Do you like playing beer-league softball as much as watching the big game with friends? Do you spend weekends hiking, competing in obstacle course races and updating your fantasy sports team? Blood, Sweat & Cheers is looking for you to be our writer/editor.
Role and Responsibilities:
• Write well-reported, properly copyedited and hilarious copy on deadline
• Manage two editorial calendars, keep your ear to the ground and generate two unique, under-the-radar story ideas daily
• Efficiently brainstorm click-worthy email subjects, witty magazine-style headlines and SEO-friendly headlines
• Integrate SEO best practices into editorial copy
• Live and breathe "play lifestyle culture," have an eye for style and trends in sports gear and fashion
• Have a stable of freelance writers that you can occasionally turn to for assignments
• Have working knowledge of HTML and Photoshop
• Have experience coordinating public relations initiatives
• Have a basic knowledge of advertorial best-practices
• Be a highly-organized, self-motivated worker who thrives in a fast-paced environment, stays cool under pressure and enjoys problem solving
• Take pride and ownership in everything you do and be a team player who helps out coworkers in a jam

Culture and Compensation:
BSC Media, LLC offers a creative, fun, fast-paced and intellectually stimulating work environment at our office in Tribeca. Compensation is competitive and includes company equity.

The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) seeks a full-time
co-editor to produce our bimonthly magazine on Latin American politics and U.S.
relations with the region, NACLA Report on the Americas (nacla.org). The
ideal candidate will have a strong background in magazine
journalism as well as Latin American studies. Working together with a
co-editor in our New York office, the candidate will perform the following
tasks:

* Planning, in consultation with an Editorial Committee, a year¹s worth of
thematically focused issues

* Assigning and editing all sections of the magazine

* Collaborating with the other co-editor on copyediting, fact-checking, and
proofreading all sections of the magazine

* Photo and illustration editing, caption writing

* Maintaining an editorial internship program (at least one intern per
semester)

* Collecting author contracts and performing post-publication duties,
including uploading each issue to our website, handling contributor payments
and thank-you letters, and maintaining general author communications

* Planning events in the New York area to promote the magazine, such as
author lectures or media appearances

Salary: $35,000. Full health and dental coverage. Start date: September 2011
(if not sooner). Minimum one-year commitment.

Required qualifications:

* Copyediting experience, preferably with The Chicago Manual of Style

* Solid research skills and familiarity with fact-checking

* Excellent written English

* Knowledge of Latin American politics and history, as well as U.S. policy
toward the region

* Familiarity with Macintosh computers and the editing tools in Microsoft
Word

* Compatibility with the goals and perspective of NACLA

Preferred qualifications:

* Fluency in Spanish

* Academic training in Latin American studies

* Familiarity with Adobe InDesign

* Knowledge of HTML and online content-management systems

• Produce detailed content process that
scales with our growth
• Manage content for OutdoorRoadmap.com
• Create, write, format and edit web site
content
• Identify content for repurposing on ORM
• Overall management of content direction
• Interface with content providers
• Research additional content and sources to
feature on site
• Content will focus on hunters, archers and
shooters as well as relevant content to the
outdoorsman
• Edit and synopsize existing articles on the
sports we cover, including: legislation,
sport regulations, licensing information,
education
• Edit for substance, structure, grammar, and
style, with a strong focus on the reader's
perspective
• Communicate coherently and
collaboratively with experts regarding edits
to the material
• Exercise quality control over content (e.g.,
effectiveness of the discussion - its
organization, structure, clarity, accuracy of
data, elimination of typographical errors)
and integrity of content (e.g., confirm links
work, HTML renders properly, review
metadata accuracy to ensure documents
are published in proper context)
• Write short articles, summaries of articles,
and news briefs in topic areas. Support
internal teams by drafting, reviewing and
approving publication summaries for
internal notification and/or external
distribution
• Work with production staff to prepare
content for publication to web and email
products
• Make decisions in fast-paced development
environment to address opportunities
url outdoorroadmap.com
• Define and track success metrics using
analytics to demonstrate engagement and
traffic and refine editorial strategy
• Manage external and internal resources
• Help define and build our internal Editorial
team
• Build and execute content roadmaps
including recommending the infrastructure
necessary to support our goals
• Identify business improvement
opportunities, define vision and strategy,
and all elements related to each business
customer
• Work with other departments and clients to
track and communicate content
development, and to develop new content
launch plans
• Initiate and prioritize projects within
marketing and engineering and assist in
determining the best implementation
methods as well as a reasonable execution
schedule

The Christian Post is seeking full-time reporters who are able to thrive in a digital news room, and turn out breaking news, feature stories, and investigative reports.

The journalist should maintain a Bible-based, Christ-centered perspective while working with editors and reporters.

Beauty High, a StyleCaster Media Group site is looking for an entry-level beauty writer. This person will help to create content on a daily basis, as well as manage interns and contributors.
The person that fills this position should have previous internship experience in a related field, as well as the ability to quickly upload content, knowledge of beauty trends and products and be extremely personable. The pay is $2000 per month.

This position is available immediately. We are seeking young reporters who are fearless. They will be reporting 'hard news', not features. They must GO where the story is.
This will be for a new radio station under Emmis Communications in New York City. Please contact Liz Aiello. LAiello@merlinmediallc.com

Newsday.com is looking for an assistant news manager to oversee the news programming of its site at night and lead its breaking news coverage in the competitive New York metro-area market.

This is a position that requires newsroom experience, strong news judgment and organizational skills.

Nightly responsibilities include:
- Programming the homepage and all subsections of newsday.com, including the sports section as necessary;
- Working on deadline to create photo galleries and assemble online packages to accompany articles;
- Attending evening news meetings;
- Developing relationships with the print staff to ensure a fluid workflow from print to web;
- Assigning and supervising the work of interns.

Our ideal candidate is:
- Committed to a high standard of journalism with a keen attention to detail;
- Fast, accurate and flexible;
- Adept at juggling a variety of tasks and is calm under pressure in breaking news situations;
- Able to demonstrate strong communication skills with colleagues online and in print;
- Knowledgeable about the role social media and mobile applications play in expanding a website’s reach, and comfortable with technology;
- Interested in researching and developing new ways newsday.com can better serve its readership and improve user interaction on the site;

Experience and qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and at least one year of newsroom Web publishing experience;
- Basic HTML and photo editing skills and experience working with video;
- Reliable transportation to and from Newsday’s suburban Melville office.

Looking for bright business, financial, and political journalists to join a growing company. Opportunities are in
US Politics
US Society
World Politics
World Society
Markets
Economy
Business / Companies
Technology / Science

Law360, published by Portfolio Media, Inc. is an online daily newswire that covers breaking legal news for a sophisticated audience of lawyers at firms, corporations and government agencies.

We are currently recruiting for talented Editors to join our NYC team!

On a typical day Editors will approve 20 to 25 articles. These articles will cover a wide array of legal practice areas, including employment law, environmental law, intellectual property law and securities law, in industries such as energy, financial services, health-care, media and technology.

Additional responsibilities include; first reads, headlines and ledes, line editing, copyediting, fact checking, and proofreading; publishing newsletters; finding pictures for top stories; maintaining copy quality; and meeting deadlines.

Required experiences include; Bachelor's degree in English, Professional Writing, Journalism, Communications or related field, two years of full-time copyediting experience, newspaper experience, attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines, exceptional skills in grammar, spelling, punctuation, syntax and vocabulary and knowledge of AP style.

Openings for the late shift are available (3:00p – 11:00p).

Law360 offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, paid time off, 401(k) and other perks.

Qualified candidates will be asked to complete writing and reporting tests electronically.

AR Magazine has an opening on its news desk. The award-winning magazine and website covers the hedge fund industry and routinely breaks major news on the leading firms and managers—news that is often referenced by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and other leading publications. The position, based in Union Square, Manhattan, requires the ability to develop sources, a passion for breaking news and an investigative drive. Reporting experience and knowledge of hedge funds and finance is desired. Please send resume and clips to jfriedlander@absolutereturn.net