Consumer Electronics Writer

Type: Full-time
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Company: The Kim Komando Show
Contact Name: Editorial Director
Address: 2711 N. 24th St. (near 24th St. and Thomas)
City: Phoenix
State: AZ
Zip: 85008
Phone: No phone calls, please
Fax: No faxes
E-mail:

Description

The Kim Komando Show has numerous editorial products: books, four newsletters and newspaper columns. The person who fills this position will participate in researching, writing and editing these products.

We also have a large Web site, which requires constant tending. The person who fills this position will occasionally help our Webmaster in maintaining the site. Knowledge of HTML would be helpful, along with graphics and Web experience. However, we can train, if necessary.

Salary is $33,000 at entry level, or commensurate with experience.

We write only about computers, the Internet and consumer digital equipment. If you are not interested in this area, you will burn out quickly.

Requirements

Qualified candidates will have earned a bachelor's degree. A journalism degree or newspaper reporting experience will be very helpful. Other writing experience will be considered for outstanding candidates. This opening will not lead to an on-air position.

To be considered, you must complete an exercise. Much of our work consists of answering listeners' questions. Please answer the question below and . Include your education and work experience.

Q. Time Warner is planning to charge Internet customers for the bandwidth they use. I'm sure I don't use a lot of bandwidth. But I leave my PC on almost all the time. And I leave my e-mail on full- time. Am I using lots of bandwidth? Should I turn off my e-mail?

A. Before answering, subscribe to our Tip of the Day newsletter to see how we handle questions. To subscribe, go to http://www.komando.com/newsletters/ Answers should be thorough and reflect the fact that the questioner probably knows little about the issue at hand. Keep sentences and paragraphs short, in good journalism style.

The Kim Komando Show is a talk radio show, broadcast live for three hours every Saturday. It is in the top 20 of national talk shows, according to Arbitron. The show, like all of Ms. Komando’s products, centers on computers and the Internet.

Equal Opportunity Employer
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