Description
Job Summary
The Flyover is a family of morning email publications that cover a wide range of news for over 1 million Americans.
We’re expanding our coverage to seven days per-week, and we're looking for a Weekend Writer to work on Fridays and Saturdays. You'll be the primary writer for the editions you work on, and you'll work alongside your Editor to complete the writing process each day.
This is a remote role in Fort Collins, CO that comes with contract compensation of $275 per day.
www.jointheflyover.com
Responsibilities
Story Selection
You'll be choosing stories to write about and sources to reference, with the input of your Editor. These decisions will be guided by the overall content strategy and based on previous engagement.
Copywriting
You'll work with your editor to develop and maintain a writing voice that matches our larger content strategy. This will involve final edits and revisions aimed at creating a consistent product.
Requirements
Exceptional writing and editing skills. This role requires more than a “competent” writer; you’ll need to adopt The Flyover’s tone and write easy, direct prose, and you’ll edit others’ work to the same standard. We need someone with the natural ability to sniff out confusion, cringe, mistakes, and anything else that lowers our quality level. Finally, you’ll need to do all this at a reasonable clip and keep our processes on schedule.
News judgment. Story selection is a huge part of the role, and you’ll need the ability to sift through the day’s news and decide which stories are most interesting and fit our brand. Additionally, you need the ability to identify the “big idea” in a story and distil it down into a brief paragraph.
Basic technical competence. This role requires a quick & confident PC user. The technical learning curve is shallow, but it requires someone who is generally comfortable with computer usage and is willing to learn new things.