The Community Manager for Digital Communications develops and executes an online and social media strategy that amplifies CR's mission in the marketplace, identifies opportunities to engage with influentials and protects CR's reputation as an independent, nonprofit organization. Serving on the Communications team and as a core member of CR's distributed social media teams, this individual works to build CR's brand to advance marketplace change in part by creating strategies that enable CR experts and executives to develop their social media profiles. In addition, this role is responsible for CR's presence across third-party sites, including Wikipedia, LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Google Knowledge Graph, etc.
The Community Manager of Digital Communications must be adept at working in a highly matrixed organization as well as focusing on both immediate and long-term strategic needs. H/she will regularly seize on, or respond to, real-time opportunities to maximize impact and analyze quantitative and qualitative metrics to advance efforts.
This position is part of our new Digital Lab team – a group of tenacious journalists, privacy experts, product testers, technologists and policy analysts dedicated to shining a light on the data privacy and security issues that consumers increasingly face, as well as examining the broader topics of fair market competition, transparency, and consumer choice in today's marketplace. By scaling our capabilities and expertise for the digital era, Consumer Reports is expanding efforts to protect, educate, and empower consumers in our connected world while holding companies to higher standards.

Responsibilities

• In collaboration with communications and cross-functional leaders, concepts and executes a social media strategy that builds online presence for CR as brand in addition to specific individuals.
• Ensures alignment with overarching communication strategies via social media to advance CR's story as an independent, nonprofit organization, dedicated to bending the marketplace in favor of consumers.
• Identifies opportunities for experts and executives to engage online on consumer issues, working with stakeholders from content, marketing, social impact and member support.
• Shares and responds to opportunities in real-time and creates feedback loop.
• Builds, monitors and manages CR's online reputation across key social channels (Twitter, Facebook and YouTube), third-party sites such as Wikipedia, Google Knowledge Graph and Glassdoor, and major blogs in partnership with the extended social team across CR.
• Creates and fosters communities to increase engagement, social following/ambassadors and brand affinity, providing regular updates on key metrics.
• Collaborates with outside agency partner(s).
• Performs other related duties as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism or related field is required.
• A minimum of five to seven years of hands-on experience with advanced knowledge and understanding of social media platforms and third-party sites, including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Google Knowledge Graph, Glassdoor and others.
• Must have demonstrated success in community management and driving online engagement; Wikipedia experience a plus.
• Comfortable providing strategic communications counsel to cross functional partners and engaging with senior management.
• Team player who collaborates well with others across highly matrixed organization.
• Exceptionally strong interpersonal, social media, verbal communication, and project management skills.

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• Cover breaking news and write short form, SEO optimized, news pieces (300-500 words, on average)
• Link pieces, when applicable, to relevant content from PYMNTS’ back catalogue
• Manage deliverables to a timely, consistent schedule, under tight deadlines

This is a great contract opportunity for a recent grad (Master's in journalism preferred) looking for a steady, flexible opportunity. This is a remote, early-evening position (east coast time), Mon-Thurs and Sunday.

Payments or financial services experience is a huge plus, but a top-notch generalist background – specifically, with the ability to dive deeply into new subject matter and grasp it thoroughly and quickly, is foundational.

Consumer Reports—the nation's premier independent product testing organization—seeks a highly skilled editor and manager of people to help oversee CR's team of auto journalists, specifically focusing on editing and managing CR's extensive auto review and auto-related product coverage. The ideal candidate is a self-professed car geek with broad experience in mainstream media and significant editing and management skills. He or she labors over article organization, is a strategist who can develop new digital-first forms of storytelling, and is at ease discussing automotive technology with our expert testing staff as well as representatives from the auto industry.
The successful candidate has a collaborative spirit and a demonstrated knack for working across department lines on multi-platform content. This is a unique chance to help lead one of CR's most important franchises that reaches millions of readers every day.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with CR's Deputy Director of Content Development to help reshape and refine our car review process and content offerings around our extensive testing of vehicles.
• Partner with the Deputy Director to set overall editorial strategy for cars coverage; help manage and direct budget.
• Assign and edit car reviews and other product-focused content related to our autos testing program.
• Directly manage and steer a team of writers/reporters focused on delivering smart reviews and other stories about our test results.
• Help develop new digital-first storytelling formats and tools around our autos coverage.
• Instill a culture of excellence with every story, small or large that's produced.
• With the help of other managers and reporters, successfully pitch full-fledged multi-platform packages for our print and digital publishing operations.

• Must have a college degree, plus minimum 5-7 years' experience writing and editing consumer-facing cars content, with an emphasis on product reviews.
• Experience with digital content required, multi-platform experience that includes print and video highly preferred.
• Must have demonstrated success in a fast-paced multi-platform content environment; be both fast and have with high editorial standards.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills a must.
• Candidate should also be able to package content for print and digital platforms. Experience partnering with UI/UX, data visualization, digital product management,
business development / strategic content partnerships, is beneficial.
• Will also work closely with Cross-Platform Managing Editor to help manage aggressive deadlines across both print and digital products so must have strong understanding of journalistic strategy and principles in both disciplines.

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The Princeton Alumni Weekly is searching for an experienced journalist and strategic thinker with superior digital and social-media skills to become the magazine's digital editor. This editor also has responsibility for assigning and editing PAW's print and online sports coverage.
The person in this position will have a major role in the development of a strategic plan for PAW's digital engagement and has day-to-day responsibility for PAW's online presence and social-media initiatives. Consulting with the managing editor, the digital editor takes the lead role in ensuring that PAW has quality content at PAW Online, in promoting reader engagement through social media, and in measuring the results. Along with the editor and managing editor, the digital editor works toward the goal of increasing PAW's online alumni audience.
The digital editor reports to the editor and also takes direction from the managing editor.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all content posted to the magazine's website, paw.princeton.edu, including stories and images from the print magazine and web-exclusive features.
• Strategize with the editor and managing editor on ways to strengthen digital engagement.
• Assign and guide PAW staff and freelance writers, photographers, and interns in the creation of web-exclusive stories, slide shows, and audio/video features.
• Create, edit, and publish email newsletters (approximately 60 per year).
• Plan, assign, and edit coverage of Princeton sports for the print magazine and the website.
• Manage social-media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn).
• Record and edit interviews for PAWcast, the magazine's monthly Q&A podcast.
• Write promotional text for the print magazine to highlight online features.
• Manage digital advertisements using Google Ad Manager.
• Track website and social-media statistics and provide regular reports to the staff and the PAW board.
• Work with an outside design group to make periodic improvements and updates to the website.
• As time permits, report and write stories for the print magazine and the website.

Essential Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree.
• At least five years experience in journalism, including significant digital experience.
• A significant portion of experience must be in editing.
• Experience creating podcasts and multimedia content.
• Experience managing social-media accounts.
• Demonstrated ability in the following areas: AP style; spelling, grammar, punctuation; news writing; time management.
• Content-management /website skills required for oversight of PAW Online.
• Interest in collegiate sports.
• Personal traits: Curiosity, tact, and diplomacy. Able to work successfully with a wide range of people. Professional demeanor.
Strongly preferred:
• Experience in sports-writing and/or editing
• Experience with Drupal, WordPress, SEO.
• Experience with Photoshop, Premiere, Audition, and other Adobe applications
• Demonstrated knowledge of Princeton University and its alumni, history, traditions, activities, and athletics.
• Interest in and knowledge of issues in higher education.
• Established relationships with campus news sources.
• Experience working with college students.
Princeton University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. EEO IS THE LA

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TheGrio is looking for an innovative, talented, part-time digital editor who has experience with digital media editing and producing original and aggregated content and a deep and demonstrated passion for African American culture. Candidates should have a whip-smart news judgement as you will be responsible for leading the weekend team on either Saturday or Sunday (rotating schedule) and dictating what stories are produced each day.

This position requires the editor to work from their own home office on weekends, but interact and collaborate with various Grio staffers during the weekend.

The position offers a competitive rate paid per story.

Responsibilities:

· Lead a weekend writer covering five news stories over three hours on either Saturday and/or Sunday.

· Saturday hours are from noon to 3:00PM ET and Sunday hours are from 3:00PM to 6:00PM ET/

· Edit and produce five news, culture, celebrity, and/or entertainment related news posts each weekend day in WordPress, quickly, cleanly and accurately.

· Find news and culture stories important to the African American community featuring Black newsmakers on other sites and social media for aggregated write ups assigned to the writer. Then edit those stories with captivating headlines.

· Knowledge of SEO best practices applied to each post

· Choose interesting and creative photos for each post using various photo subscriptions

· Candidates are expected to have extensive knowledge of Black culture, Black celebrities and news pertaining to the Black community

Requirements:

· At the minimum, two years of experience as an editor on a digital website is required, covering news of various kinds, writing, editing and/or producing multiple posts a day

· Experience and proficiency writing in WordPress

· Strong understanding of social media

· Relentless enthusiasm, reliable, trustworthy, and collaborative spirit

· Must be able to work in a deadline driven environment

· Copy Editing skills are a plus

· Experience doing SEO on posts is a plus

· Bachelor’s degree ideally in Journalism, mass communications or a similar field

Coverager is looking to hire a news writer that will play an integral role in shaping the Coverager content from the daily newsletter to custom research reports. In the day-to-day you will curate news, write stories and research different topics on insurance and beyond.

Position Summary:
1) Provide breaking news and analysis about the business of chemistry that is of interest to readers of C&EN.
2) Identify potential features about chemistry-relevant business topics, including stories about technology breakthroughs, consumer market trends, regulation-driven changes, intellectual property developments, and start-up company formation and funding.
3) Conduct interviews and gather information that leads to accurate and balanced stories for all platforms, including website, newsletters, mobile app, podcasts, video, and print magazine.
4) Construct sophisticated and complex multiplatform story packages that conform to C&EN style and meet deadlines. Work with C&EN’s Media Production Lab team to create graphics, infographics, and other digital story forms that engage and inform audiences.
5) Work with C&EN’s Audience team to find the widest possible audience for your journalism.
6) Develop contacts in chemical and related business and research communities through attendance at industry events, email and phone interaction, and social media audience building.

Latino USA, a nationally broadcast hour-long radio program on NPR hosted by Maria Hinojosa, is seeking a Producer for a full-time, permanent position to join our expanding and vibrant team of audio journalists.

Latino USA’s interviews and pieces cover subjects concerning Latinos nationwide with heavy focuses on immigration, criminal justice, technology, human rights, labor, sexual and reproductive health, Latino identity, arts, and cultural coverage. For more information on the show, visit the main site here. The offices of Futuro Media Group, which produces Latino USA, are located in Harlem, New York City.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Producer will:

Have a strong background in immigration reporting
Produce long-form, character-driven features and investigations for national radio
Generate ideas for coverage of the aforementioned topic areas (plus more) and bring well-developed pitches to the weekly editorial meeting
Work with reporters and partners to gather tape and interviews for the show
Travel as needed while working closely with host on special projects
Report on topics as assigned and produce first-person radio features as needed
Write, book, line produce, and edit host-led 2-ways
Brief the host prior to regular appearances on other broadcast outlets if needed
Write web content and social media as assigned
Help with general production tasks as needed

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in journalism, communications, Latino studies, or a related field; or equivalent work experience.
Two to five years of experience producing long-form or documentary radio or podcast reports.
Experience writing and editing broadcast scripts for radio or television.
Spanish language skills a plus, but not required.
A knack for developing relationships and sources.
Significant experience with ProTools or similar digital audio editing platforms.
Experience working with talent.
Commitment to diverse coverage within and outside of the Latino community, in terms of sexual orientation, gender, and race.
Ability to think thematically and integrate stories into the larger narrative of each week’s program.
Experience pitching story ideas and subsequently developing them.
Attention to detail, great organizational skills, and capacity to complete projects in their entirety and on deadline.
Teamwork ethic, great communication skills, and rock-solid reliability.

160 Fifth Avenue
Full time
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Spectrum's award-winning news team is looking for a high-energy reporter to join our lively newsroom in New York City.

Spectrumis the go-to destination for autism news. The site also features long-form 'deep dives' on topics ranging from unproven therapies to autism in Africa. These articles have won top journalism awards.Spectrumstories are syndicated byThe Atlantic, Scientific American, SlateandThe Washington Post,among other popular outlets.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious science journalist to develop a beat in the fast-moving field of autism.

You would write news stories, profiles and features that educate, challenge and inspire our audience of scientists. Genetics, cognition and behavior, research ethics and molecular neuroscience quicken your heart. You will cultivate sources, embed yourself in the research community and be the first to know about trends and provocative advances.Spectrumis funded by the Simons Foundation but is editorially independent.

Bring at least three years of journalism experience - preferably including experience in digital journalism - along with a solid biology background and impeccable news judgment. We offer a generous salary and truly excellent benefits.

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Seeking AP/Co-Producer for nationally broadcast PBS documentary

Our Emmy-nominated production company is seeking an Associate Producer for a high-profile documentary series that will contain both historical elements and contemporary stories. The ideal candidate will have a passion for research and archival materials as well as solid field skills. Creative problem solving, resourcefulness, and an ability to think on your feet are a must.

This is a great opportunity to be part of a small team shaping the series from concept to delivery with hands-on impact through every part of the process.

Start Dec 1 (with some flexibility)
Duration 12-14 months.