The Atlantic

Journalist

• Cover Americans’ changing health habits
• Examine the country’s virtues and vices related to eating well, exercising, sleeping, smoking, drinking, and indulgence
• Go beyond service-style analysis or debunking to examine the changing definition of a healthy life in the United States
• Monitor emerging developments in health and wellness
• Assess claims from experts and self-anointed experts seeking influence
• Parse scientific research and report on shifting policies
• Access and develop relationships with influential figures and sources
• Generate and pitch story ideas
• Report on pressing news and produce landmark longer-term projects
• Contribute to major topics and news events

Staff Writer

Editor

• Oversee and expand Dispatches, the opening section of the print magazine
• Generate ideas for arguments, columns, and regular features
• Edit and top-edit articles for the front of the book
• Ensure the section has depth, integrity, variety, wit, and style
• Assign and edit stories for Dispatches
• Work closely with staff writers and freelancers and expand the contributor network
• Help ensure coverage is compelling, thoughtful, original, and ambitious
• Shepherd pieces through copyedit and fact-checking
• Work with teams across the newsroom to enhance story presentation and distribution

Senior Editor

• Report on the intersection of technology and consumer culture
• Cover e-commerce and retail, the influencer economy, marketing, travel, and related topics
• Investigate companies and platforms shaping online shopping
• Analyze trendy products and status symbols
• Explore the logistics of how products reach consumers
• Generate original story ideas for a general audience
• Move quickly on breaking stories and conduct in-depth reporting when appropriate
• Write clearly and stylishly on deadline
• Produce engaging magazine journalism across a wide-ranging beat

• Oversee staff writers on the Science and Health team
• Work closely with other newsroom editors
• Produce stories that lead the national conversation about the frontiers of science
• Steer coverage of life on Earth and beyond—its present, past, and future—and the forces that shape it
• Assign high-standard magazine stories for a wide audience
• Manage and develop reporters by helping them clarify stories, pursue ambitious instincts, and produce compelling writing
• Edit fast-breaking scoops
• Shape ideas-driven pieces
• Oversee deeply reported projects
• Cover topics including physics, biology, neuroscience, climate change, and geology

• Grow The Atlantic's reporting on Hollywood and the broader entertainment industry
• Shape coverage of the business and industry of Hollywood as part of the Culture team
• Deliver scoops and big-picture analysis for a general-interest audience
• Steer deeply reported stories explaining shifts across studios, platforms, Hollywood's workforce, and beyond
• Identify coalescing trends and anticipate where stories are heading
• Develop lively stories about Hollywood's power, absurdities, and entertainment
• Work night, early-morning, and weekend hours when needed
• Collaborate within a close-knit editorial team