Yahoo Tech is hiring a writer/editor to expand our coverage of news, features and analysis of the technology category, including consumer electronics and AI. This newly created position would be helping to define the news output of Yahoo Tech, while also contributing to our sister site, Engadget, where appropriate. We’re looking for an enterprising journalist who can write original content, and, as the news operation expands, has the skills necessary to commission, assign and edit freelancers. We’re looking for someone who understands these spaces well enough to distill them into digestible terms for a broad audience.
Responsibilities:
- Write several news and feature stories focusing on the biggest events and trends in the tech space each week with a general-interest angle.
- Write multiple tech news summaries each week that can double as a newsletter.
- Work with the SEO team to identify and write fast-turnaround news stories designed to maximize news box traffic.
- Commission, assign and edit freelancers to help with the above tasks, as well as longer-lead explainers and how-to stories.
- Initiate periodic (weekly, biweekly, monthly) updates of evergreen explainers to maintain organic and news box search traffic.
Requirements:
- Proven ability to produce clean, well-researched copy, and to sometimes juggle multiple deadlines.
- Experience covering consumer technology and news in the AI space.
- Ability to identify, on-board and edit trusted freelancers.
- Works well with others, and is receptive to feedback.
- Experience and comfort writing and editing stories to search optimization.
To apply, go here.
