
  • Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer with a philanthropic organization
  • Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves 
  • Time out: Open Vacation, plus 10 national holidays, and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year 
  • Competitive benefits, including a 401k match, health, vision and dental insurance, parental leave and an ESPP offering company shares at a minimum 15% discount 
  • Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, free access to a wellness app and more 
  • Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programs 
  • As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world 

The salary range for this role is $80,000- $94,000 based on experience.

This posting will automatically expire on 11,10,2026.

Skills Required

  • Demonstrated success reporting and writing on the business of pharmaceuticals
  • Strong portfolio of impactful stories
  • Deep understanding of commercialization strategies, drug research and development, regulatory and policy trends, AI in pharma and biotech, and global industry dynamics
  • Ability to interpret and analyze clinical trial data, scientific research, policy changes, earnings reports, and industry trends
  • Ability to connect complex information to implications for industry stakeholders
  • Ability to take ownership of reporting beats through original reporting and source development
  • Strong time management and ability to deliver high-quality stories under tight deadlines
  • Experience writing compelling web headlines and editing copy for clarity, accuracy, and engagement
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Journalism, English, or a related field
  • At least five years of journalism experience
  • At least three years reporting on pharma or life sciences industries
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The Company
HQ: London
3,741 Employees
Year Founded: 1998

What We Do

Informa is a leading international intelligence, events and scholarly research group. We're here to champion the specialist, connecting people with knowledge to help them learn more, know more and do more. We're a FTSE 100 company with 10,000 colleagues working in over 30 countries and a presence in all major regions, including North America, South America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Informa has five business divisions: Informa Markets, Informa Connect, Informa Tech, Informa Intelligence and Taylor & Francis. We are home to hundreds of leading brands, serving businesses and professionals who work in any one of dozens of specialist markets through brands such as Citeline, Arab Health, CPhI and EBD Group in Pharma, Pharma Ingredients and Biotech; SuperReturn, EPFR and FBX in Finance; Lloyd's List in Maritime; New Hope and Natural Products Expo in Health & Nutrition; Routledge, CRC Press and F1000 Research in Academic Publishing; Black Hat in Cybersecurity; AI Summit in Artificial Intelligence; and many more.

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