Senior Celebrity Writer and Talent Booker
Core
Secure exclusive celebrity interviews, premiere junkets, and red-carpet moments while writing major cover stories and long-form profiles for print and digital platforms.
Role type
Senior IC celebrity writer and talent booker
Builds
Exclusive celebrity interviews, cover stories, and long-form profiles for national entertainment mastheads
Domain
Entertainment journalism and media
Required skills
Negotiating exclusive talent access, conducting high-profile interviews, writing engaging celebrity profiles, managing complex scheduling logistics, pitching cultural tentpole ideas, maintaining an international contacts book of publicists and agents
Preferred skills
Understanding of digital subscription drivers, agility in collaborative team environments
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Negotiate and secure exclusive one-on-one sit-downs, international junket positions, and red-carpet moments; Conduct and write major celebrity profiles and cover interviews; Maintain a forward booking schedule (at least 8 weeks out); Partner across the network to pool access power for major international premieres and coordinate national talent visits; Pitch compelling ideas for major cultural tentpoles and deliver polished, subscription-driving stories