Staff Reporter, CIO Dive
About The Position
CIO Dive is looking for a staff reporter to join an ambitious team covering enterprise IT. As a part of your regular duties as a staff reporter, you will report and write on news impacting the industry, build sources and interview industry executives, analysts and other relevant newsmakers. You will produce a mix of short daily stories, including quick-turn news, as well as longer feature articles. In this role on CIO Dive, you’ll dive into the fast-paced world of business technology and strategy, writing briefs, articles and features to help tech executives cut through the growing noise. You will cultivate a beat, learn and analyze the trends impacting CIOs, develop relationships with key industry sources, collaborate with your team daily and travel to cover relevant industry events. We don’t expect candidates to be experts on CIOs or IT. We are looking for candidates who will bring their curiosity to the table and are eager to hone their business journalism skills and write for a target audience.
Requirements
- Strong reporting and writing skills
- Deadline-oriented time management skills
- Ability to report and write multiple stories each week on varied business topics
- Ability to report and write in different story formats, such as breaking news and in-depth features
- Experience with journalism style, such as the AP Stylebook, familiarity with fact-checking and copy editing
- Deep curiosity about complex topics
- A desire to grow as a business journalist
- 1-2 years experience on a publication or experience with a college paper, internship, or academic journalism program
- A bachelor’s degree
Responsibilities
- Report and write on a daily basis
- Develop skills in source development, news judgment, story pitching, subject matter expertise and beat ownership
- Assist with editing and production for the website and newsletters
- Collaborate with the CIO Dive team and other newsroom journalists
- Track analytics to gauge what stories are resonating with readers
- Help with shared social media duties
Benefits
- Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active colleague groups and networks promoting a positive, supportive, and collaborative work environment
- Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too
- Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves
- Time out: Open PTO, plus 10 national holidays, a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
- Competitive benefits, including a 401k match, health, vision and dental insurance, parental leave and an ESPP offering company shares at a minimum 15% discount
- Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, free access to a wellness app and more
- Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programs
- As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
