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About the Role
TheTravel is seeking freelance Air Travel News Writers to cover news impacting travelers. This role involves confirming details with airlines and agencies, interviewing affected travelers, and explaining the implications of stories for passengers. Journalists with aviation or airline backgrounds, or airline operations professionals who write, are particularly encouraged to apply.
Responsibilities
- Turn breaking air travel news around quickly and accurately, then follow up as stories develop
- Confirm facts with primary sources
- Interview industry contacts and experts to add original reporting to every story
- Track article performance and use the results to sharpen future work
- Follow TheTravel's Editorial Guidelines and work with the Lead Editor to implement feedback quickly
- Meet tight deadlines and submit consistently
Requirements
- 3+ years of news reporting, ideally covering travel, airlines or aviation, or professional experience in the airline or aviation industry (e.g., operations, dispatch, airport operations)
- Strong knowledge of how airlines, airports and air travel rules work
- Proven reporting skills: sourcing, interviewing and verifying facts
- Ability to work quickly under deadline without sacrificing accuracy
- Bachelor's degree in journalism or a related field, or equivalent experience
- SEO knowledge and experience with a CMS are a plus
- Adherence to Editorial Standards, including a prohibition on using Artificial Intelligence
Skills
- News reporting
- Travel reporting
- Airline reporting
- Aviation reporting
- Airline operations
- Airport operations
- Sourcing
- Interviewing
- Fact verification
- Working quickly under deadline
- Accuracy
- SEO knowledge
- CMS experience
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Freelance
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in journalism or a related field, or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive compensation for strong, consistent performers
Benefits
- Flexible schedule
- Fully remote work
- Byline in front of 8 million monthly visitors
- Clear performance visibility
- Room to grow as a go-to air travel reporter
About the Company
- TheTravel is a fast-growing online travel publication.
- TheTravel is part of the Valnet Publishing Group.
- Valnet, founded in 2012, is a global digital publishing and media investment Company that owns and operates over 25 authoritative brands across diverse verticals, including entertainment, sports, technology, automotive, gaming, lifestyle and travel.
- Valnet is committed to producing premium content.