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Valnet

News Writer

Valnet

Freelance News Writer for Pocket-lint, covering consumer tech, gaming, and streaming updates. Responsible for pitching and reporting breaking news stories and producing timely, high-quality content.

Posted 5/27/2026contractRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Identify, pitch, and report on breaking news stories across consumer tech, gaming, streaming, and digital entertainment.
  • Extract the core of a story quickly to deliver highly accurate, informative, and timely reports in a fast-paced environment.
  • Pitch unique, reader-obsessed news angles and trending pop culture updates to our Editorial team regularly.
  • Input work into our in-house CMS, as well as find and format images, according to our guidelines.
  • Stay up to date on the latest tech hardware releases, streaming platform updates, and industry announcements.
  • Coordinate with the editorial team for rapid assignments, breaking coverage, and feedback.
  • Follow Pocket-lint’s general Editorial Guidelines while producing unique, high-quality, and voice-driven news content.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Relevant experience writing and editing breaking news or tech/entertainment content for a digital publication in the English language.
  • Deep passion for consumer tech, movies/TV, gaming, and the streaming ecosystem is mandatory.
  • Ability to track trending topics, monitor press releases, and cover breaking developments quickly under tight timeframes.
  • Ability to think analytically; providing insightful commentary and context to an event or product drop rather than just rewriting a press release.
  • Proficiency with SEO practices and experience using a custom CMS.
  • A self-starter attitude with an exceptional quick-response availability during peak news hours.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Competitive per-story compensation.
  • Flexible schedule.
  • Remote position to work from a location of your choice.
  • Exposure to Pocket-lint’s massive audience.
  • Long-term growth paths, including training workshops and potential for fixed base roles or advanced coverage opportunities.

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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
self-starterquick-responsecommunicationcollaborationcreativitytime managementadaptabilityinsightful commentaryattention to detailreader obsession