Higher Education Reporter, Boston Globe Opinion

Job description

Job Description: The Boston Globe Opinion desk is looking for an enterprising reporter to anchor a new section focused on higher education. Because the Boston area has several of the world’s top universities, coverage rooted here can offer particularly deep insights into the enormous political, cultural, economic, and intellectual shifts happening in higher ed right now. This reporter will work closely with the editor of this new vertical to shape its development as it rolls out in the second half of 2026. This journalist’s duties will include writing a lively, informative, scoopy weekly newsletter; writing reported and investigative commentary; and appearing at events that bring the section’s coverage to life. Responsibilities: This writer will be expected to help readers understand dramatic changes happening in higher education in everything from admissions to AI to the demographic cliff. These stories will largely focus on colleges and universities in New England, but we expect to appeal to readers across the nation and even internationally. In keeping with this position’s role in the Opinion department, this writer will not be expected to chronicle developments for the record o...