Careers

The Digital Weekly is an independent digital news publication founded in 2019. We cover the markets, businesses, technologies, and cultural shifts that define how the next decade gets built — not how the last one was reported.

We’re a small, distributed team of editors, writers, and engineers who believe the next great media brand will be reader-supported, AI-augmented, and globally relevant from day one. If you want to help build that, we’d like to hear from you.

What we look for

Whether you’re applying for a role or pitching a contribution, we look for the same qualities:

• Original thinking. You have takes, you can defend them, and you change your mind when the evidence changes. We don’t want aggregators or rewrite-the-press-release journalists.
• Specificity over generality. Names, numbers, examples — not broad claims. “Apple’s services revenue hit $23.9B in Q2” beats “Apple’s services business is growing” every time.
• Independence. You can ship work without being managed. We don’t have time for hand-holding, but we’ll give you context and air cover when you need it.
• Reader empathy. You write to inform a real person, not impress your peers. The Digital Weekly reader is sophisticated but time-poor. Respect their time.
• Range. You can write a 200-word smart brief OR a 3,000-word investigation. Different stories deserve different lengths.
• Speed. News moves fast. We move faster. If a story breaks at 11pm, we want it published before competitors do at 9am.
• Receipts. Every claim links to a source. We’re not in the “trust me bro” business.

Current openings

We’re a small team and we hire selectively. Roles open as our coverage expands.

Markets & Business Reporter

Cover markets, fintech, crypto, and the public-private intersection. Strong preference for candidates who can read a 10-K, understand a balance sheet, and have a working spreadsheet vocabulary.

• Status: Open for applications
• Format: Full-time, remote
• Compensation: Competitive base + revenue share on cornerstone articles + equity track
• Required: 2+ years writing about markets, business, or finance. Ability to break news, not just analyze it. Demonstrated track record of original reporting (not just opinion pieces).
• Bonus: CFA, MBA, or buy-side / sell-side experience. We’re not snobs about credentials but financial fluency matters.

Technology Writer

Cover AI infrastructure, developer tools, semiconductors, and the engineering of the technology stack. Engineering background preferred — we’d rather have a former engineer who writes well than a tech reporter who can’t tell a database from a deployment.

• Status: Open for applications
• Format: Full-time or part-time, remote
• Compensation: Competitive base + per-article rate + equity for full-time roles
• Required: Working knowledge of modern software stacks. Comfortable interviewing CTOs and infrastructure engineers. Can explain Kubernetes to a CFO and explain a financial model to a CTO.

Senior Editor

Oversee a section (Markets, Technology, or Entertainment). Manage 3-5 writers, plan coverage, hold the bar on accuracy and voice. Make editorial calls when the AP doesn’t have a style answer.

• Status: Open for applications (Markets and Technology sections currently)
• Format: Full-time, remote
• Compensation: Competitive base + equity track + revenue share on section-level performance
• Required: 5+ years editing or commissioning at a serious publication. Track record managing both staff and freelancers. Comfort making the final accuracy call on a contested story.

Full-Stack Engineer

Help us ship the next generation of newsroom tooling. Our current stack: WordPress (Bedrock + Sage 11), PHP 8.3, Tailwind v4, Vite, modest Node.js services. We’re building proprietary AI tooling on top of Anthropic and OpenAI APIs.

• Status: Open for applications
• Format: Full-time, remote
• Compensation: Competitive base + equity (this is a meaningful equity grant for a senior eng)
• Required: Strong PHP + JavaScript. Shipped production WordPress at scale OR equivalent CMS experience. Comfortable with infra: nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL, Cloudflare.
• Bonus: ML/LLM tooling experience. Embedding pipelines, semantic search, RAG.

Freelance Contributors

Always open. We pay competitive per-article rates and offer revenue share for cornerstone pieces that drive traffic. If you can write a piece that becomes the canonical reference on a topic for the next 2-3 years, we want to commission it.

• Status: Always open
• Format: Per-article contracts
• Apply via: Write for Us — separate pitch process for freelancers

How to apply

1. Email a short pitch (under 300 words) to careers@thedigitalweekly.com
2. Include links to 3-5 published pieces (your best work, not your most recent). If you’re an engineer or designer applying for a non-writing role, send portfolio links instead.
3. Tell us what coverage you’d own that we’re currently missing. We hire for what you can build, not what you’ve already done.
4. Skip the resume. We don’t read them. Your published work is your resume. If you’re an engineer, we want to see code (GitHub link is fine).

Subject line: [Role Name] — Your Name. Example: Markets Reporter — Jane Doe

What you’ll get

• Compensation: Competitive base salary, benchmarked against AP/WSJ/Bloomberg ranges adjusted for our size. Per-article rates for freelancers range from $250 to $2,500 depending on length and complexity.
• Revenue share: On cornerstone pieces (~5% of what you publish), you earn a share of traffic-driven revenue for 24 months. Top-performing writers earn 30-50% more than base.
• Equity: Full-time senior roles include equity grants on a standard 4-year vest with 1-year cliff.
• Editorial independence: Decisions are made by editors, not advertisers. We don’t run sponsored stories disguised as editorial. Ever.
• Distribution leverage: Built-in audience growing through our R51 AI Brief feature, referral newsletter (in development), and organic search. Your work doesn’t disappear into the void.
• Tooling: Modern stack. We invest in newsroom tooling so you spend more time reporting and less time fighting our CMS.
• Remote-first: Distributed team, async-by-default. Three half-hour standups per week, max. No 8-hour Zoom calendars.
• Continuing education: $1,500/year for books, courses, conferences. We approve everything that’s plausibly related to your work.
• Sources budget: $1,000/year for paywall subscriptions, niche newsletters, paid databases. We don’t expect you to read everything for free.

What we don’t do

• We don’t pay per click or per view. That metric rewards click-bait and we don’t run a click-bait operation.
• We don’t have unpaid internships. If we want your work, we’ll pay you for it.
• We don’t accept “pay-to-write” sponsored content disguised as editorial. Real journalism doesn’t have a price list for placement.
• We don’t run sponsored op-eds without clear disclosure. Sponsored content is labeled as such, in 14-point type, at the top.
• We don’t ghostwrite for executives, vendors, or anyone else. Every byline on the site reflects who actually wrote the piece.
• We don’t ask candidates to do paid trial weeks. If we want you, we hire you.

About the team

We’re a small distributed group across the US, EU, and South Asia. Our editorial board includes journalists who’ve published at The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Verge, and independent newsrooms. Our engineering team has shipped at Stripe, Shopify, and a few names you’d recognize. Our advisory bench includes operators from Substack, The Information, and Axios.

We don’t have a formal office. We meet in person twice a year for editorial offsites — one in New York, one rotating (recent: Lisbon, Tokyo, Bangalore).

Equal opportunity

The Digital Weekly is an equal opportunity employer. We hire and pay based on contribution, not credentials, demographics, or pedigree. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups in journalism and technology.

If you need an accommodation during the application process, email accessibility@thedigitalweekly.com and we’ll make it happen.

Response times

We respond to every application within 10 business days — even when it’s a “not right now.” If you haven’t heard from us in 10 business days, email careers@thedigitalweekly.com with the subject line “Following up” and your original application details. We probably missed it; we don’t ghost.

Apply today

Email: careers@thedigitalweekly.com
Subject line: [Role Name] — Your Name

For freelance contributors, please use our Write for Us pitch process — it’s optimized for one-off article commissions rather than full-time hires.

Questions about a role? Email careers@thedigitalweekly.com with the subject “Question:” and we’ll get back to you within 5 business days.