Insider is looking for a paid editorial fellow to join our Business Contributors and Freelance team in June 2023.

The contributors fellow will report to the senior editor of contributors and freelance. You'll have a knack for spotting and telling compelling human-interest stories related to tech, money, entertainment, side hustles, and business news. You'll help us to expand our contributor coverage by finding writers and sources, brainstorming, coordinating, interviewing, writing, or editing a steady pipeline of smart and engaging personal essays, as-told-to-style stories, and book excerpts aimed at our business audience. The role is an excellent opportunity to edit stories from outside contributors and to interview and then write as-told-to stories about sources.

The Contributors and Freelance team works across the entire business division of Insider to bring in outside voices — contributors, high-profile thought leaders and experts, personal essayists, professional freelance writers, and authors — to help us cover the people, companies, and ideas changing our world. We personalize and humanize Insider's business coverage with first-person stories, personal essays, as-told-to stories, and op-eds and work with a large roster of national and international freelance journalists to report stories that supplement the work of our internal desks: tech, finance, retail, transportation, media, healthcare, advertising, and more.

The ideal candidate should have a knack for spotting what makes a great story and be comfortable with interviewing and communicating with people, and have an endless curiosity about people's lives, careers, and stories. Previous professional writing and storytelling experience is a huge asset.

We're looking for someone with the following:

• An interest in tech, money, entertainment, books, and business news coverage — must be a voracious consumer of social media, podcasts, and newsletters.
• Experience reporting and writing (school publications are great)
• A deep curiosity about people's lives and voracious reading habits
• An ability to work quickly and collaboratively with a fast-paced team
• Proofreading, copyediting, and fact checking skills
• An ability to problem solve independently and a willingness to learn and incorporate feedback
• A good sense for what Business Insider readers will find interesting
• The initiative and drive to pitch writers, story ideas, and books
• Experience writing headlines and social copy
• Experience working and inputting stories into a CMS
• A good eye for photo/visual information
• An ability to file multiple stories per week
• Strong time-management skills

The Insider Fellowship Program is for early career journalists who want to spend six months learning from a newsroom full of passionate, dedicated journalists. Fellows are assigned to teams and become experts in digital storytelling. They produce real work that is distributed to our audience of millions, and by the end of six months, they are prepared for the next phase of their journalism careers.

• Fellows are paid $20 per hour (overtime when needed and approved)
• PTO and paid holidays
• Eligible for medical, dental, and vision benefits on 91st day of employment

For more information on the Insider Fellowship Program, visit: https://www.insider-inc.com/careers/fellowship-program.

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