Staff Writer, Pop Culture

Job Description

Paramount+, a direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service from Paramount Global, combines live sports, breaking news, and a mountain of entertainment. The premium streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. The service is also the streaming home to unmatched sports programming, including every CBS Sports event, from golf to football to basketball and more, plus exclusive streaming rights for major sports properties, including some of the world's biggest and most popular soccer leagues. Paramount+ also enables subscribers to stream local CBS stations live across the US in addition to the ability to stream Paramount Streaming's other live channels: CBSN for 24/7 news, CBS Sports HQ for sports news and analysis, and ET Live for entertainment coverage.

Brand Overview:

PopCulture.com is an entertainment media website for a generation passionate about larger-than-life celebrities and hungry for all kinds of entertainment news. PopCulture reaches 15M unique users each month and is the go-to source for all things television, celebrity, trending news, and entertainment culture.

Role Details:

The writer will be primarily responsible for writing daily news desk articles that include but are not limited to scripted and reality TV news, celebrities, and general trending news. This is a nights and weekends role. The writer will work with the PopCulture editorial and content team, in a fun and fast-paced media-centric agile environment. As a writer, you will be responsible for producing eight articles each day while also being able to recognize content lanes that continue to grow PopCulture's influence in key areas.

Your Day-to-Day:
• Collaborate with editorial team members to produce the best of the best content
• Consistently hit target content frequency goals daily, monthly
• Help seek out entertainment news items that will move the needle
• Understand data-based writing so that PopCulture can stay at the top of each news cycle

What you bring to the team:

You have -
• Bachelor's in Journalism, Communications, Online Media or equivalent
• 2+ years of professional experience, with a broad range of skills and experience in online content

writing and distribution
• Strong understanding of reality tv, mainstream TV, celebrity culture, entertainment news and
online trends
• Know the most current entertainment news cycles
• You have experience with fast-paced, but quality writing for the Internet

You might also have -
• Strong initiative and the ability for creative thinking as it relates to PopCulture news desk workflow

and content production

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gp51ex-18-223-32-230-42 in your application.