Business Insider is hiring full-time visual features reporters to tell captivating visual stories for its consumer sections covering transportation, retail and everything else we buy, consume, use, and interact with.
These positions are on teams that cover major consumer companies from fast food restaurants to department stores to major car brands. The visual features reporter would pitch, shoot, and write their own stories on these topics and be equally adept at sourcing photos from online outlets and going out to shoot their own.
The ideal candidate would consider themselves both a photographer and a journalist with excellent news judgement who is constantly thinking about how to turn today’s big news story into tomorrow’s must-see visual feature.
You’ll be writing stories like these:
- Chaos and violence erupted when hundreds of people showed up to get 99-cent sneakers from Adidas and Arizona Iced Tea — see what happened
- I ate 8 chicken sandwiches from fast-food chains, and the best was also the cheapest
- The Ford Shelby GT500 is the most powerful street-legal Mustang ever — here’s a closer look
- How Under Armour went from a new hotshot sportswear company taking on Nike to a brand with a wholly uncertain future
Business Insider is looking for someone with:
- Excellent writing skills
- A passion for telling visual stories
- Interest in reporting on a variety of topics
- Experience taking and editing original photos
- The ability to work at a fast pace as part of a team.
Copyediting skills and light HTML experience are a plus.
This is a full-time position based New York.