We are looking for a creative, organized, hard-working editorial assistant with exceptional writing and reporting skills to work on PEOPLE's food and lifestyle editorial team—working simultaneously on both PEOPLE magazine and People.com. This person should be a quick, capable and accurate writer with an understanding of the fast pace of news, the PEOPLE voice and a knack for storytelling. An interest in chefs, cooking, and restaurants is also a must, and a knowledge of food and lifestyle celebrities is a plus. The candidate should have excellent organizational and time management skills.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, English or related field. Interest in entertainment news and food/lifestyle topics is desired, ideally with a past internship in either.

Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Excellent writing, reporting and editing skills.
Passion for journalism with sound editorial judgment.
Advanced fact checking and research skills—must be resourceful, fast, savvy and accurate.
Must display high degree of interest in food, entertainment and lifestyle topics and personalities, with knowledge of media in general.
Good interpersonal skills.
Proficiency with Mac, InCopy, WordPress, digital publishing tools (SEO, analytics, social media platforms, etc.).
Ability to multi-task, prioritize and organize.
Able to think creatively to pitch and conceptualize viable stories.

The TODAY Show and NBC News Digital are looking for an editorial assistant to help optimize and produce shoppable content for TODAY.com and NBCNews.com with a focus on SEO. This role will work closely with the Commerce, Editorial and Audience Development teams to create and optimize content for search. The ideal candidate will have a mix of editorial and analytical skills. He/she should be able to use data and analytics to drive editorial decisions and should be able to choose products based on what’s trending and what the target audience is interested in.

Job Description:
- Write shopping content for TODAY and NBC News with a focus on SEO
- Build commerce posts in the CMS
- Optimize existing and new commerce posts around affiliate partnerships and search keywords
- Participate in regular editorial meetings
- Collaborate with commerce editors identify SEO opportunities
- Track metrics, SEO trends and keyword opportunities and iterate based on findings

Experience:
- 1-2 years editorial experience, commerce experience a plus
- Knowledge of or experience with search optimization a plus
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to deal with all levels of management
- Flexible, organized, self-starter, and extremely detail-oriented – able to seek out answers and resources on own

Skills:
- Firm grasp of spelling, grammar, and punctuation rules (AP Style)
- Ability to manage many different tasks at once
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment
- Proactive thinker with understanding of how to apply data
- Awareness of NBC News properties, executives, policies, guidelines and practices
- Knowledge of affiliate marketing platforms including Skimlinks, Amazon, Linkshare and Rakuten a plus
- Experience working with Google AdWords, Google Trends or Brightedge a plus

TODAY Digital, the multi-platform arm of America’s favorite morning show, is looking for an associate commerce editor join our ecommerce team and grow our social reach. In this position you will help write shoppable content for TODAY.com aimed at distribution across social channels and platforms like Apple News and AMP. The associate editor will be responsible for daily optimization and creation of commerce stories and will help manage the Shop TODAY social presence on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter. The ideal candidate will have a mix of editorial and analytical skills. They should have the ability to create shoppable editorial content across fashion, home, parents, beauty, health and food. They should be able to use data and analytics to drive editorial decisions and should be able to choose products based on what’s trending and what the target audience is interested in.

Job Description:
• Write shopping content for the Shop TODAY site
• Monitor the news and social space for editorial pitches
• Participate in regular editorial meetings
• Manage the Shop TODAY Facebook page and pitch to the TODAY main Facebook page and Instagram page
• Manage shoppable Pinterest content
• Optimize posts for distribution across newsletters, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Apple News and AMP
Create social content with affiliate partnerships in mind
• Build commerce posts in the CMS
• Work with the audience development teams on stories for paid campaigns

Experience:
• 0-1 years editorial experience, commerce experience a plus
• Experience working with broadcast, celebrities or show producers a plus
• Market work experience for a lifestyle brand a plus

Skills
• Firm grasp of spelling, grammar, and punctuation rules (AP Style)
• Attention to detail and ability to make quick decisions
• Ability to manage many different tasks at once
• Strong understanding of data, analytics and excel
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work across multiple teams
• Knowledge of affiliate marketing platforms including Skimlinks, Amazon, Linkshare and Rakuten a plus

TODAY Digital is seeking a thorough, self-motivated editor who has a passion for digital story-telling and journalism. This person understands the need for detail-oriented editing, and has a comprehensive knowledge of AP style. You should be a news junkie with a passion for lifestyle and pop culture. You should have experience news editing, line editing and headline writing. You should also have a flair for the fun, creative and unexpected in text, data visualization and multimedia. You will be partnering with a team of digital video producers, so experience in video storytelling is a plus.

Job Duties:
Work with the editorial and original video teams to ensure that video content follows AP Style and TODAY Digital Style guides. QC and copy edit text for articles, in addition to reviewing and editing text in videos. Check for consistency with our style guide, as well as audio, visual issues in video. Write and edit headlines and captions for broadcast videos. This is a Mon-Fri, dayside position.

Qualifications/Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree required
• 4+ of professional experience in journalism
• Comprehensive knowledge of AP Style
• Proven news judgment and high ethical standards
• Must have the desire to work in a creative, demanding, competitive environment.
• Must be a skilled editor with outstanding communication skills.

Additional Job Requirements:
• Interested candidate must submit a resume/CV to be considered
• Must be willing to work in New York
• Working knowledge of digital media technology, particularly content-management tools.

TODAY Digital, the multiplatform arm of America’s favorite morning show, is looking for an associate photo editor.

The job entails:
· Researching, selecting and editing editorial and stock images for TODAY stories and galleries on TODAY.com and our social platforms.
· Contribute to projects like recipe photo shoots, awards show style slideshows and breaking news events.
· Find compelling visual stories around the globe to produce and share with the TODAY audience.
· Produce light social graphics done within Photoshop for social media use.
· Create social platform banners and other lead art for use on-site.

Essential Requirements
· A BA degree in journalism or other discipline emphasizing high storytelling and multimedia standards.
· Strong visual editing skills of still images and video.
· Work fluently between multiple content and CMS types to publish work on deadline.
· Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, and some experience with non-linear video editing programs like Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.
· Proven news judgment, high ethical standards and wonderful interpersonal skills (be a delightful person!)
· 2+ of experience producing, editing and working in editorial photo production.

Desired Requirements
· Appreciation for TODAY’s broad range of topics and personalities – hard news, entertainment, lifestyle, celebrities, newsmakers and ordinary individuals - with a good grasp of topics and stories of high interest to women and young families is necessary
· Flexibility and the ability to meet deadlines while managing multiple projects. Must be self-motivated while maintaining a collaborative team orientation
· Strong candidates with equivalent experience and education may be considered
· This job is located in New York City

160 Fifth Avenue
Full time
R0000434

POSITION SUMMARY

Spectrum is looking for an experienced and savvy data reporter to bring a new era of quantitative reporting to our site.

Spectrum is an autism news site intended for scientists, although many non-scientists read us too. We seek a data maven who is excited to analyze data from autism research and produce valuable databases, maps and visualizations.

You'll take on long-term projects, including creating databases of autism drugs and designing interactive graphics, such as our map of global autism prevalence. You'll also produce data-driven news stories and accompanying graphics.

You will work with our award-winning team to find the stories behind the numbers in autism research, hold scientists accountable, and find trends by connecting dots. This is a fantastic opportunity for a data-visualization expert looking to dive into an exciting and rapidly growing field.

Bring at least three years of experience in data-driven reporting. We offer a generous salary and truly excellent benefits.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Assess the news value of data and data analysis
• Report data-driven news and feature stories and help produce accompanying graphics and interactive applications
• Collaborate with the multimedia director, reporters and developers to create high-quality, data-driven graphics and elements to accompany traditional stories
• Build new forms of storytelling devices to illustrate ideas that aren't best communicated with text alone
• Write news, profile and long-form stories that educate, challenge and inspire our audience of scientists
• Cultivate sources, embed yourself in the community and be the first to know about trends and provocative advances
• Attend and report from conferences
• Keep abreast of trends in digital storytelling as well as programming techniques

JOB REQUIREMENTS
• Attention to detail and ability to thoroughly check work for accuracy
• Working knowledge of Excel
• Proficiency with relational databases and structured query language (SQL)
• Strong analytical, research and investigative skills
• Experience with public-records requests for databases
• Familiarity with math and basic statistics for data analysis
• Experience analyzing data with code (Python, R)
• Familiarity with mapping applications using geographic information systems (GIS)
• Command of HTML, CSS and JS
• Knowledge of D3 and Illustrator is a plus.

REQUIRED APPLICATION MATERIALS
• Please submit a resume, a portfolio of your work and cover letter stating your interest in the position.

The Simons Foundation's Diversity Commitment

Many of the greatest ideas and discoveries come from a diverse mix of minds, backgrounds and experiences, and we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment. The Simons Foundation provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic disposition, neurodiversity, disability, veteran status or any other protected category under federal, state and local law.

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160 Fifth Avenue
Full time
R0000525

Spectrum's award-winning news team is looking for a high-energy reporter to join our lively newsroom in New York City.

Spectrum is the go-to destination for autism news. The site also features long-form 'deep dives' on topics ranging from unproven therapies to autism in Africa. These articles have won top journalism awards. Spectrum stories are syndicated by The Atlantic, Scientific American, Slate and The Washington Post, among other popular outlets.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious science journalist to develop a beat in the fast-moving field of autism.

You would write news stories, profiles and features that educate, challenge and inspire our audience of scientists. Genetics, cognition and behavior, research ethics and molecular neuroscience quicken your heart. You will cultivate sources, embed yourself in the research community and be the first to know about trends and provocative advances.

Spectrum is funded by the Simons Foundation but is editorially independent.

Bring at least three years of journalism experience - preferably including experience in digital journalism - along with a solid biology background and impeccable news judgment. We offer a generous salary and truly excellent benefits.

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Debtwire, part of Acuris, is the global market leader for real-time independent news, analysis and data on leveraged finance. For more than 10 years, we have established a track record of scoop-driven journalism based on our pioneering approach to covering highly indebted companies.

We are currently looking for a reporter to focus on breaking news in the corporate credit market.

The selected candidate will be adept at building a network of contacts to deliver exclusive, source-driven copy. Journalism experience is preferred. Applicants must apply with a cover letter, and should possess strong writing skills and a drive to break news on this fast-paced, real-time beat.

This position is based in New York. The successful candidate will be willing to attend out-of-town source meetings and conferences on occasion. The job will also involve regular collaboration with our data and analysis teams, as well as with editorial teams on other Acuris products.

Debtwire, an Acuris company and the leading provider of news and analysis for the global fixed-income markets, is seeking a New York-based reporter to cover Latin American credit. Our Latin American product provides sophisticated investors and advisors with deep-dive coverage of in-region public and private companies, with an emphasis on high-yield, distressed and restructuring borrowers. The role is focused on breaking news in the primary and secondary markets for performing credit, as part of team of journalists and credit analysts based in New York and throughout the region.

Responsibilities:

-Reporting, writing and filing copy on a daily basis
-Contributing to special projects such as forums, webinars and podcasts
-Assisting with developing coverage outside of assigned beats
-Cultivating and meeting with sources
In-region travel as necessary

Skills and Experience:

-Strong writing skills and an investigative mindset
-Time management and communication skills
-Networking and contact-building skills
-A self-starter attitude with a cooperative approach
-Spanish or Portuguese ability preferred
-Previous experience covering fixed-income markets or Latin America a plus

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Cryptocurrency is changing the future of money and at CoinDesk, the emerging technology’s leading publication, we're here chronicle the journey. But we know journalism is changing, and people want to consume their news in a variety of interactive media.

With that, CoinDesk is seeking a multimedia reporter who can find and tell compelling audio and video stories – both for our website and our social feeds – and reinvent the way the publication brings information to our audience.

The role will require:

Digital Skills

+ A high digital literacy and creativity
+ Acumen with social media (Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Periscope)
+ Experience shooting and editing video
+ Experience with standard CMS functions

Media Skills

+ Strong written communication skills
+ Strong eye for video quality
+ Some Adobe creative suite experience preferredbut not mandatory
+ Experience in production and post production assistance for published and streaming online media content.
+ Understanding of social media video formats

Bonus Skills

+ You’re great on camera
+ Familiarity with cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.