{"id":920954,"date":"2026-07-19T05:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/ars-is-looking-for-a-senior-technology-reporter-and-you-might-be-it\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T05:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:12:17","slug":"ars-is-looking-for-a-senior-technology-reporter-and-you-might-be-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/ars-is-looking-for-a-senior-technology-reporter-and-you-might-be-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Ars is looking for a senior technology reporter, and you might be it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>If you\u2019re 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\u2014all kinds of hardware!\u2014then 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?!<\/p>\n<h2>The job<\/h2>\n<p>The formal job description and application is <a href=\"https:\/\/condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com\/CondeCareers\/job\/1-World-Trade-Center-New-York-NY\/Senior-Technology-Reporter--Ars-Technica_R-24331-2\">right here<\/a>\u00a0and has all the specifics and HR stuff, including salary range. The short summary is that we\u2019re looking for an experienced writer (where \u201cexperience\u201d means \u201cseveral years of professional work\u201d), who is a technologist first and foremost. We want people who tinker around with tech because they can\u2019t <em>not<\/em> tinker around with tech; that kind of joy tends to leak out into the work, and it\u2019s impossible to fake.<\/p>\n<p>Some specifics on the subject matter the job will cover, copied from the job description:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Desktop and mobile operating systems, including Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android<\/li>\n<li>Desktops and laptops<\/li>\n<li>Mobile phones and related devices<\/li>\n<li>CPU &#038; GPU architecture<\/li>\n<li>Storage, including NAS, hard drives, and solid-state drives<\/li>\n<li>Self-hosting and homelab-type services, including and especially solutions based around open source software<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a full-time job with benefits. Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States and should expect to travel perhaps 4\u20135 times per year. As this is a work-from-home position, you should be comfy in that environment (though we try to all get together and see each other at least once a year at a big in-person all-hands meeting).<\/p>\n<p>If that all sounds good to you, hit the link and <a href=\"https:\/\/condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com\/CondeCareers\/job\/1-World-Trade-Center-New-York-NY\/Senior-Technology-Reporter--Ars-Technica_R-24331-2\">apply right here<\/a>. We hope to have this position filled by August!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/staff\/2026\/07\/ars-is-looking-for-a-senior-technology-reporter-and-you-might-be-it\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Lee Hutchinson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re 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\u2014all kinds of hardware!\u2014then this position has your name all over it. Plus, you get to have me as your boss, and how could that be anything other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":920955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[859,3569,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-looking","category-senior","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}