Editor, Smart Cities Dive Job at Techtarget in Washington

About Informa TechTarget
Informa TechTarget (Nasdaq: TTGT) informs, influences and connects the world’s technology buyers and sellers, to accelerate growth from R&D to ROI.
With an unparalleled reach of over 220 highly targeted technology-specific websites and more than 50 million permissioned first-party audience members, Informa TechTarget has a unique understanding of and insight into technology markets.

Underpinned by those audiences and their data, we offer expert-led, data-driven, and digitally enabled services that deliver significant impact and measurable outcomes to our clients. We provide our customers with:

• Trusted information that shapes the industry and informs investment
• Intelligence and advice that guides and influences strategy
• Advertising that grows reputation and establishes thought leadership
• Custom content that engages and prompts action
• Intent and demand generation that more precisely targets and converts

Our organization is committed to sustainability, diversity, wellbeing, and ethical working practices. Visit informatechtarget.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Industry Dive is a leading business journalism company. Nearly 13 million decision-makers across 20+ competitive industries rely on its exclusive insight and analysis delivered through 26 publications. Industry Dive was founded in 2012 to provide business leaders with the information they need to move industries forward. Our team of reporters, editors, designers, and marketers delivers insights and programs that spark innovation, fuel growth and shape agendas in every industry we cover.

Job Description

Smart Cities Dive, a publication of Informa TechTarget, is looking for an editor to report, write, edit and manage daily newsletter production. We're seeking a talented journalist who wants to break news and dig deep into the issues driving city operations and management as well as shape the team’s coverage for optimal impact and readability.

Smart Cities Dive covers how local governments are using new strategies and technologies to become more open, accountable, efficient, effective, equitable, resilient, responsive, and sustainable. In addition to our coverage of how cities and counties use technology and data, we look at innovations in transportation, housing and zoning, climate change and resilience, buildings and design, public safety and governance.

You will own your beat by cultivating relationships with key stakeholders and consistently staying on top of important developments. You will pitch and report several original stories each week and write deeper analyses, features or investigative pieces throughout the year. You'll also help shape the content of staff and freelance reporters by workshopping story ideas, providing constructive feedback, editing copy and building the newsletter daily. You’ll be a part of a fast-growing digital product in a growing newsroom that gives you the freedom to showcase your creativity.

Informa TechTarget serves business-to-business audiences with award-winning journalism, providing news and insights that leaders have come to rely on. The company headquarters are in Newton, Mass.; this publication is based in Washington, D.C., and offers the opportunity for in person, remote or hybrid work.

Qualifications

• Experience level: 3 years at a minimum, strong preference for direct experience reporting on one or more of the topics listed above.
• Proven track record of reporting, writing and editing news stories, preferably on city issues, technologies or related topics. An ability to produce ambitious and innovative reporting projects.
• Ability to quickly take ownership of specific beats through original reporting and source-building.
• Aptitude for shaping news stories for the government and business leaders that serve this space, including through the use of data journalism, public financial filings or source documents and public records requests.
• Ability to coach and guide reporters to cover news and develop longer-term features.
• Experience with substantive editing, copyediting and fact-checking content as well as writing SEO-savvy web headlines.
• Strong digital news knowledge and aptitude.
• Comfort with social media and the ability to build an audience on major platforms to enhance the scope and reach of your work.
• Proven ability to consistently conceive of, report, write and publish same-day news stories.
• Ability to work with a fast-paced, dynamic team that publishes a daily audience-specific newsletter.
• Curiosity and inclination to dig deeper into complex subjects and desire to achieve excellence in journalism.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in journalism, English or similar field.

Additional Information

The salary range for the role is $60k -80k USD depending on experience.

We work hard to make sure Life at Informa is rewarding, supportive and enjoyable for everyone. Here’s some of what you can expect when you join us:

• Freedom & flexibility: colleagues rate us highly for the flexibility and trust they receive, and we support a range of working patterns
• Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
• Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too
• Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves
• Time out: Open PTO, plus 10 national holidays, a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
• Competitive benefits, including a 401k match, health, vision and dental insurance, parental leave and an ESPP offering company shares at a minimum 15% discount
• Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, free access to a wellness app and more
• Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programs
• As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world

We’re not solely focused on a checklist of skills. We champion energy and ambition and look for colleagues who will roll their sleeves up, join in and help make things happen. If it sounds like a match and you have most – although not all – of the skills and experience listed, we welcome your application.

At Informa, you'll find inclusive experiences and environments where all perspectives and backgrounds are welcomed. As part of this approach and our diversity and inclusion commitments, we are also formally an Equal Opportunities Employer. This means we base decisions on relevant qualifications and merit and do not discriminate on the basis of key characteristics and statuses, including all of those protected by law. Ask us or see our website for full information.

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