Media Analyst Jobs

Job Title: Media Analyst

Location: Remote - New York

Duration: 12 Months

Media Analyst to analyze press coverage and social media conversation in the US. The Analyst should have solid numeric and quantitative analysis skills.

The Analyst will be responsible for monitoring news cycles, providing qualitative analyses as well as quantitative data insights for the most pressing issues. Additionally, this role will sit at the heart of a global effort to quantify the impact of the work of its communications team for all reactive as well as proactive activity.

The ideal candidate will excel at working collaboratively with colleagues all over the world (our working language is English) and can consistently deliver high-quality work even under severe time constraints. Candidates should be strong communicators. Attention to detail, ability to remain flexible in a fast-paced environment, strong qualitative and quantitative analysis skills as well as organizational skills are critical.

This role is ideal for someone who has had firsthand experience in a journalism and/or communications career, in academic research, at a think tank, or after working for a media agency, media analysis firm, or media measurement platform. By analyzing the Client's media activity, you will gain a thorough understanding of how to define the impact of proactive and reactive media cycles at a very large scale around the world. This position will be the ideal basis for a further career in the communications team or in some of the world’s largest organizations in the public eye.

Read, analyze, and summarize media coverage of important Client issues

Inform the wider team on news cycles and policy issues domestically and internationally, and put them into their local context

Create reports with media insights (including visualization) to assess the impact of different news cycles and inform future strategy

Support the communications team in developing meaningful success metrics for its campaigns and initiatives across traditional (news) media outlets as well as owned, paid-for, and earned social media activity

Top 3 must-have HARD skills:

Experience owning multiple deliverables and working in a deadline-driven environment

Familiarity with the media market in the US

Experience drafting messaging materials; writing news summaries is a plus

Good to have skills:

Experience in handling data sets and visualizing data a plus

Experience in working with media monitoring tools