CNET is looking for an advice writer with an interest in smart home technology to join our team. You will be responsible for writing authoritative, engaging news, hands-on reviews, product best lists and other content in this exciting, quickly evolving product category.
You’ll be joining the CNET advice team, a team with deep domain expertise, with industry-leading resources at your disposal to help our readers make sense of products and services, and how they fit into their lives. You will also work with our video team and appear on camera to cover select stories.
We are looking for a hard-working, meticulous individual who can manage deadlines, prioritize short- and long-term projects, while delivering accurate, informative, and otherwise clean copy. Ideal candidates should have familiarity with the basic principles of journalism and enthusiasm for products, services, and platforms.
What You’ll Do
- Write and publish daily stories under deadline, as well as long-term features
- Work with the senior editor to craft story ideas, provide updates, and set deadlines
- Work with companies to get access to new products/services to test and review
- Write and edit great headlines and descriptions, and select compelling images to represent stories
- Scan press releases and social media to discover news related to your coverage area
- Develop industry-leading sources with executives and leaders in the industry
- Write on assignment, including reviews, product lists, features, how-to, explainers, and other stories
- Use analytics and other tools to track and optimize story performance
- Use social media to help build audience and develop community
- Represent CNET at conferences, product launches, and industry events
What We’re Looking For
- Digital journalism experience
- Experience writing for a general audience of consumers
- Experience covering technology, consumer products, consumers services, innovation or related topics, bonus if you’ve written about or have a demonstrated interest in smart home products
- Must be able to work in fast-paced environment and manage daily deadlines
- Must be adaptable; since the media and tech industries are two of the fastest changing industries on the planet, priorities change rapidly and regularly
- Must be trustworthy, committed, considerate, and a good listener; high emotional IQ
To apply, go here.
Chris RoushChris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.