Reporter, Today Digital

Job Description

Responsibilities
Want to work with one of America's most loved and trusted brands? The TODAY Digital team covers newsmaking interviews, celebrity updates and cultural trends, and launches original and creative features. We're looking for a reporter to work a Tuesday - Saturday schedule – a generalist who can cover all topics and help build up our growing weekend coverage, bringing efficiency and clean writing, but also a fun voice and big ideas to the table. If you love to spot a story as it's going viral and have a great sense of what will turn into a talker before it's all over the internet, this is the job for you.

Responsibilities/Job Duties:
• Write strong, clean copy around the buzzy and trending stories that emerge each day. Find the interesting angles, elements and sources to make a story sing.
• Be familiar with the wide range of content TODAY typically covers.
• Be versatile – able to easily flex between topics like news, health, parenting, celebrity, and more.
• Follow the rules of AP Style and meticulously fact-check copy before filing.
• Able to distill a story into its most shareable and searchable elements, with SEO-friendly headlines and keywords.
• Pitch interesting and innovative stories – whether it's the story everyone will be talking about that day or an in-depth feature.

Qualifications/Requirements
• 4+ years of writing experience in a newsroom
• Expertise writing SEO and social headlines
• Ability to write clean, fast and accurate copy, headlines, and

photo and video captions
• Must be based in New York or LA

Desired Characteristics
• Have a gut instinct for a good story. You're decisive on

angles and assignments, and you write in a fun, clear,

TODAY-friendly voice.
• Quick and accurate at all times: Typos drive you crazy.

Factual errors keep you up at night. You stay calm under

pressure, think fast, and turn stories around quickly and

with no drama.
• Proactive – you're constantly in search of an amazing

story that hasn't been told.
• Speak fluent Instagram, Twitter and Facebook (extra

points for TikTok!). You're obsessed with the latest trends

and know how to turn those trends into shareable stories.
• Savvy with CrowdTangle, Domo and Chartbeat: You use

analytics to help guide story selection and pivot based on

performance.
• Armed with a positive attitude. You're ready to tackle any

and every story sent your way, regardless of topic.
• Desire to work in a creative, demanding, competitive but

highly rewarding news environment.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g3kwm9-3-149-234-141-42 in your application.