TheWeal is hiring. We are looking for reporters and editors who cover crypto with rigor and a respect for the reader. This page lists what we look for, what working at TheWeal looks like, and how to apply.
Who we are looking for
We are not optimising for output volume. We are optimising for output quality. The reporters and editors we have hired so far share these characteristics:
- Several years of beat reporting experience, at a publication where editorial standards were enforced
- Genuine technical curiosity about how crypto actually works — not surface-level fluency
- A track record of breaking stories or producing analysis that other publications cite
- Comfort with quantitative evidence — reading on-chain data, parsing financial filings, evaluating attestation reports
- An instinct to hedge claims that should be hedged and a willingness to make strong claims when the evidence supports them
- Familiarity with the limits of their own knowledge and a habit of asking for help when they hit those limits
If that describes you, read on. If it doesn’t, we can probably tell within the first interview and we’ll save both of us time.
What working at TheWeal looks like
TheWeal is a small newsroom — currently five staff plus a network of contractors. The structure is intentional: small enough that every reporter knows what every other reporter is filing, small enough that the editor-in-chief reads everything before publication. We expect to roughly double in size over the next eighteen months but we will not grow faster than our editorial standards can scale.
Work is fully remote. The team is currently split across Singapore, Lagos / London, Berlin, Hong Kong, and Buenos Aires. We have a weekly editorial meeting and a weekly story-pitch session — both of those are mandatory; everything else is async. We do not run a 24/7 desk; we run extended business hours across our timezones, which between us covers Asia close → US close.
Compensation is at parity with serious financial newsrooms for equivalent experience. We pay in fiat, monthly. We do not pay in tokens. We do not pay performance bonuses tied to traffic numbers — that incentive structure is incompatible with the editorial standards we operate.
Current open positions
We have two open positions as of the page’s last update:
Senior Reporter — Stablecoins & Payments
We are looking for a senior reporter to own coverage of the stablecoin landscape — issuer disclosures, reserve composition, the regulatory frameworks emerging in the US (GENIUS Act), EU (MiCA), and Asia, and the on-the-ground payment use cases where stablecoins are most relevant.
Strong candidates have 5+ years of financial or technology reporting, fluency reading attestation reports and SEC/FinCEN filings, and existing relationships with stablecoin issuers, regulators, or payment infrastructure. Field-reporting experience is a strong plus.
To apply, send a CV, three writing samples, and a one-page note on the story you would file in your first month to careers@theweal.com.
Editor — Weekend Edition
We are looking for an editor to run the TheWeal weekend edition — a Saturday newsletter and three to four longer-form pieces published Saturday and Sunday. The role is part editor, part curator, part copy-desk lead. Strong candidates have 3+ years of editing experience at a publication that takes weekend long-form seriously, an instinct for what makes a piece sing or fall flat, and the discipline to hold a writer’s draft until it’s actually ready.
To apply, send a CV, three pieces you have edited (with your role explained), and a one-paragraph note on the weekend issue you would commission first.
Contributors
Beyond staff, we work with a rotating roster of contributors on individual pieces. If you have a specific story you’d like to file — particularly one rooted in deep domain expertise we do not have on staff — pitch it to pitches@theweal.com. We pay contributor rates at parity with The Block and CoinDesk for comparable work.
How to apply
For staff roles: send the materials specified above to careers@theweal.com. Include the role name in the subject line. We acknowledge every application within 5 business days and respond with a yes / no / pipeline-update within 3 weeks.
Our process for shortlisted candidates is: (1) 45-minute conversation with the hiring editor, (2) a paid writing test scoped to your beat (3–4 hours of work; we pay for it whether you continue), (3) a longer conversation with the editor-in-chief and one other team member, (4) reference checks. The whole process takes about four weeks.
What we ask in interviews
We ask the same questions of every candidate to keep our process fair:
- Walk us through the most rigorously-reported story you have produced. Why did you cover it that way?
- Walk us through a story you produced that, in hindsight, you would have framed differently. What did you learn?
- Pitch us a story for TheWeal that you would file in your first month.
- Describe how you would handle a source asking you to soften your framing in exchange for future access.
- What are the limits of your knowledge? Where would you ask for help?
There are no trick questions. We are evaluating how you think, not testing memorisation.
What we do not look for
- Hot-take volume
- “Crypto-native” framing as a substitute for editorial rigor
- Pre-existing relationships with covered projects that we would have to mitigate
- Willingness to compromise on sourcing standards under deadline pressure
If those are core to your professional identity, this is not the right newsroom for you.
Equal opportunity
TheWeal is an equal-opportunity employer. We hire on the quality of work and the standards a candidate brings, not on demographic factors. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented backgrounds in financial journalism and welcome candidates whose career path does not look like a straight line from journalism school to a major newsroom.