Newsroom Team

The Digital Weekly is a small newsroom by design. We believe in fewer reporters with deeper beats rather than many with shallow ones. Every byline on this site belongs to a real person you can email, look up on LinkedIn, and verify on Twitter. We do not publish under pen names except in exceptional circumstances involving documented safety risk to the writer.

This page introduces our editorial leadership and core staff. Contributors and freelancers who write occasionally for us are not listed here; their bios appear on their author pages, accessible by clicking any byline.

Editorial leadership

How our newsroom is organised

The Digital Weekly is structured around three editorial functions: reporting, editing, and fact-checking. Most stories pass through all three before publication, and the people performing each function are different from one another.

Reporters originate stories. They identify what’s worth covering, conduct the interviews, review the documents, and write the first draft. Beats are organised by topic and by region — a reporter covering AI infrastructure is different from a reporter covering markets policy, even though both might write about the same chipmaker on a given week.

Editors shape stories. The assigning editor agrees the scope and angle with the reporter, then guides the reporter through reporting and drafting. After the first full draft, the editing process focuses on structure, clarity, and the central question: “Is the conclusion supported by the reporting?” A senior editor reviews everything before publication.

Fact-checkers verify stories. For routine news, this is the section editor doing a second pass against source documents and interview transcripts. For features and investigations, a dedicated fact-checker independently verifies every factual claim. Quotes are read back to sources for accuracy (when appropriate and not in adversarial reporting situations). Numbers are checked against primary documents.

Our contributors

Beyond our staff, we work with a vetted network of contributing writers — academics, practitioners, columnists, and freelance reporters with specific subject expertise. Contributors are evaluated for:

• Demonstrable expertise in their area of contribution (academic credentials, professional experience, prior published work)
• Disclosed conflicts of interest reviewed before each assignment
• Track record of accuracy and editorial reliability
• Commitment to our editorial standards — every contributor signs an agreement binding them to the same guidelines as staff

To pitch a contribution, see Write for Us.

Diversity and global perspective

Our newsroom is global by design. Staff and contributors come from North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. This is not a marketing statement — it’s an editorial necessity. Coverage of global markets, technology, and culture written exclusively from Manhattan or San Francisco misses too much.

We aim for diversity of background, geography, profession, and lived experience among our contributors. We track this informally; we don’t impose quotas, but we do correct course when we notice imbalance in the contributor mix.

How we hire

We hire reporters, editors, and contributors selectively. Our hiring process is straightforward:

1. Application — Send a resume, three published clips (or, for early-career applicants, three writing samples), and a one-paragraph note about which beat you’d most want to cover and why. Open roles are listed at /careers; we also accept speculative applications.
2. Initial conversation — A 30-minute video call with the editor whose section you’d be joining. We talk about your background, your reading habits, and what you think we’re getting right or wrong as a publication.
3. Editing test — For reporting roles, you’ll be assigned a short reported piece (paid at our standard freelance rate, regardless of hiring outcome) so we can see how you work.
4. Final interviews — Conversations with two other members of the editorial team.
5. References — We talk to two professional references and any sources you’ve reported on (with your permission).

We do not require formal journalism degrees. We do require demonstrated ability to report a story end-to-end, write it clearly, and respond gracefully to editing.

Internships

We offer paid editorial internships twice a year (Spring and Autumn cohorts). Interns are assigned to a section editor, given a real beat, and expected to publish reported stories — not just transcribe interviews or write SEO listicles. Internships are 12 weeks, paid above the median journalism-internship rate, and open to applicants worldwide.

Applications for upcoming cohorts open at /careers.

How we’re paid

Staff salaries are competitive with the upper end of the digital-media market. Contributor rates start at $0.50 per word for analysis and op-eds and rise to $1.50+ per word for reported features and investigations. We pay on publication, by direct deposit (US) or international wire (rest of world).

Reporters covering markets do not trade individual securities they report on. Reporters and editors disclose financial holdings that could create the appearance of conflict.

Contact our newsroom

For story tips, corrections, pitches, or general editorial correspondence:

• Editorial inquiries: editors@thedigitalweekly.com
• Corrections: corrections@thedigitalweekly.com
• Pitches: pitches@thedigitalweekly.com
• Hiring: hiring@thedigitalweekly.com

For secure or sensitive tips, see the secure-tips section on our contact page.