Job Details
Senior Writer, Policy, The Verge
Summary
The Verge is looking for a senior reporter to cover the policy and politics of technology, including the 2024 US elections and beyond. You’ll spend your days finding big stories and breaking down enormously complex topics around technology lawmaking and more.
Category
Journalist/Reporter
Writers
Location
Remote Location
Time Period
Full Time
Posted Date
Nov 27, 2023
Start Date
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End Date
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Job Description
The Verge is looking for a senior reporter to cover the policy and politics of technology, including the 2024 US elections and beyond. You’ll spend your days finding big stories and breaking down enormously complex topics around technology lawmaking and more.
Senior reporters at The Verge are responsible for working with editors to identify and maintain a beat, then proactively generating stories on that beat. As tech policy reporter, your duties will be a mix of reporting on the news of the day and digging into longer-lead investigations that will drive news cycles of their own.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Developing your beat with coverage from news to larger reports and analysis.
- Working across our teams to find and explain stories around tech policy.
- Develop and nourish sources in the communities being affected by tech policy and with the companies and activists working for better tech policy.
- Proactively pitch news and analysis, and help vet stories.
- Help us maintain our collaborative and ambitious team culture.
WHO YOU ARE
You care deeply about politics and policy because of what they mean for people. You have a vision for strong, focused election coverage that doesn’t just report what candidates are telling voters, but presses them for the answers that matter — on topics ranging from online speech to the future of the FCC to the right to repair. You’ve published scoops and built a network of contacts and sources in the tech policy area.
Qualifications:
- Extensive experience reporting in the tech policy space.
- Experience covering a US election.
- Strong knowledge of tech policy and lawmaking.
- A roster of good contacts in politics and major tech companies.
- Strong writing skills, including the ability to identify compelling angles and develop them effectively.
If you think you have what it takes, but don't meet every single point in our job posting, please apply with a cover letter to let us know how you believe you can bring your unique skills to the Vox Media team or get in touch! We’ve hired chefs who became editors, DJs who became UX designers, and sommeliers who became writers.
WHERE YOU’LL WORK
This job is remote or hybrid. This job is able to be based in our New York office.
Pay Range: $88,000—$110,000 USD
Pay Range: $88,000—$110,000 USD
Job Type
Full Time
Weekly Limit
N/A
Shift
Day
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