Weekends Writer, National Breaking News, Digital

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.

The Job

News doesn't stop for weekends, and neither do we! CNN Digital is redefining what it means to work weekends in a newsroom, leading the industry in covering the world's most significant news events and providing audiences with smart, engaging and unique counter-programming.
Our weekend staff is excellent, continuously breaking stories, writing distinctive features and setting audience and engagement records. We're light, agile and obsessed with producing strong, accurate and timely journalism.

We cover everything – from the pandemic and the racial justice movement to Tom Brady's seventh Super Bowl victory, Drake's ''Certified Lover Boy'' and so much more.

Join CNN Digital's National desk as a weekend news writer and you'll be at the center of it all.

The Daily
• This person writes stories that are published and shared across CNN's mobile and desktop sites, apps, social accounts and other platforms.
• This writer will work on CNN Digital's National desk, but this is a general assignment role; coverage will include national and international news, health, climate, entertainment and more.
• This talented journalist will often help shape story ideas and angles around complex topics and will pitch and execute stories on their own. When a big story breaks, writers will take the lead in starting and updating the main story for all platforms, keeping us sharp and fast on breaking news.
• This writer must be skilled at finding ways to cover the news of the day in distinctive ways that resonate with audiences.
• CNN's writers are skillful and swift. They turn in clean, crisp and conversational copy on the first draft.
• This person knows how to write briefly and breezily when needed but can also handle high-concept stories off the news.
• S/he knows how to write in formats that go beyond the traditional article - including visual stories and explanatory work that helps audiences understand the news.
• A critical component of the job will be assisting with the live stories that are an essential part of our breaking news coverage
• This person must care deeply about accuracy, urgency and integrity and in maintaining and growing the trust CNN has with audiences worldwide

The Essentials
• Willingness to work weekends: This is a weekend role, with a schedule that will include Saturdays and Sundays. Hours may include early mornings or late evenings.
• Your great ideas: A newsroom is only as strong as the stories its journalists find and pitch. We want your absolute best.
• 4+ years of digital storytelling experience.
• College degree or equivalent.
• This position is required to work in person at one of our US locations. WarnerMedia requires anyone working in our US workplaces to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Exemptions to this vaccine requirement are available to those entitled to reasonable accommodations for religious or medical reasons.

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