US Senior Political Reporter (Sunday-Thursday)
Location: Washington DC
Salary: $60,000 - $100,000 depending on experience
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 looking for an energetic and skilled reporter to join our Washington, D.C.-based team covering U.S. politics. You will cover news of the day whether it originates on Capitol Hill, at the White House, in Cabinet agencies or on the campaign trail.
This is a rare opportunity for a smart, prolific journalist to write for the English-speaking world’s most-read newspaper website.
Our reporters thrive in a deadline-rich environment and cover every story with the urgency of breaking news. They are natural storytellers and understand how to communicate in words, photographs, and video.
Responsibilities
- Follow breaking news, pitch exclusive projects to the Political Editor and write features based on the pressing political issues of the day that interest DailyMail.com readers in the U.S.
- Cover the White House, Congress, political campaigns, the Pentagon, and other agencies in the Federal Government daily
- Focus on politics, power, and influence at a national level
- Responsible for being an ambassador in Washington, D.C. to our DailyMail.com brand and ultimately grow our number of readers
- Gather and compile information on political events and use their news judgement to produce stories that cater to the DailyMail.com audience
- Provide the highest quality analysis and content based on political news daily
- Required to write between three and eight articles per day, depending on breaking news and ongoing projects.
- Produce own stories, projects and arrange interviews based on the political events that shape the lives of our readers
- This position requires working seven days a week, including nights, to keep up with the 24-hour political news cycle. This includes late notes in Congress, major speeches, late breaking news and major developments in contemporaneous issues and scandals
- Attend White House daily briefings, interview members of Congress, ask questions during press conferences and travel across the United States and the world on official visits
- Extensive knowledge of Search Engine Optimization and social media to optimize traffic and help spread Dailymail.com stories to as many readers as possible
- Able to write copy in Dailymail.com style – with accuracy, entertaining turns of phrases and have input on punchy headlines
- Able to juggle research with fast breaking news coverage
- Produce a visually impressive story with photos, graphics, video and in rare instances audio
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.
