Life and Trends Reporter (Casual)

The role

The reporter will produce fast, accurate, and original Life and Trends coverage for an American audience. This involves sourcing, pitching, researching, and developing story packages including interviews and visuals.

What you will do

• Produce multiple Life and Trends articles each day to a high editorial standard.
• Pitch original ideas daily and identify opportunities to extend, advance or update existing coverage.
• Build complete story packages that include original voices, relevant data, context and strong visual elements.
• Secure original comment from key people connected to stories.
• Research and write original stories, exclusives, interviews and features.
• Prioritise off-platform stories while producing additional content for Newsweek.com.
• Monitor news wires, social media, Google Trends and other relevant sources for emerging stories.
• Identify and upload the strongest available visuals.
• Apply sound editorial judgement and rigorous fact checking.
• Collaborate with assigning editors, content editors, visuals teams and audience teams.

Required qualifications

• Experience working in a reputable, fast paced digital publication.
• Proven ability to source, pitch, report and produce several stories each day to a high standard.
• Demonstrable experience of developing complete story packages that combine original voices, data, context and visuals.
• Strong understanding of the Life and Trends news agenda and the types of stories that engage an American audience.
• Ability to identify original angles and secure comment from people directly connected to a story.
• Strong news judgement and an excellent command of clear, concise and engaging digital copy.
• Experience using social media, Google Trends and other digital sources to identify stories and emerging topics.
• Strong visual judgement and the ability to identify images, video and other assets that support and improve a story.
• Ability to work accurately and calmly to tight deadlines.
• A collaborative approach and the ability to work effectively with assigning editors, content editors, visuals teams and audience teams.
• Willingness to adapt to evolving newsroom priorities, workflows, formats and responsibilities.
• Solid understanding of media law, sourcing best practice and ethical journalism.

Nice to have

• Experience producing off-platform content or other digital aggregation platforms.
• Proficiency with content management systems, digital publishing tools and basic analytics.
• A track record of original reporting, including exclusives, interviews or high impact human interest stories.
• Familiarity with data journalism basics, including spreadsheets, public datasets and simple charts.
• Competency with multimedia, including image editing, simple video trimming and social embeds.
• Knowledge of SEO techniques and audience development strategies.

About the company

Newsweek is a global media organization that reaches 100 million people each month. It is headquartered in New York City and publishes international editions in EMEA and Asia.