Weekend WriterThe Flyover

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 hybrid role in Fort Collins, CO (remote also considered for highly qualified candidates) 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.

Qualifications

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.

Requirements
  • Digital Content Strategy1 - 3 years
  • EditingStrong - Strong
  • Journalism1 - 3 years
  • PC SavvyGood - Strong
  • WritingStrong - Strong
About Us

The Flyover is a family of publications that delivers wide-ranging, readable news to everyday Americans. We care a lot about curation, brevity, and easy reading.

Unique Considerations

We are a small business, and we need folks with “all-in” attitudes that are flexible, easy to get along with, and willing to jump in to do whatever it takes to get a quality product out the door.


Occasional late-breaking news will require you to jump on in the evenings and make adjustments to your editions.

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