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Ars is looking for a senior technology reporter, and you might be it!

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Why This Matters

This job opening at Ars Technica offers a unique opportunity for experienced tech writers to engage deeply with a wide range of hardware and software topics, shaping the way consumers and industry professionals understand emerging technologies. It emphasizes hands-on experience and a passion for tinkering, making it ideal for technologists who love exploring new gadgets and systems. The role also highlights the importance of expert journalism in guiding informed tech consumption and innovation.

Key Takeaways

If you’re a skilled writer with outsize technology chops who gets excited by the idea of taking the Ars audience with you as you go hands-on with hardware—all kinds of hardware!—then this position has your name all over it. Plus, you get to have me as your boss, and how could that be anything other than awesome?!

The job

The formal job description and application is right here and has all the specifics and HR stuff, including salary range. The short summary is that we’re looking for an experienced writer (where “experience” means “several years of professional work”), who is a technologist first and foremost. We want people who tinker around with tech because they can’t not tinker around with tech; that kind of joy tends to leak out into the work, and it’s impossible to fake.

Some specifics on the subject matter the job will cover, copied from the job description:

Desktop and mobile operating systems, including Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android

Desktops and laptops

Mobile phones and related devices

CPU & GPU architecture

Storage, including NAS, hard drives, and solid-state drives

Self-hosting and homelab-type services, including and especially solutions based around open source software

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