Vanity Fair holds a mirror to society by celebrating the best of global culture and investigating the forces that propel it. Pop culture can be profound and current affairs can be ridiculous. Our cast of characters is wide-ranging, wildly diverse, always exceptional, and quite often stylish. In every medium, Vanity Fair harnesses the tensions of modern life.
Job Description
Location:
London, GB
Condé Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, Glamour, AD, Vanity Fair and Wired, among many others. Our award-winning content reaches 84 million consumers in print, 367 million in digital and 379 million across social platforms, and generates more than 1 billion video views each month. We are headquartered in London and New York, and operate in 31 markets worldwide, including China, Dubai, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico & Latin America, Spain, Taiwan, the U.K. and the U.S., with local licence partners across the globe.
Condé Nast thrives on collaboration, and our teams come together in the office four days a week (Monday - Thursday).
We value diversity of background, views and cultures. We celebrate people for their personal qualities, skills and contributions, recognising the power our brands have to influence and shape culture.
Vanity Fair seeks a staff writer to join its global team in a London-based position, covering the areas of culture, fashion, politics, business, and tech—and the intersections of those things.
The ideal candidate has original ideas, a distinctive writing style, the ability to come up with stories and to report them out. This role is an integral part of the editorial team, with experience balancing short-term and fast-turnaround stories with longer-term projects. The writer will be working across sections, and a top candidate is versatile—with an understanding of how to write a story around all editorial facets of the brand.
Primary Responsibilities:
Pitch, report, and write stories on platforms, balancing news and analysis of the most important stories with original investigative reporting, features, or essays.
Collaborate with audio, video, events, and social media teams as needed to develop ways of telling stories on other platforms. Conceptualising how stories might live across all editorial facets of the brand, and brainstorming and pitching ideas for all platforms (digital, print, social, podcast, video, etc)
Generating story ideas for VanityFair.com
Additional responsibilities as assigned
Requirements:
Sound editorial judgment, with strong writing and research skills
Extremely organised, detail-oriented, and able to adhere to tight deadlines, sometimes turning around copy within one work day
Ability to communicate well with people across departments (Art, Photo, etc.), at all levels of the brand, and with freelancers/outside contributors
3-5 years experience in journalism, writing, or related fields; ideally including reporting and editing experience and some familiarity with headline best practices, SEO, and newsletter strategy
Primary Responsibilities
Mix commentary, newswriting, and original reporting to contribute to Vanity Fair’s daily digital output.
Pitch and write feature stories on all manner of culture-driven stories, including profiles of rising talent, trend pieces, interviews, and more.
Maintain a next-level cultural radar for what’s new and what’s next, with a passion for bringing it to readers.
Be a one-person publishing outfit, sourcing photos and videos and posting directly to the site using our content management system.
Use traffic data and social-media feedback to find new coverage areas, optimise performance, and maintain consistent growth
Desired Skills & Qualifications:
College degree and at least 2-3 years writing experience
Enthusiastic about style, entertainment, culture, and the Vanity Fair brand
Experience using content management systems and major social media platforms
Excellent communication and interpersonal…