Time.com is hiring a breaking news reporter. The ideal candidate will have at least two years experience in a professional newsroom; a passion for covering business and technology news; and a demonstrated ability to develop scoops of fact, analysis and ideas. The job requires the ability to place developing technology and business trends in the context of readers’ everyday lives. The ideal candidate should be comfortable interviewing a company executive, covering a developing news story in real time and writing features for the audience of a general interest magazine. To succeed in this position, a reporter will have to be a self-starter and excel working on a team.
The company:
Time Inc. is one of the largest branded media companies in the world. The company reaches more than 130 million people globally each month across multiple platforms, with influential brands like Time, People, Sports Illustrated, InStyle, Real Simple, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, and Wallpaper. Time Inc. is home to celebrated events and franchises including the Fortune 500, Time 100, People’s Most Beautiful, Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year, Essence Festival in New Orleans and the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen.
You will:
- Cover key companies in the tech world, creating original, short-form stories on tight deadlines
- Pitch and write long-form feature stories for print
- Track emerging companies and trends, collaborating with editors
- Collaborate on the production of video, mobile and social content
- Represent the brand at industry events, conferences and as an on-the-ground resource for Silicon Valley coverage
You have:
- Demonstrated experience breaking news
- Experience bringing stories to life through narrative data, photo, video
- Experience covering/interview executives
- Experience putting technology in the context of reader’s everyday lives
To apply, go here.
