Breaking News Writer, Digital News

Job Description

CNN Digital is the most powerful news brand on the internet, reaching millions of people across platforms and around the world every day. We are journalists, designers and technologists, all united by a powerful mission to inform, engage and empower the world. Join the most trusted and recognized name in news and be a part of a dynamic global team of smart, collaborative and thoughtful journalists doing essential work at a critical time.

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The Job

CNN's Breaking/Live News Team is across the biggest, most relevant, and engaging stories around the globe while focusing on creating a dynamic live experience for our readers. Our team of editors and writers jump on everything - from wildfires, weather events, and elections to the Grammys, Olympics, and SCOTUS hearings. We're covering the most significant events in real time and across all time zones. This team has an insatiable appetite for breaking news and chasing fast-moving stories. Join the CNN Breaking/Live News Team as a breaking news writer and help cover history. This position is a Tuesday-Saturday.

The Daily

This position is primarily a breaking news writer role, and the ideal candidate will:
• You'll be writing real-time breaking news posts and monitoring multiple breaking events for CNN's live updates platform. No story is too big or too small.
• You'll pitch stories and collaborate with team members on daily news priorities and future live stories.
• You'll track constantly changing and emerging newsmakers and fast-moving storylines.
• You'll work quickly to familiarize yourself with the major players in any breaking story, and coordinate with newsgathering partners from around the globe

The Essentials
• 4+ years of digital storytelling experience and a college degree or equivalent.
• Willingness to work nights and weekends. Flexibility with your schedule, to account for major breaking news events, is vital to this role.
• Experience, comfortability, and a thirst for breaking news stories is a must. This is not a features-writing, investigative or beat reporting role. An ideal candidate not only can juggle stories on a wide array of topics but thrives in such an environment.
• Genuine interest of breaking news and a curiosity and passion for how it travels across the internet - from social to alerts.
• Sharp and fast writer with the ability to write a headline, and a sharp, precise paragraph that captures the essence of the story.
• Strong collaborator and communicator as we are a truly cross-functional team that works with nearly every desk and department teams and bureaus.
• Ability to work quickly under pressure and collaborate closely with others is essential.
• Position is required to work in person at one of our locations in the United States. WarnerMedia requires anyone working in our workplaces in the US to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Exemptions to this vaccine requirement are available to those entitled to reasonable accommodations for religious or medical reasons.

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@warnermedia.com.

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