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Temporary Staff Writer, The Dodo

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📍 Location: United States

💸 Salary: 70000.0 - 74000.0 USD per year

🔍 Industry: Media

🏢 Company: Vox Media, LLC

🗣️ Languages: English

🪄 Skills: SEOResearchWriting

Requirements:
  • Have superb writing and grammar skills, and imbue your work with style and humor
  • Have a unique ability to spot images and stories with viral potential and turn it into a strong pitch for The Dodo’s audience
  • Able to channel The Dodo brand into a fun, relatable, self-aware and identifiable written voice
  • An analytical thinker who will ground your work in performance metrics and best practices
  • Always thinking about how to optimize article packaging for traffic growth
Responsibilities:
  • Write entertaining, heartwarming, highly shareable stories for animal lovers that reinforce The Dodo as the ultimate destination for people who love pets.
  • Find and pitch the best animal stories from around the world.
  • Own all aspects of article production — including pitching, interviewing sources, researching, writing and packaging for various social platforms.
  • Ensure your pieces drive significant site traffic through social distribution and SEO, via constant performance optimization and adhering to best practices.
  • Support the social team with daily photo story sourcing.
  • Have superb writing and grammar skills, and imbue your work with style and humor
  • Have a unique ability to spot images and stories with viral potential and turn it into a strong pitch for The Dodo’s audience
  • Able to channel The Dodo brand into a fun, relatable, self-aware and identifiable written voice
  • An analytical thinker who will ground your work in performance metrics and best practices
  • Always thinking about how to optimize article packaging for traffic growth
  • Takes full accountability for deliverables and performance
  • Embraces new challenges and smartly experiments with new formats while remaining true to the brand and best practices
  • Understands business needs and individual role in meeting company goals
  • Proactively takes on projects and initiatives that contribute to the success of the team
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