G/O Media

G/O Media is the publisher of the web’s most original media brands, including Gizmodo, Deadspin, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Quartz, The A.V. Club, The Inventory, The Root, The Onion, The Takeout and reaches over 100 million unique visitors a month. We connect with the young, diverse audiences that are shaping our future. Through fearless journalism, provoking comedy, and high-impact storytelling, we elevate the stories and issues our readers and viewers are passionate about. 

About the role:

Quartz is seeking a talented, high-metabolism business lifestyle writer to cover the most interesting stories in wealth, luxury, and the intersection of the two. We’ll provide a supportive environment that values entrepreneurialism and offers constructive feedback and career growth. You’ll bring strong news judgment, crisp writing, a collaborative spirit, and genuine enthusiasm for covering a wide range of business lifestyle stories. We’ll be looking for speed, accuracy, and creative approaches to stories and storytelling formats for covering interesting and noteworthy business lifestyle topics. This includes how the world’s richest people invest or can invest their money, and how they spend or can spend it on luxury real estate, travel, retail, and more.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Pitch, take assignments, report, and write hourly, daily, and other stories on the business and culture of wealth and luxury, delivering high-quality and timely copy.
• Help drive audience growth by using digital best practices and innovative storytelling techniques.
• Foster strong, collaborative relationships with editors and reporters across the newsroom.

Qualifications:

• At least 1-3 years’ experience as a reporter for a digital news publisher. Lifestyle or business news experience preferred.
• Ability to juggle multiple stories of different types, at different speeds, and on different topics.
• Some understanding of digital best practices — including story selection, framing, and SEO — is preferred.
• A passion for hourly and daily news, and the proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

This position is covered under the collective bargaining agreement of the WGA-E with a minimum of $64,000.00 up to a range of $65,000.00 annually, dependent upon years of related experience.

G/O Media is deeply committed to fostering a transparently inclusive workplace environment and people of color, women, people with disabilities, veterans, and LGBTQIA+ candidates are very strongly encouraged to apply. Our company-wide mission is to reach very diverse audiences and so, we are deeply committed to having teams and leaders that reflect this mission.

In-Office Policy:

We're better together! G/O Media is back in office with 6 work-from-home days. This role is based in our New York City.

Vaccination policy:

The company is committed to public health and to the safety and wellbeing of our colleagues, visitors, and volunteers. As such, we have adopted a policy requiring all employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 or to meet the legal guidelines for an exemption.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy:

G/O Media provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Warning:

We have recently become aware that individuals not associated with G/O Media have fraudulently used our name – and fictitious employee names– to solicit applications for fake and real jobs, to conduct fake job interviews and to make fake job offers. Any request to schedule an interview and any bona fide offer of employment will only come from an authorized representative of G/O Media with an email address “@g-omedia.com”.

We will never require an applicant to provide credit card or banking information to cover any supposed advance costs. If you have provided personal information in connection with a fake job offer or interview and you are concerned, we suggest that you take appropriate action.

G/O Media takes these activities very seriously and are taking appropriate steps to shut down this fraudulent activity.