News Editor
Warner Music Group
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At Warner Music Group, we're a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives, and passionate team members. Here, we know that each talent makes our collective bolder and brighter. We are guided by four core principles that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:
• Music is Everything: Music is our passion, and we can never get enough. Tastes, trends, and tech will change, but great writers and editors will always be our driving force.
A little bit about our team:
HipHopDX is a digital media business that day in and day out talks about Hip Hop music culture. We create daily content for our fans through written articles, social posts, and short and long-form videos. In addition, we build and maintain high-traffic websites, throw events, and always try to create an incredible experience along the way.
The News Editor will report to The Head of Content, where you will be managing and working closely with part of our news team. Additionally, you will collaborate with the Social and Video department managers along with various writers and traffic strategists.
Your role:
It is the responsibility of the News Editor to make sure HipHopDX is consistently publishing exciting, relevant, and responsible Hip Hop music culture news. They will be doing this by finding, assigning, editing, and writing news stories for HipHopDX, a major online music publication. They will also manage, hire, and educate present and future freelance writers, editors, and content creators to improve and grow the quality of content on hiphopdx.com.
Here you'll get to:
• Manage a team of 2-3 full-time writers and several freelance writers
• Assign multiple stories per day, while personally publishing additional news stories
• Implement and adhere to editorial standards, including style guide, SEO optimization, and journalistic integrity
• Refine headlines and editorial imagery for maximum engagement
• Work with your team to develop industry contacts, online resources, and social feeds for news articles
• Contribute to staffing and budgeting discussions
About you:
As the ideal candidate, you must have 2-5 years of professional editorial and management experience. You must be a self-starter with a respect and love for Hip Hop culture. In addition, we expect you to have:
• Experience managing small teams in a fast-paced work environment
• Strong copy-editing skills and excellent writing samples
• Working knowledge of WordPress and Google Analytics
• A light understanding of HTML and photo editing software
• Expert knowledge of the current Hip Hop landscape and familiarity with historical hip hop artists
• Ability to maintain a flexible work schedule
• Motivated self-starter with strong editorial instincts
We'd love it if you also had:
• Degree in Journalism or English
• Experience creating social media and video content
• Strong collaborative skills and the ability to work in a team
• Familiarity with Adobe Photoshop, Spreadsheet software [Excel, Google Sheets, etc], and various project management tools
HipHopDX - For over 22 years, HipHopDX has been at the forefront of Hip Hop culture, reaching over 5.7 million readers and influencing over 5.5 million social followers per month. As one of the longest-standing Hip Hop digital publications, and reaching more people than ever, we keep our readers, influencers and the artists we talk about, educated, informed and entertained on everything happening in Hip Hop music culture. Our insightful, honest, unbiased editorials, reviews, premier news, and original video content, draws one of the most loyal followings online. As a part of Warner Music Group, HipHopDX is expanding internationally, increasing its video offering and building out the digital tools for the next generation of music media consumption. We continue to build upon the reputation we have garnered from decades of work
Don't be discouraged if you don't hear from us right away. We're taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.
Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.