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FedScoop.com seeks defense and intelligence tech reporter

Scoop News Group’s FedScoop.com is looking for a veteran defense and intelligence technology reporter with a wealth of experience navigating the Pentagon, Langley, and other military and IC mainstays to explore the ways they use information technology to achieve their missions and defend against national threats in the digital domain.

Scoop News Group is a small and explosive company in Washington, D.C., and our employees are committed both to producing the highest quality news products and maintaining the friendly, collaborative atmosphere in our beautiful downtown office. SNG prides itself on promoting the priorities of the federal government and IT industry to explore the ways technology can better the government.

Part of a fast-paced newsroom, you will write timely and engaging news and analysis stories circulated to 90,000+ subscribers through our Daily Scoop newsletter. Reporters are encouraged to take an enterprising and investigative approach to their work, seeking out untold stories that go beyond the obvious who, what, where, when and why. Likewise, FedScoop is driven to tell stories in evolving digital formats that better engage an on-the-go audience.

Successful candidates, in addition to their savvy as an enterprising, digital storyteller, are team players, dedicated to the Scoop News Group mission and ready to roll their sleeves up as team players when called upon outside of their traditional roles.

Responsibilities include:

  • Report and write original news articles daily for FedScoop.com and other Scoop News Group properties, and develop long-term, multisourced enterprise stories on a regular basis;
  • Interview and cover the work of leading defense and intelligence IT officials and technology experts;
  • Extend the readership of your stories with SEO-friendly headlines and social media promotion;
  • Work with the Scoop News Group team to create multimedia content for FedScoop, FedScoop TV and FedScoop Radio.

Requirements:

  • Minimum 8 years of professional daily journalism experience as a reporter or editor;
  • Familiarity with technology and/or the federal government a plus;
  • Bachelor’s degree in journalism, preferably online/new media concentration;
  • Strong communications and organization skills;
  • Proactive, “can-do” attitude with strong problem-solving ability;
  • Able to work collaboratively with a team and independently as required;
  • Strong knowledge of SEO, AP Style and social media;
  • Experience with multimedia tools, CMS systems and programming to create a polished final product.

Benefits
Scoop News Group has an awesome team and offers great benefits including a group medical plan, dental and vision, life, short- and long-term disability insurance, 401K and a gadget friendly cutting edge work environment.

Get Noticed
Email your resume to editorial.jobs@scoopnewsgroup.com, with the title “Technology Reporter” in the subject field. Include a cover letter, links to your best articles and salary requirements. No calls please.

Chris Roush

Chris 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.

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