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of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for.Job Description
About the Role
Wirecutter is looking for an ambitious writer with an analytical mind to join our Deals Team. Every day, you’ll scour the internet to find the real deals on Wirecutter picks — leaving all the mediocre and straight-up phony discounts behind. You’ll write about the great deals you find and publish them on our deals page, and also post your findings and field reader questions on social media.
This position reports to the Senior Editor of the Deals team.
This role has the potential to be remote.
Responsibilities:
- Finding great deals for our readers: Scan internal and external deal sources for discounts on Wirecutter picks and evaluate them based on our standards
- Creating affiliate links: Build and tag affiliate links with the appropriate tracking
- Posting to the deals page: Write lean copy that gives readers perspective on deal pricing and relevant information from our review
- Tweeting: Write copy for social media to alert our followers to great deals
- Writing articles: write digests of the best deals of the day, single deal “love letters,” and articles offering reader-serving deals insights
- Updating our price tracking: Coordinate with the deals team and larger editorial staff to maintain our price tracking data
- Covering Black Friday, Prime Day, and more: Be an essential part of how we help readers avoid bad deals and find good ones during these mega-events
- Pitch new article ideas and coverage ideas that can make Wirecutter Deals even more useful to its readers
- Perform related work as assigned
Basic Qualifications:
- Strong copywriting and editing skills
- A familiarity with the Wirecutter voice and approach to deal coverage, and a passion for our journalistic standards and ethics
- An analytical mindset and ability to leverage data and SEO resources
- Can work weekends if required.
- This position is covered by the collective bargaining agreement between Wirecutter and The NewsGuild of New York, CWA Local 31003, AFL-CIO.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ability to work with a remote team, with an emphasis on internal communications
- Enjoys helping others and likes removing the marketing spin from deals to help readers get what they want and get on with their life.
The annual base pay range for this role is between $71,000.00 and $82,000.00.
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