Do you want to become a vulture? Now's your chance to join The Register's news desk
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A successful applicant will be expected to write a mix of daily news articles and monthly in-depth pieces, alerting readers to crucial information they need to know and guiding them through technologies they ought to master. Their writing must be clear, accurate, fair, and submitted on time.
They should be able to talk to our audience of millions of IT professionals through the pros and cons of a cloud giant's new API offering, explain the impact of a security vulnerability or the underlying cause of a bug, and be able to interview engineers and CTOs to find out how products work – or don't work – as advertised.
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If you need help setting up a sudoer or purging an apt package, this is probably not the career path for you. An ability to read and understand modern application source code is highly favourable.
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This role will ideally cover:
Major Linux and BSD kernel and distribution releases
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud's use and deployment of FOSS
The development of FOSS, from Python scripting to Go and Rust toolchains.
Major releases of FOSS applications, from desktop suites to server toolkits
Orchestration and containerization of software
A successful applicant will report to our UK editor Paul Kunert, and must be able to demonstrate the ability to write clearly, accurately, and at a level suitable for our technically minded audience. The role is remote in UK/EMEA, though the option of office work may be available depending on how and when the COVID-19 pandemic pans out.
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.. or the pub!
Chainsmoking and heavy drinking
Come back Chris Hitchens! We have the perfect role for you!
The dirty secret of FOSS
Perhaps he or she should also write how FOSS developers are being exploited by big corporations.
Many contributors don't get compensated for their work and at the same time those corporations that use the software report billions in "profits" (in quotation marks, because profits get turned into costs, so they are not subject to tax).
Tempting
I like the idea of flexing my career from pure IT to IT journalism, but having given up drinking I'd never get an NUJ card.
Choose no life ...
Hmm, sounds a lot like most of my previous roles:
Work to deadlines.
Daily reports, in depth monthly reports.
Cover a variety of technologies and give an in-depth report after investigation.
I think I'll stay where I am and retire in a few more years and leave this for a younger generation and continue to wonder what sort of masochist becomes a journalist. It makes the credo of alt.sysadmin.recovery look like a step up to easy street.
Their writing must be clear, accurate, fair, and submitted on time
Not expecting many calls from Fleet Street, then...
I would want free dental and healthcare. must cover chainsmoking and heavy drinking.
Does el reg have a petty cash fund for working lunches? Im more than happy to work from home.