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DTNews is hiring across 14 bureaus and 9 desks. Reporters, editors, photographers, audio producers, product designers and engineers — full-time, with bylines you'll be proud of and editors who'll fight for your work.
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NEW₹14L – ₹22LSenior political reporter — Maharashtra
Lead the desk's coverage of the 2027 alliance map. Sources required, sugar-belt access preferred.
CLOSING SOON₹18L – ₹28LSenior product designer — Web & iOS
Own the editorial product surface end-to-end. Design system, article reader, paywall, e-paper.
FELLOWSHIP₹8L stipendAudio producer — Daily Briefing
Help anchor and produce our morning Daily Briefing — 7 AM, weekdays, with Ravish Kumar.
Senior political reporter — Maharashtra
Lead the Mumbai politics desk's coverage of the 2027 alliance map and cabinet politics. Sources required, sugar-belt access preferred. Reports to the editor-in-chief.
Markets correspondent — Hyderabad
Cover earnings, equities and the southern PSU ecosystem from our Hyderabad bureau. Strong filings-reading and modelling skills required.
Audio producer — The Daily Briefing
Help anchor and produce our 7 AM weekday briefing alongside Ravish Kumar. ProTools/Hindenburg fluency, editorial judgment, and the ability to cut 15 minutes from 60 in an hour.
Senior product designer — Web & iOS
Own the editorial product surface end-to-end. You'll work with the design system, article reader, paywall and e-paper. Figma + a portfolio of shipped editorial work required.
Climate reporter — Bengal coast
Cover the cyclone belt, coastal erosion, and Sundarbans displacement out of our Kolkata bureau. Field-first role — expect to be on the ground 12+ days a month during monsoon.
Full-stack engineer — Next.js + Laravel
Build the reader-facing web product. Next.js 15 App Router, TypeScript, Tailwind on the front; Laravel + raw SQL on the back. Bonus if you have CMS chops.
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We hire continuously across reporting, editing and product. Send us a short note about what you'd cover and three pieces you're proud of.
Email careers@dtnews.inHow we hire.
Same five steps for every role · transparent and fastApply
Send a one-page note + three published pieces (or a portfolio for design / a repo for engineering).
First call
30-minute video chat with the hiring editor. Mostly about what you'd cover and why.
Take-home
A short, paid exercise — a story pitch, a redesign, or a small build. ~4 hours.
On-site
Two conversations: the editor-in-chief and a desk peer. Newsroom tour included.
Offer
Written offer with full comp, equity (if applicable), and start date. No verbal-only promises.
From the desks.
Three reasons three reporters stayedI joined as a Markets reporter in 2019 and I'm still here. The reason is simple: I have never had a story killed for political reasons, and I've broken six.
The Bengal coast beat means a lot of travel, a lot of weather and a lot of difficult sources. DTNews is the only paper that kept funding the work after the first big floods stopped being trendy.