Assistant News Editor (Canada)
About The Position
Datassential is a leading global intelligence platform for the food and beverage industry. Leveraging billions of data points and cutting-edge AI, we provide a suite of innovative solutions that empower more than 90% of the world’s largest food and beverage brands to develop, market, and sell their products more effectively. Based in Chicago, USA, Datassential has expanded its global reach through strategic acquisitions of CHD Expert (France) in 2022 and Brizo Data, Inc. (Canada) in 2025. In 2024, we secured investment from top-tier private equity firms New Mountain Capital and Endicott Capital—a milestone that fuels our accelerated product roadmap and strengthens our research and development, enabling us to deliver even greater value to our clients. Our remote-first, globally distributed team thrives on diverse perspectives and deep expertise in the food and beverage space. Food brings people together—and at Datassential’s table, there’s room for everyone. The Assistant News Editor will play a key role in driving Datassential’s nascent News content offering forward by helping to produce and refine unique news and insights that help from Datassential’s product suite, leveraging our existing research as well as proprietary analytics to publish compelling news articles that cut through the noise and add value for a variety of customer types in the food and beverage information ecosystem.
Requirements
- Have 1-2 years of news writing or editing experience, preferably in a real-time, business-to-business, and/or industry-focused publishing environment.
- Have a demonstrated ability to produce and refine data-driven storytelling.
- Show a demonstrated track record of developing subject-matter expertise in new areas rapidly.
- Be comfortable collaborating in a cross-functional manner in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment.
- Have experience in supporting a growing editorial effort with scalable processes and editorial infrastructure.
- Have experience or interest in leveraging automation technologies (NLG, NLP, LLMs, etc) to drive efficiency and create value in editorial processes.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with Datassential’s News Editorial Team to produce clean and succinct news articles that meet the needs of various client personas on a daily basis.
- Generate story ideas, draft copy and edit copy produced by others.
- Identify and leverage opportunities to mine compelling insights from Datassential’s unique, proprietary research and analytics tools.
- Collaborate closely and productively with Datassential’s Publications/Content Team, as well as other internal groups.
- Develop subject matter expertise in the food and beverage industry and real-time awareness of industry news topics.
- Assist in leveraging automation to streamline editorial workflows.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
