Senior Breaking News Reporter
Location: New York City Metropolitan Area
Salary: $65,000 - $85,000
Position: Permanent
Job Description
Dailymail.com is the world’s largest English-language newspaper website with more than 200 million monthly unique visitors. Our teams across the globe strive to provide our readers with engaging, fast and rolling news, 24/7, 365 days a year. With more than 360 journalists worldwide, we are seeking individuals who want to join a global media organization with excellent career development opportunities.
Dailymail.com is seeking a Senior Breaking News Reporter to create compelling content for our U.S. digital platforms. You will be responsible for pitching, writing, producing, and curating content of interest to the U.S. homepage audience which is distributed widely on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Daily Mail TV.
Working closely with the N.Y. news digital team your responsibilities will include:
- Produce written and package content for Daily Mail digital platforms
- The ability to deliver vibrant copy while working to very tight deadlines is crucial
- Ability to generate own news stories, with a keen eye for surfacing compelling content
- Manage workflow and research to deliver stories to tight deadlines
- Coordinate with fellow digital co-workers to ensure stories will be produced in a timely fashion for deadlines
- Operate content management system for publication of stories
- Monitor analytics and adjust strategy as needed to optimize KPIs
- Produce coverage of significant news events
- We are looking for professionals with the following:
- Passion for the DailyMail.com brand, its editorial voice and global audience
- At least 3 or more years of experience in journalism – digital news preferred
- Ability to work under tight deadline pressure
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Applicable knowledge of multiplatform news gathering tools and resources
- Must have a passion for research and finding the most interesting information
- Strong communication skills to work collaboratively with team members
In addition to a competitive salary package, excellent staff benefits (healthcare, optical, dental, 401K) and generous PTO allowance are also included.
Dailymail.com is operating during Covid-19 with a system which has some essential staff working from their HQ in Manhattan but also has remote/virtual (or "work-from-home") positions available within the U.S. These remote positions are for qualified individuals who live in some areas of the U.S. Remote opportunities are not available in all areas and therefore some specific questions about remote positions may be discussed during the interview process.
Dailymail.com is a 24-hour newsroom and therefore operates a seven-day working week from Sunday to Saturday. Applicants will be required to cover a variety of shifts during the operational hours of the newsroom (daily from 6am through 2am).
About dmg::media
dmg media’s brands deliver highly engaging, trusted content to millions of loyal customers around the globe, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Together, Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, Metro, i, MailOnline, Mail Plus, metro.co.uk and inews.co.uk reach more than 11m people daily in the UK.* Globally, our brands reach 180m unique browsers every month.** In March 2021, the business acquired the world’s leading science title, New Scientist.
dmg media’s newsbrands are expert at getting to the bottom of the stories most relevant to their readers.
*PAMCo 1 2020 ** Omniture April 2021
Our Commitment
We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.
