What are the responsibilities and job description for the Commerce Reporter position at New York Post?
Job Description
The New York Post delivers the best in news, sports, entertainment, pop culture and shopping, with wit, irreverence, and authority across print, digital, video, audio, app and commerce. Over the past 224 years, The Post has evolved into a multi-platform media company spanning print, digital, video, audio, app, television and commerce.
The Role
We’re hiring a Commerce Reporter for the revenue-generating commerce team. You will publish fast, useful shopping stories that help readers buy with confidence and help grow revenue across the New York Post Digital Network, including the New York Post and potentially Page Six and Decider as needed.
What You’ll Do
Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other protected characteristic. EEO/Disabled/Vets
Reasonable Accommodation
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application or participating in an interview due to a disability, email us at humanresources@newscorp.com. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.
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Base Pay Range: $65,000 - $75,000
We’re committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors.
For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions.
For benefits-eligible roles, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.
The New York Post delivers the best in news, sports, entertainment, pop culture and shopping, with wit, irreverence, and authority across print, digital, video, audio, app and commerce. Over the past 224 years, The Post has evolved into a multi-platform media company spanning print, digital, video, audio, app, television and commerce.
The Role
We’re hiring a Commerce Reporter for the revenue-generating commerce team. You will publish fast, useful shopping stories that help readers buy with confidence and help grow revenue across the New York Post Digital Network, including the New York Post and potentially Page Six and Decider as needed.
What You’ll Do
- Publish a minimum of 3-4 commerce stories per shift across deals, explainers, how-tos and buyer’s guides, plus detailed story updates as needed. Consistent daily output is a core expectation.
- Spot and pitch high-intent stories using trends, search data and real-time signals. Move quickly from ideation to execution.
- Report, write and refresh content that converts, with clean affiliate linking and
- Build sharp, scannable packages for tentpoles and live news moments.
- Monitor performance and iterate headlines, framing, and placement to lift CTR, CVR, RPM, CPC and revenue opportunities.
- Collaborate with commerce editors, audience, SEO and partnerships teams to plan and prioritize.
- Track competitor coverage and surface new areas to win.
- Support major shopping events like Prime Day and Cyber Week with extended coverage as needed.
- Be willing to represent the commerce team in digital, video or social when appropriate and needed.
- Daily output: 3-4 stories on average, with flexibility to scale during peak periods.
- Quality signals: accuracy, clarity, usefulness and fit for NY Post voice.
- Audience and revenue impact: CTR, conversion, revenue per session, search visibility and speed to publish.
- Ownership: thorough understanding of your beats – proactive pitching, smart updates and on-time delivery
- 3 years in features, news or commerce writing with strong clips.
- Obsession with the commerce landscape and reader value.
- Proven ability to write crisp, authoritative headlines in the iconic NY Post voice.
- Working knowledge of SEO, AEO and GEO, plus social media best practices.
- Comfort reading dashboards and using data to drive decisions.
- Collaborative by default. Detail-oriented and accountable.
- Organized, adaptable and fast. Able to pivot to trends and live news without losing accuracy.
- Hands-on familiarity with affiliate tools and networks.
Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other protected characteristic. EEO/Disabled/Vets
Reasonable Accommodation
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application or participating in an interview due to a disability, email us at humanresources@newscorp.com. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.
Please refer to the privacy notice at the bottom of this page for submitting any data access, deletion, or other data subject rights requests, where permitted under your local laws and regulations.
Base Pay Range: $65,000 - $75,000
We’re committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors.
For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions.
For benefits-eligible roles, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.
Salary : $65,000 - $75,000