Investigative Journalist (Disguised as a Publicist)

USA (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableIntern/New GradPart time

Posted 7 days ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end client storytelling by conducting in-depth onboarding interviews and turning interview notes into persuasive PR pitches for journalists.

Lead hour-long onboarding conversations with clients to extract compelling personal and professional details.
Translate interview insights into concise PR pitches aimed at engaging journalists to cover clients' stories.

Job Description

Responsibilities

conduct onboarding interviews with our clients that last at least 1-hour, during which you will need to diligently (though politely) tease out the most compelling aspects of clients' professional and personal lives.
Afterwards, you will need to synthesize your interview notes into a concise PR pitches engineered to persuade overwhelmed and underpaid journalists to dedicate many hours of their lives to writing or broadcasting our clients' stories.

Requirements

A background in investigative journalism
Experience conducting interviews where you've pushed subjects to reveal sensitive details about their life and/or jobs
The ability to transcribe your interviews in real-time
Writing experience, ideally long-form articles over 3,000 words
A desire to tell other peoples' stories
A passion for uncovering hidden truths