Pulse Writer

The Ken; Bengaluru; Presencial; INR 700.000 - 1.100.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

The Ken is hiring a Pulse Writer in Bengaluru to craft sharp, original takes daily, linking what’s trending with The Ken’s reporting. You will track founders, investors, operators, and policymakers, and write one concise take per working day.

With 2–4 years in journalism or a writing‑heavy role, you read business news, find The Ken angle, and write 200–800 words with a clear point of view. Credit sources, adapt for different formats, and uphold accuracy and fairness.

Formación

• 2 to 4 years in journalism, newsletters, research, analysis, or a writing-heavy role in business, policy, or tech.

Responsabilidades

• Read the room every morning and track what founders, investors, operators, and policymakers are arguing about across LinkedIn, X, earnings calls, filings and policy announcements.
• Shortlist three or four possible hooks and determine The Ken angle for each, citing existing reporting where relevant.
• Write the take once daily, in 200 or 800 words, with a clear point of view and without padding.
• Credit sources, link to original reporting, and adapt the take for multiple shapes (newsletter item, on-site section, social post).
• Help archive tagging and searchability over time by being precise and consistent in references.

Descripción del empleo

Job Summary

Pulse Writer

Editorial Bengaluru

You connect what everyone is talking about or interested in today with what The Ken already knows, and you write one sharp, original take every working day.

Bengaluru; full-time; 2 to 4 years of experience.

What you will do

• Read the room every morning. Track what founders, investors, operators, and policymakers are arguing about: LinkedIn, X, earnings calls, filings, policy announcements, the morning papers. Shortlist three or four possible hooks.
• Find The Ken angle. For each hook, ask where The Ken has reported something that changes, deepens, or contradicts the popular reading. Go and find it. Picking the one that becomes the day s take is the real editorial decision of your day.
• Write the take. One a day, on a simple structure: what people are saying, what The Ken reported, why it matters now. Have a point of view. Summarising an old story is not the job. Make the point in 200 or 800 words, whichever it needs. A longer weekly piece when a theme deserves it.
• Check before you reuse. Numbers, valuations, people and facts change. Update them against the present and check with the original reporter where it matters.
• Credit every time. Link to the original story, name the reporter, and write so that interested readers also want the original reporting.
• Write in more than one shape. The same take may run as a newsletter item, an on-site section, a corporate briefing and the base for a social post.
• Become the archive s memory. Over time, be the person who knows what we ve written about almost anything, and help improve how the archive is tagged and searched so the next person can too.

What we are looking for

• 2 to 4 years in journalism, newsletters, research, analysis, or a writing-heavy role in business, policy, or tech. We care more about what you ve written and what happened to it than where you worked.
• You read business news for fun and have opinions about it that you can defend with evidence.
• You write clearly and fast, and you can make one point in 200 words without padding or in 800 without drifting.
• You can take a hard edit. The distance between a first draft and a published piece here is large, and the people who thrive find that interesting rather than humiliating.
• You re comfortable being publicly wrong now and then, and you correct yourself in the open, gracefully.
• You care about credit, accuracy, and fairness more than about being first.
• You can persuade reporters to help you without the authority to compel them.
• You read numbers: you want to know which takes travelled and which sent people to the archive, and you change what you do because of it.
• Bonus: you ve built an audience of your own (a newsletter, LinkedIn, X) and understand why some posts travel and others don t.

What you get

A daily platform with The Ken s name behind it and 10 years of reporting under you. A byline that becomes the one people look for when something happens. Direct, daily editing from people who have set the standard for business journalism in India, which is the fastest way to get better that we know of. And an archive most writers would pay to have access to, which you ll know better than anyone.

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