4.3 KiB
Market evidence report — columnist
Source: 41 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 41), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-10. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).
Seniority distribution
| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | 24 | 59 % |
| mid | 15 | 37 % |
| junior | 2 | 5 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slack | 16 | 39 % |
| 2 | WordPress | 16 | 39 % |
| 3 | 3 | 7 % | |
| 4 | TikTok | 3 | 7 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creative writing | 18 | 44 % |
| 2 | content generation | 16 | 39 % |
| 3 | time management | 14 | 34 % |
| 4 | writing | 12 | 29 % |
| 5 | source development | 9 | 22 % |
| 6 | journalism | 5 | 12 % |
| 7 | reporting | 5 | 12 % |
| 8 | storytelling | 5 | 12 % |
| 9 | editing | 4 | 10 % |
| 10 | interviewing | 4 | 10 % |
| 11 | data analysis | 3 | 7 % |
| 12 | enterprise journalism | 3 | 7 % |
| 13 | essay writing | 3 | 7 % |
| 14 | opinion journalism | 3 | 7 % |
| 15 | public policy analysis | 3 | 7 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accountability journalism | 3 | 7 % |
| 2 | digital storytelling | 3 | 7 % |
| 3 | multimedia storytelling | 3 | 7 % |
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draft submission | 19 | 46 % |
| 2 | communication with managers | 15 | 37 % |
| 3 | deadline adherence | 15 | 37 % |
| 4 | revision fulfillment | 15 | 37 % |
| 5 | training completion | 6 | 15 % |
| 6 | column writing | 5 | 12 % |
| 7 | audience engagement | 4 | 10 % |
| 8 | opinion column writing | 4 | 10 % |
| 9 | column production | 3 | 7 % |
| 10 | editor communication | 3 | 7 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 41 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
41 ads.
Top hard skills:
- creative writing — 44 % (18 ads)
- content generation — 39 % (16 ads)
- time management — 34 % (14 ads)
- writing — 29 % (12 ads)
- source development — 22 % (9 ads)
- journalism — 12 % (5 ads)
- reporting — 12 % (5 ads)
- storytelling — 12 % (5 ads)
- editing — 10 % (4 ads)
- interviewing — 10 % (4 ads)
Top tools:
- Slack — 39 % (16 ads)
- WordPress — 39 % (16 ads)
- Instagram — 7 % (3 ads)
- TikTok — 7 % (3 ads)
- ChatGPT — 5 % (2 ads)
- Daybook — 5 % (2 ads)
- Facebook — 5 % (2 ads)
- Gemini — 5 % (2 ads)
- Google Analytics — 5 % (2 ads)
- NotebookLM — 5 % (2 ads)
Seniority: n/a 59 % · mid 37 % · junior 5 %
UK (gb)
Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)
Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
Job title variants in the market
| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Opinion Columnist | 3 |
| Political Columnist | 3 |
| Myelofibrosis Community Columnist — Story | 2 |
| Climate Lab Reporter/Columnist | 1 |
| Democratic Political Commentator Intern | 1 |
| Digital Columnist | 1 |
| Dravet Syndrome News Columnist Job at BioNews Services in New York | 1 |
| Emerging Political Columnist Local Insights & Impact | 1 |
| Fox News Media is hiring: Writer, Politics in Washington | 1 |
| Freelance Columnist | 1 |
| Impactful Local & State Opinion Columnist | 1 |
| Michigan Politics Columnist - Conservative Voice & Insight | 1 |
| Myelofibrosis Community Columnist Share Your Story | 1 |
| Opinion Journalist | 1 |
| Opinions Columnist | 1 |
| Political Opinion Columnist | 1 |
| Porphyria News Columnist | 1 |
| Porphyria News Columnist 14 | 1 |
| Porphyria News Columnist 15 | 1 |
| Porphyria News Columnist 19 | 1 |
| Porphyria News Columnist 26 | 1 |
| Porphyria News Columnist 28 | 1 |
| Porphyria News Columnist 30 | 1 |
| Porphyria News Columnist 41 | 1 |
| Porphyria News Columnist 44 | 1 |
Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.