Job Description

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.

Engadget is hiring a Senior Editor to run the site on weekends and contribute news stories and deals posts three weekdays a week. The ideal candidate is conversant in consumer tech and is comfortable covering breaking news in a fast-paced environment. You dont need to be a subject-matter expert in everything we cover, but a broad understanding of our bread-and-butter beats is a definite plus. Because youll be working on breaking news, and will have minimal supervision two days a week, having solid news judgment and being able to quickly turn around clean copy are all paramount.

Responsibilities:

Look after the site on weekends. This entails selecting stories, writing some up yourself, and occasionally scheduling articles written by other contributors.

Update the homepage DL on your weekend shift.

Write news stories and deal posts three weekdays each week. (The exact schedule is negotiable.)

Attend embargoed news briefings as needed.

Help cover tradeshows as needed. This may include in-person and/or online-only events.

We may also assign you longer-form pieces such as product reviews and buying guides.

Requirements:

A familiarity with and sincere interest in consumer technology.

Strong news judgment.

Experience working in a newsroom, preferably covering consumer technology, science, autos or another related field.

Must be comfortable covering fast-moving breaking news stories.

Willingness to work a regular weekend shift.

Works well with others and is receptive to feedback.

Preferred:

Basic photography and photo-editing skills in the event we assign you the occasional product review.

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form ( ) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles dont require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, youll be given notice to make arrangements.

If youre curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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