Staff Writer / Researcher (Part-Time, Contract)
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A project or contract Researcher position
Fully remote: working with a USA-based team at One Decision .
Salary range: $4,000 to $5,000 (monthly rate) - subject to experience
One Decision is a weekly geopolitics interview show anchored by Sir Richard Dearlove, former chief of MI6, with co-host John Raine, former UK diplomat and IISS fellow. Guests include senior intelligence officials, foreign correspondents, heads of government, and authors. The channel has grown to more than 420,000 subscribers over the past year, and we are launching a website and newsletter this fall to build out the written side of the show.
We are looking for a part-time Staff Writer / Researcher to work with our Managing Editor on articles drawn from the show, research support for episodes, and a weekly newsletter. Roughly 15 to 20 hours per week, remote from anywhere, but you must be reliably available Wednesdays and Fridays against NY working hours. Start date September 2026.
Bylines are mixed. Some pieces will run under your own name, some will be co-authored with the Managing Editor, and some will be written in the show's voice without a byline. We will tell you which is which before you start a piece, and you will finish the year with published clips of your own.
What you will do:
Write two to three articles per week, typically 800 to 1,200 words, on topics linked to podcast episodes Do the research and background work that supports those articles: fact checking, context, and sourcing Contribute to preparatory research for episodes, including summarizing relevant books and articles Identify articles, interviews, and reporting from other publications worth putting in front of our audience, and package the best of it for a weekly newsletter Assist with writing and editing promotional and website materials, including episode summaries
What we need:
Demonstrated writing ability with published clips. Journalism, research organizations, policy publications, or a newsletter of your own all count Real fluency in international affairs, security, and geopolitics. You should be able to read a transcript about Iranian proxy strategy or European defense procurement and know what matters in it without a briefing Judgment about what is interesting to a smart non-specialist, and the discipline to cut what is not Comfort writing in someone else's voice as well as your own Speed and reliability. This is a weekly show with fixed deadlines Comfort using AI tools as a drafting and research aid, alongside the judgment to know where they are unreliable and to verify everything that carries our name
Helpful but not required: experience in podcast or broadcast production, SEO and headline writing for publisher sites, newsletter writing, original reporting experience and sources of your own in the national security or foreign policy world.
To apply
To apply, email david@onedecision.com with a short note on why this show interests you, three writing samples, and a one-paragraph pitch for an article you would write from a recent One Decision episode. Use "Staff Writer / Researcher" as the subject line. Shortlisted candidates will be paid for a single trial article.
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