Senior Editor
Prometheus Global Media
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Full Time Job
Job Title: Senior Editor
Employment Type: Full Time
Reporting into: Executive Editor, Magazine
Location: New York City
Billboard is looking for a Senior Editor. The senior editor will conceive, assign and edit stories large and small on the full range of popular music and how it is created, distributed, consumed and debated today, mainly for the print magazine's features and front-of-book sections.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Plan, assign and edit content ranging from longform deep-dives to fast-turnaround news items in close collaboration with the magazine's executive editor, features editor and other editors and staff writers.
• Engage deeply with industry sources, online conversation and new music to quickly and constantly generate ideas for a range of timely, surprising and insightful stories in every issue.
• Own specific edit packages and franchises, overseeing advance planning and organizing relevant stakeholders to meet long term and daily deadlines.
• Work closely with the design and photo teams to plan the visual presentation of content including reported stories, photo portfolios, data-driven infographics, etc.
• Work with publicists and industry contacts to secure exclusive access to talent and executives.
Skills
needed for the Position:
• 3 years of experience editing business and/or entertainment coverage including reported stories.
• Impeccable editing chops: refining ideas, shaping narrative arcs, honing (or overhauling) prose and writing vivid display copy. Knack for visual packaging also key.
• Extensive contacts among reporters and writers from a range of backgrounds.
• Keen interest in business reporting and familiarity with basic structure of the music industry.
• Rigorously organized, obsessed with detail and faultless with deadlines.
• Print magazine experience, particularly writing or editing for a front-of-book section.
Qualifications
for the Position:
• Bachelor's Degree
• 5 years of experience in business or entertainment journalism, print magazines.
• Experience with InCopy a plus
Prometheus is an Equal Opportunity Employer