News Editor, Men's Health
Rodale
New York, NYThis was removed by the employer on 9/28/2017 4:05:00 PM PST
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Men’s Health, the world's largest men’s magazine brand, seeks a creative, energetic, and organized top-tier News Editor to join the digital team. In this role, you’ll work to identify top viral and news stories and ideate ways to create content aimed at helping grow this healthy living website.
You will play a key role in developing, reporting and top editing fresh, irresistible, and on-brand copy, including multiple daily news articles, listicles, slideshows and daily newsroom videos. You should be a speedy editor with a proven, strong story sense, capable of producing articles and packages that both drive traffic and engage readers’ interests.
You should be analytics-minded, comfortable monitoring, reporting and exceeding traffic goals and identifying editorial and social growth opportunities for the web site. The candidate should be able to thrive in a fast-paced environment, juggle various tasks at once, communicate effectively, and work well with people up and down the masthead. A passion for the Men’s Health brand and great enthusiasm to help improve lives and engage readers is a must.
Responsibilities
include:
• Conceive, plan and execute ambitious daily news and viral-minded content
• Oversee a network of staff writers, freelancers and interns and shepherd inbound copy from each through the publishing process
• Taking a viral story and helping us move past straight aggregation by adding original reporting and the Men’s Health voice to the approach
• Work closely with Digital Director of MensHealth.com to execute the brand’s editorial vision
• Edit and project-manage copy, including newsletters, daily news, and packages as needed
• Create and execute big-idea packages, franchises and destination centers on the site, as needed
• Write scripts and assist with shooting daily newsroom videos
• Assist in monitoring, reaching, and exceeding online traffic goals
• Conceive and assign exciting, readable, high-quality articles
• Work closely with all departments including IT, design, production, SEO, and advertising
• Monitor and analyze metrics to advise on decisions about site content
The ideal candidate will possess:
• 4 years running a viral news operation at a digital-first editorial outlet
• An exemplary understanding of SEO, including how to optimize content to reach the top of Google Trends or Google News
• Impeccable reporting skills, and the ability to teach them to others
• Have reliable sources within the health and fitness communities
• Have a vast network of freelancers
• Have a preternatural ability for sniffing out the next big viral story
• Familiarity with Drupal or comparable CMS
• A vast understanding of the major social platforms, including how to use a channel’s proprietary algorithms to help our content rise to the top
• A solid understanding of Men’s Health’s audience and editorial mission
• The ability to shift gears quickly in a daily web publishing environment
• A proven ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
• A strong service-journalism sensibility
• Ability to work closely with other editors and autonomously