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Everyday Health Group (EHG) is a recognized leader in patient and provider education and services attracting an engaged audience of over 74 million health consumers and over 890,000 U.S. practicing physicians and clinicians. Our mission is to drive better clinical and health outcomes through decision-making informed by highly relevant information, data, and analytics. We empower healthcare providers, consumers and payers with trusted content and services delivered through Everyday Health Group’s world-class brands.

The Opportunity

MedPage Today has a stellar reputation as the go-to source for the latest clinical news, opinions, and investigative reporting in the healthcare space. Healthcare professionals across the U.S. know they can count on us for accurate, detailed reporting on the latest science from medical journals, medical meetings, as well as healthcare policy that will impact their practice. In addition to this, MedPage is becoming the home for voices across medicine with our growing Opinions section, and the work of our Enterprise & Investigative team shines a spotlight on other important issues for clinicians, helping them feel more engaged in their profession and providing a means to influence medicine’s trajectory.

MedPage Today seeks a staff writer to write daily clinical news articles for the infectious disease beat, though versatility across medical specialties is a plus. We’re looking for a writer with several years’ experience in medical news writing, who can actively promote their work and that of MedPage on social media, and follow article comments with interest. This person will either have a solid network of contacts in the infectious disease specialty, or will be adept at generating new contacts at academic medical centers to support their journalism.

The MedPage Today staff writer will travel to attend medical conferences in infectious disease in-person as required.

Key Responsibilities

• Be able to identify the most important news in infectious disease; ones that will resonate with our healthcare professional audience
• Travel 6-8 times a year to cover medical conferences as needed.
• Write 4-6 clinical news stories a week, with primary responsibility for the infectious disease beat, and take assignments from the Senior Staff writer to whom this person will report.
• Promote your work and that of MPT on social media, growing followers there and identifying leads for stories to cover yourself, or to pass to our Enterprise & Investigative team

Job Qualifications

• About 3-5 years' experience in health/medical journalism
• An understanding of key health policy issues
• Experience covering an ID beat, or at least experience covering a specialty beat for another medical news outlet
• A deep understanding of how to read clinical studies

Our Culture and Values

We created our values together to guide our collective purpose and pursuits. We are collaborators and problem solvers. We empower one another to make informed decisions and to be enabled towards action. We embrace success. We recognize that innovation can spark and be born from any of us no matter our individual role or background. We encourage open mindedness and sensitivity to each other and our environment. Our personal and professional passions get ignited, nurtured and supported. We value that doing is greater than talking as the most measurable means of impact. Our collective purpose to deliver enlightened audience experiences with trusted brands is what drives the success of our business and our professional satisfaction.

Life at Everyday Health

At Everyday Health Group, a division of Ziff Davis, we work in a culture of collaboration and welcome those who desire to join our growing global community. We believe in careers versus jobs and people versus employees. We seek enthusiastic individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit looking for an environment that rewards your best work.

Everyday Health offers competitive salaries in addition to robust health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, vision, life and disability benefits, Flexible Spending accounts, 401(k) with company match, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Pregnancy and Parental leave, Family Planning Support via Maven, Flexible Time Off, Volunteer Time Off, Fitness Reimbursement as well as employee-focused engagement and education programs, including Employee Resource Groups and company-sponsored events. If you’re seeking a dynamic, flexible work environment where you can see the direct impact of your performance, then Everyday Health is the place for you. Everyday Health Group has employees located in 42 states as well as offices in NYC, Asheville, Boston, London, England and Mumbai, India.

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