WRITER, MIT News Office, Writer serves as key contributor to MIT’s dynamic daily news site, generating high-quality, authoritative coverage of the Institute with a focus on electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). This beat includes cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, cryptography, robotics, quantum computing, and more. Responsibilities include: report and write about MIT research, innovation, and teaching through a mix of spot news and coverage of peer-reviewed research, as well as profiles, trend stories, and/or other features; cover several beats within MIT, including other departments in addition to EECS as needed; exercise sharp news judgment and generate at least two story ideas per week that map to institutional priorities; interview students, faculty, and staff for news articles; cover speeches and events, occasionally at night or on weekends; write at least two news stories a week for MIT News web site; collaborate with media relations team to adapt news stories for distribution to news media; propose and help coordinate visual/multimedia elements to accompany articles; and liaise with subjects of articles and other stakeholders to make sure they approve of content prior to publication.