Staff Writer Job Description
Staff writer
provides comprehensive editing for The Scene (alumni magazine), One College Circle e-newsletter, parent communications, first-year student communications, admissions publications, development materials and other publications and communications vehicles.
Staff Writer Duties & Responsibilities
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Brainstorming SEO and social media packaging for stories
Experience working with social media and SEO strategies
Maintain a daily presence on a new website covering clean eating
Follow the reading the top sports, human performance, and medical journals, attending industry events and meeting with experts as needed
Design, Write and Implement systemic and scripted story focused dialogue and text content throughout the game
Write engaging, thoroughly reported stories
Three plus years experience reporting and writing for national or major regional publications, print or online
The ability to pivot from short online pieces to longer, immersive features--and to recognize when a story deserves one or the other treatment
Able to handle a workload that includes online contributions, service stories and features
Experience writing and reporting on wine in particular is optimal
Staff Writer Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Staff Writer
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Education for Staff Writer
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Employers hiring for the staff writer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Journalism, Writing, Communications, English, Technical, Science, Education, Marketing, Technology, Computer Science
Skills for Staff Writer
Desired skills for staff writer include:
SEO
Members of Congress
Pittsburgh Penguins are
HTML
Internal communications platforms
Intranets
Videos and other distribution vehicles
AP style
National and state-level political landscape
Congress and federal agencies
Desired experience for staff writer includes:
Passion for action games
Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism, Communications or a closely related field or its equivalent
Ability to think creatively in a fast-paced, evolving newsroom
Must have an understanding of digital storytelling, production and analytics, and social media
Act as a representative of the Chronicle in the Bay Area wine, spirits and beer communities
Professional culinary and wine experience a plus
Staff Writer Examples
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Staff Writer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of staff writer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for staff writer
- Work with all departments
- Research and author deals, promo and coupon codes for BestProducts.com
- Identify the value proposition of deals and determine what warrants coverage
- Work with editors of vertical to determine trending topics/products in their space
- Work directly within the CMS to build deal content
- Writes 7-9 stories a week
- Shares web posting duties
- Contributing content daily as an active member of the reporting team, ensuring readers of complete, accurate and fair coverage
- Meeting deadlines with copy that is clean of spelling and grammatical errors, placing the highest emphasis on accuracy and reporting, contributing and producing photos and videos to enhance website and print content
- Working the equivalent of a 5-day, 40-hour week, which will include night shifts and occasional weekend work
Qualifications for staff writer
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience, preferably in business or tech journalism
- 1 to 2 years of professional experience writing for an online publication, ideally in the product deals space
- Other stories and duties as assigned
- Deploy social media to publicize CQ Roll Call
- Writing approximately 7-8 stories daily for publication on ETonline.com, on a variety of topics determined to be priorities by editors
- Master the basics of the energy and environment beat, showing an understanding of the areas you’ll be covering, the various interests that bring pressure to bear on producing or changing policies, and an understanding of how Congress addresses energy and environmental issues
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Our company is looking to fill the role of staff writer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for staff writer
- Reporting and writing service-driven stories about health, fitness, and nutrition
- 3-5 years of experience at a digital editorial publication
- Degree in journalism or related major
- Familiarity and significant experience with science-based health and psych reporting, including reading and interpreting studies, interviewing qualified medical experts
- Familiarity with proper pronouns for gender identities, sensitivity around topics like sexual assault, knowledge of kink, — in other words, general awareness of contemporary/progressive sex positivity
- Experience writing innovative, surprising service-driven stories
- Researching and writing daily articles on subjects such as physician compensation and fees, malpractice, physician supply, practice management and clinic office technology
- Research physician issues and trends to advance Medical Post's leadership position in the market
- Writing feature and department magazine articles across a broad range of subject areas, including business strategy, advertising, grocery retail, tech and consumer trends
- Reporting on industry-related events and writing daily digital stories under deadline pressure longer form feature writing for Canadian Grocer and Marketing magazines
Qualifications for staff writer
- Understanding of structured, task-based writing is a plus
- Deploy social media to build awareness of CQ and the reporter's work
- Recognize the interests and expectations of Westlaw subscribers related to news on energy and the environment
- Creating a network of sources
- Research industry trends to advance Canadian Grocer’s and Marketing’s leadership position in the market
- Research and write internal communications that are clear, correct and support firm goals
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of staff writer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for staff writer
- Serve as primary writer or co-writer for a variety of high-profile written materials, including cases, policy briefs, website content, blogs, news articles and other media pieces, working closely with a faculty member or other technical lead to ensure content accurately reflects the underlying science and meets EPoD strategic communications objectives
- Work on Saturdays and Sundays three days during the week
- Assist in drafting columns, newsletters, briefing materials, reports, letters and speeches, other materials as needed consistent with the District’s vision
- Have a finger on the pulse to fast publish trending pieces daily, with a focus on pop culture and viral news
- Use data and metrics to inform and improve performance of future stories
- Write and build 5 to 10 stories per day
- Do photo research and source from various outlets
- Be flexible and willing to cover different lifestyle topics
- Want to hit the road in a flash to cover a story
- Have an interest in writing longer-term stories that will appear in the print magazine
Qualifications for staff writer
- Bachelor’s degree (English, journalism or cultural studies preferred) with a minimum of three years of communications, journalism, PR or marketing experience
- Background in golf preferred
- At least 2years - preferably 3 years - of experience in writing, editing, or marketing communications
- Demonstrated ability to write sharp copy on a tight deadline with minimal edits
- Strong writing, copyediting, and verbal skills, interpersonal skills
- Exceptional attention to detail and ability to effectively multitask in a deadline-driven environment
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a staff writer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for staff writer
- Writing minimum five features per week for The Daily
- Providing copy for associated projects, including email, video and presentations
- Researching stories, conducting interviews and attending shoots where appropriate
- Generating story ideas and attending weekly ideas meetings
- Supporting Daily Editor and Deputy Daily Editor where necessary
- Working with social media team on copy and content strategy
- Meeting immediate turnaround deadlines with copy that is clean of spelling and grammatical errors, placing the highest emphasis on accuracy and reporting, contributing and producing photos and videos to improve website and print content
- Conceive and write approximately 25 big-picture articles/series and eight shorter pieces on state policy developments and trends in the states each year
- Develop expertise and a wide array of contacts on specific subjects
- Identify data or content for multimedia and data-driven stories
Qualifications for staff writer
- News writing and/or experience in higher education a plus
- Research and interview experience a plus
- Highly organized, self-directed, and proactive in reviewing analytics and usage data
- Social media background a plus
- Demonstrated experience in traditional communications writing, , authoring press releases, media advisories
- Excellent writing skills, especially for public dissemination, including for the web and social media
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Our company is looking to fill the role of staff writer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for staff writer
- Work within the voice of Supercall, channeling the person at the party you want to hang out with
- Work constructively with the feedback you get from the Senior Editor, Executive Editor and Audience Team
- Developing and writing a steady stream of bylined content focused on iOS, iPhone, and other Apple products and services
- Scripting and appearing in Macworld videos
- Owning a number of hardware beats key to the Apple ecosystem – everything from wireless earphones to laptop bags to iPhone cases
- Stay on top of the latest research and flag important themes that we should be covering on a continuing basis
- Find Popular Science angles in stories you wouldn’t necessarily consider science stories
- Daily news writing
- Collaborate with sales and service team, participate in RFP strategy meetings, gather information from subject matter experts, and create presentations and other related sales documents
- Working with Pitchfork editors to develop ideas for stories, both timely and evergreen
Qualifications for staff writer
- Demonstrated interest in public policy and economic development topics
- Working knowledge of design & presentation platforms
- Basic knowledge of graphic design including Photoshop Elements a plus
- Ability to handle daily, short-term and long-term assignments simultaneously
- Years of experience working specifically on student-focused communications
- Solid knowledge of UNIX/Linux and/or Windows system administration tasks, such as role administration, license management, security, networking, and distributed server environments