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Senior Writer

Billboard

New York, NY 09-17-2024
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
  • Senior (5-10 years) Experience
Job Description
Billboard is hiring a Senior Writer in Los Angeles who will lead breaking music news coverage on the West Coast, covering lawsuits, legal battles and other big breaking events in the music celebrity world. With a renowned authority among artists, fans and the industry, Billboard powers the ultimate global music destination and magazine, featuring unrivaled reporting on music news, issues and trends, and the industry's definitive charts.

This Senior Writer will interview top artists, develop close relationships with music's top executives, publicists, lawyers and legal minds, cover key lawsuits, hearings and trials, breaking news of the events that music fans care about most.

Responsibilities:
• Cover cases, hearings and trials involving music stars
• Break news on big events in music world and celebrity musicians
• Interview top artists for written pieces, video and social media
• Write multiple news stories daily
• Use online legal research tools to track, report and analyze developments in music cases, and explain why they matter
• Contribute to editorial projects from power lists to cover stories to special issues

Requirements:
• 5+ years' experience reporting on tight deadlines
• Familiar with and fascinated by the music business
• A great communicator and well-sourced reporter
• Comfortable on camera and interested in multimedia reporting
• A clear, fast writer who can break down complicated legal matters for a broad audience, both in writing and/or on video
• Passionate about breaking news
• Eager to interview music talent
• A resourceful researcher who can find and pull legal filings quickly and easily
• Legal background/education a plus but not required

Salary range: $90K-$105K

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-dyz18p-18-222-184-207-42 in your application.

Salary Details
Salary Range: $90,000 to $105,000 Per Year ($ USD)
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Billboard is the world's most influential music media brand reaching key executives and tastemakers in and around the music business through Billboard Magazine and millions of music fans through Billboard.com and Billboard Events. The Billboard brand is built on its exclusive charts and unrivaled reporting on the latest news, issues and trends across all genres of music. Billboard receives hundreds of millions of brand impressions daily through many strategic relationships with major companies across various industries. These relationships leverage Billboard's brand recognition, proprietary chart data and information resources to develop products, live events and print, television, radio, digital and mobile platforms. In addition to North America, Billboard operates businesses in Brazil, Greece, Japan, Korea and Russia