Consumer Reports seeks electronics writer

An enthusiastic content creator, executing a range of digital, print, social, interactive and video content assignments. In collaboration with departmental management, the Staff Writer, Electronics writes and enhances the Electronics content work for all platforms, creating stories that are on-strategy, on-time, accurate, highly engaging and informed by the research done by Consumer Reports. The Associate Content Creator helps generate content ideas, then develops and processes them through print, digital and video work-flows.

Key Responsibilities:

• Under close supervision, researches, pitches, writes, reviews and enhances electronics content to be published across print, digital and video platforms.
• Follows and researches the latest electronics and digital privacy news topics, interviews expert sources externally and internally, tracks market trends and generates relevant ideas for content to be reviewed by others.
• May act as in-house electronics spokesperson or representative for media outreach, tradeshows and industry events.
• May act as on-camera electronics subject matter expert for all CR video platforms.
• Supports digital editorial team to maintain specialty products content on Consumer Reports Online.
• Creates compelling story packaging and display copy to drive reader engagement and consumer impact.
• Supports the planning and scheduling process, creates sidebars and infographics that animate stories and reports.
• Updates work prepared in one CR media format for use in another. Formats copy according to standards for quality, style and voice.
• Coordinates content along the production process, incorporating changes by related parties, copy-fitting, and conferring with art and production personnel.
• Writes headlines, subheads, captions, cover lines etc., as necessary. Prepares sourcing for fact-checking.
• Participates as a member of a cross-functional product testing and content team, conferring with other team members as necessary to ensure objectives for quality and timeliness are met.
• Meets weekly digital story production targets.
• Maintains knowledge of one or more electronics or technology product or service categories within the content group.
• Performs other duties of the department, but not those of a higher level.

Qualifications Include:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with at least 1-3 years’ experience in writing, reporting, or editing for electronics or digital privacy on multiple platforms required.
• Competent in all aspects of creating accurate and compelling stories across all platforms, with a keen understanding of the socially driven landscape.
• Ability to generate content that attracts an audience via multiple channels.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to work in self-directed capacity and to conceive and execute compelling multimedia content.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to meet rigid deadlines. Competent with page design software such as K4 and CQ as well as Microsoft Office and Google Docs highly beneficial.
• Ability to collect and interpret data, internal and external, to create the most accurate and in context story possible.

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