Staff Writer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Expand The Atlantic’s coverage of Hollywood and the wider entertainment sector.

• Report on the business aspects and industry dynamics of Hollywood.

• Write about influential figures in Hollywood, industry discussions, controversies, legal disputes, and behind-the-scenes developments.

• Assist readers in comprehending the shifts taking place within the cultural sector.

• Provide scoops and timely analysis with speed.

• Produce in-depth stories for a general-interest audience over extended timelines.

• Reveal untold narratives and identify the most effective way to present them.

• Collaborate within the Culture team and work closely with a tight-knit group.

⛳️ Requirements

• Seasoned reporter with considerable reporting experience.

• Proven ability to influence discussions surrounding culture and the cultural sector.

• Strong magazine sensibility.

• Outstanding writing abilities.

• Deep interest in ideas-driven journalism.

• Extremely high standards for clarity, accuracy, and journalistic integrity.

• Naturally collaborative mindset and eagerness to work within a close-knit team.

• Motivation to engage in urgent and significant stories.

• Sophisticated understanding of how business, technology, and national politics intersect with the cultural industry.

• Experience in delivering scoops, timely analysis, and thoroughly reported stories.

• Willingness and ability to work nights, early mornings, and weekends when necessary.

🏝️ Benefits

• Guild position.

• Equal Opportunity Employer.

• COVID-19 vaccination policy with provisions for disability/medical contraindication or sincerely-held religious beliefs.