Health Reporter

Newsweek; United Kingdom; Remote; USD 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Newsweek seeks a freelance Health Reporter to join its UK team, focusing on a U.S. audience. This role requires expertise in health topics, ability to simplify complex medical concepts, and experience in reporting, ensuring accurate and engaging content. Candidates may work remotely from anywhere in the UK.

Qualifications

• Experience in a reporting role for a reputable organization.
• Strong understanding of digital journalism.
• Ability to write engaging stories.

Responsibilities

• Research, source, pitch, and write stories each day.
• Ensure high-quality reporting that is accurate and fair.

Skills

Organization

SEO

Online journalism

Job description

Newsweek is the global media organization that has earned audience time and trust for more than 90 years. Newsweek reaches 100 million people each month with thought-provoking news, opinion, images, graphics, and video delivered across a dozen print and digital platforms. Headquartered in New York City, Newsweek also publishes international editions in EMEA and Asia.

Newsweek is seeking a freelance Health Reporter to join our UK team on a casual worker agreement.

The ideal candidate will have detailed knowledge of consumer-facing general health and medical topics, medical advancements and treatments, wellness trends, and the broader healthcare industry landscape in the United States. The ability to condense complex health and medical concepts into accessible and engaging content will be highly valuable.

With a focus on an American audience, examples of topics to be covered include:

• Women and Men’s Health (menopause, preventative screening, lifestyle, family health).
• Heart Health (cardiovascular disease, blood pressure, cholesterol)
• Respiratory Health (asthma, COPD)
• Oncology (breast cancer, NSCLC, prostate cancer)
• Autoimmune Conditions (rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis)
• Alzheimer’s Disease (research, treatments, market trends)

The Health Reporter will be able to research, source, pitch, and write stories each day.

The successful candidate will have experience in a reporting role at a reputable organization. They will have a strong understanding of digital journalism. They will have a skillful approach to writing engaging stories. They will be adept at identifying health stories and topics of interest to a U.S. audience.

The candidate will be responsible for ensuring high-quality coverage that is accurate, fair, and conforms to accepted standards of journalism.

You will be offered work on various days as per the needs of the bu siness which you may accept on a mutually agreeable basis.

You may work from home anywhere in the UK .

Key Responsibilities:

• Research, source, pitch, and write stories each day.
• Ensure Newsweek delivers high-quality reporting that is accurate, fair, and conforms to accepted standards of journalism.

Qualifications:

• Experience in a reporting role for a reputable organization.
• Organization and planning skills.
• SEO and online journalism skills.

Newsweek is an equal opportunity employer. We seek employees of diverse backgrounds and are committed to providing an inclusive, equitable and respectful workplace.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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