US News and Crime Writer

This is a Full Time Job

You love breaking news and thrive in a fast-paced environment. You have breaking news reporting experience and understand the issues and stories that resonate with the Fox News audience. You're building a rolodex of networks across America from police to politics to pop culture. You are skilled at delivering several stories accurately on a daily basis, mainly covering breaking news along with news of the day/trending news. You will have the opportunity to do original and exclusive reporting.

You will be offered the following shift:

8:00 AM ET - 4:00 PM ET, Monday-Friday

This is NOT an on-air role.

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
• Cover breaking news events, writing quickly and precisely to help solidify Fox News as the go-to site for breaking news
• Pitch and cover stories that resonate with FoxNews.com's audience, aggregating with complete and proper attribution
• Pursue original and exclusive stories through close contact with sources
• Conduct and edit original, on-camera video interviews
• Present all original, breaking, and aggregated stories in an accessible, consistent, and compelling style
• Collaborate closely with editors and fellow writers/reporters

WHAT YOU WILL NEED
• A Bachelor's Degree in journalism or a related field of study preferred, or equivalent experience
• Newsroom experience
• Ability to work holidays, extra days, and longer hours and possess an ''on-call'' mentality
• Ability to work in emergency and/or breaking news conditions
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally when breaking news warrants
• Ability to deliver accurate copy under pressure in a deadline-driven environment
• Firm grasp of current news and events
• Strong understanding of the FoxNews.com audience
• Firm grasp of SEO story production and content development
• Knowledge of AP style
• Experience with PhotoShop and knowledge of video (iPhone) editing skills preferred
• Ability to leverage AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, NotebookLM)) to accelerate research, fact-gathering, and story framing in a fast-moving news cycle.

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