Inside Industrial Infrastructure (IIICorp) is seeking a self-motivated, disciplined reporter to fill an entry-level position at its New York City office. An interest in corporate finance, international trade and economics is essential.
Key Responsibilities:
• Find and summarize press releases, announcements from regulatory agencies and other news pertaining to US or Canadian industrial companies’ business activities in the emerging markets.
• Conduct interviews with representatives from public and private industrial companies eyeing international growth and their financiers.
• Attend and cover industry events including conferences, trade shows and exhibitions
Knowledge and Skills:
• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in economics, business, engineering, communications, journalism or otherwise relevant field.
• Strong reporting and writing skills
• Experience working in a fast-paced work environment
• Ability to handle multiple tasks on a daily basis with minimal oversight
• Proficiency in Spanish, German or French a plus
The role involves conducting in-depth interviews with North American institutional investors and drafting intelligence reports for publication on our database and daily email. You will also be required to update an internal contacts database.
The successful candidate will gain experience working in an entrepreneurial and dynamic environment within a larger company, with the benefits of potential growth combined with stability. You will learn about the investment management industry and gain insight into the decision-making of senior executives with responsibility for billions of dollars. You will gain valuable interviewing skills and learn how to process, organize and deliver data in the most effective way.
* Your primary responsibility will be researching the investment profiles and strategies of North American institutional investors. You will be required to conduct in-depth interviews with key personnel at plan sponsors and draft intelligence reports for publication on our database and daily email
* Inputting this information to a central internal contacts database and producing a set number of mandate opportunity stories for inclusion in the daily email
* The role will also involve producing broader editorial content for a monthly and quarterly analysis of industry trends.
As a media startup from the Netherlands, we’re looking to transform the world of high quality journalism. Blendle allows readers to buy individual articles from a range of premium publishers and publications for a few cents a pop.
Read more: https://blendle.homerun.hr/editor-in-chief-1
The ideal candidate should have a great understanding and passion for emerging culture and demonstrate a clever and thoughtful approach to this area.
Position will be focused on daily editorial (writing, photo selection, publishing) and knowledge of publishing tools and applications. Assisting with content packaging which includes writing original website copy and packaging partner copy, selecting photos and videos, and other rich media content that supports the voice, tone, and style of site.
In addition to crafting clever headlines, tease copy, keyword optimization, you will brainstorm original pieces to assign to reporters. This position focuses on pushing fresh, compelling and relevant content live in a fast paced, deadline driven environment utilizing our internal content management system
Yale Environment 360, an award-winning online magazine based at Yale University, is seeking a Web Editor to oversee the day-to-day operations of the website. The Web Editor’s responsibilities include finding and creating multimedia content; preparing articles and images for the content management system; copy editing; writing short articles and items; promoting the site via social media and elsewhere; working on a site redesign; and serving as general operations manager. A good sense of design and knowledge of HTML, CSS, Photoshop, and social media are essential, along with excellent writing skills and a strong interest in the environment. This is a full-time job based in New Haven, CT, with good benefits.
Assistant Managing Editor:
Odyssey is looking for a driven leader who will revolutionize the model of content creation and content discovery by building a community of influencers around the country that capture diverse, hyper-local perspectives. Candidates should have a passion for digital media and finding new ways to push the industry forward. Assistant Managing Editors will manage 20 communities of millennial thought leaders across the country. Candidates should have a strong strategy mindset as they will be integral to our continued growth.
Odyssey is dedicated to providing the opportunity for multiple voices to create a conversation around new perspectives and topics from intimate communities to worldwide audiences. Ideal candidates will be united in this vision and focused on the mission of leading Odyssey as the future of digital media.
Ideal candidates will:
Be familiar with various social channels to distribute content to a wide variety of audiences.
Have experience working in digital media or other relevant fields.
Have a deep interest in hyper-local content, nationwide.
Be comfortable experimenting with different platforms and media.
Be enthusiastic about taking lead on special projects.
Thrive in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment.
Have strong communication, organizational skills.
Work efficiently within a team and meet deadlines under pressure.
Set ambitious goals for themselves in terms of traffic, community growth, and personal growth.
Manage the recruitment and expansion of teams.
Build highly efficient, traffic-driving communities that produce content relevant to their local audience and beyond.
Contribute to our newsroom culture.
The mission at Thrillist’s core over the past 10 years has been to help people enjoy their cities, and the infinite options they hold, the best we possibly can. Often, this involves grilled cheese, which is good. We’re looking for a CITIES EDITOR who can manage and guide freelancers in multiple cities across the US and world, and work with them to constantly produce engaging, exciting, stomach-warming stories locals love. There will be plenty of food and drink, of course, but also a focus on activities, dating, discovery, and commentary around what really matters in a city.
Responsibilities:
- Daily production of the best damn local service, commentary, and news stories the Internet has ever seen
- Help recruit, then manage a stable of incredibly skilled freelancers in a handful of markets
- Draw the best possible ideas out of those freelancers -- the ones who truly understand what makes their city tick, and what’s happening in it
- Work closely with freelancers in an open-dialogue back-and-forth editing environment to help them grow as writers
- Create something DIFFERENT. Lots of people write lots of things in lots of cities; we want you to figure out a million fantastic, groundbreaking ways to approach them and set Thrillist apart from the field.
- Write some of that stuff yourself, too! You’re also smart and have stuff to say. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. We swear your mom did not write this.
- Work efficiently in our CMS and know all its ins and outs, as well as our freelancer workflow system
- Encourage freelancers to pitch and give them the feedback they need to learn and understand our editorial plan so that you can effectively draw the best possible ideas out of the people who truly understand what makes their city tick and what's happening in it.
- Push writers to promote stories in creative fashion using social media and whatever the hell will swallow our lives after social media
- Outline and execute a vision for reaching new, diverse audiences, using Google Analytics and Chartbeat to inform strategy
Qualifications:
- A Bachelor's Degree and 3+ years of digital writing/editing experience
- Must have experience multi-tasking and tracking many projects simultaneously
- A palpitating desire to work with writers to make them better (including the one who wrote “palpitating desire”)
- A proven ability to get viral traffic
- Must have a strong, creative eye for images that work with a story and will sell it on social
- Must be comfortable leveraging data to develop audience loyalty
- Must have strong interpersonal skills, and must be comfortable receiving constructive criticism
- Strong social media presence -- apparently people are starting to like Instagram and Twitter and stuff
News Deeply, an award-winning journalism startup that has been called “The Future of News” by Time Magazine, is seeking a Digital Community Manager based in its New York or San Francisco office. This person will be highly involved in our digital social media management, and will help us experiment with new platforms and audience development initiatives. The community manager will provide feedback to multiple departments and will help us advance as a cutting-edge journalism company by applying the latest in audience engagement and community management practices.
Candidates can come from a wide array of backgrounds – but experience in journalism, social media, copywriting, public relations, community outreach, user research and/or data analysis will be considered as a plus.
RESPONSIBILITIES
· Find the audiences for newly created News Deeply sites.
· Reach out to new audiences wherever they are located.
· Work with the editorial and product teams to figure out new ways of engaging News Deeply readers.
· Update News Deeply social platforms with a mix of our own reporting and partner content.
· Understand and apply the latest content marketing and social media promotion best practices.
· Exercise creativity, problem-solving and grit. We might need you to pick up the slack or step up to unexpected responsibilities – we’re a startup!
· Some travel will be involved, and you must be able to work effectively as a remote team member. We have team members in New York, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Beirut, India and Armenia.
REQUIREMENTS
· Excellent English language skills and familiarity with Western media
· Extensive experience with Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms
· Familiarity with expert/specialist social networks that serve niche communities (examples: Reddit, Quora, Tumblr)
· A high degree of comfort using third-party social media toolkits (examples: Buffer, Hootsuite, TweetDeck)
· Curiosity and active engagement with digital media platforms, projects and experiments
· Friendly, inquisitive and observant
· BA or equivalent experience in journalism, publishing, media studies, English or related field.
Ideasmyth is seeking an awesome volunteer who has a passion for the written word for our Editorial Manager position. This person will work closely with Ideasmyth’s Creatrix-in-Chief to manage and oversee all aspects of written communication for Ideasmyth’s social media and web presence, particularly as it relates to our Ideablog’s popular Featured Creative series. While this position is currently unpaid, the Editorial Manager will have opportunities to develop relationships with new talent and network with industry leads. They will also have the option of being trained in top-level editing of client manuscripts. Plus, you will be working for a growing and dynamic company.
Job Perks:
Educational credit
Weekly office lunch
Casual public speaking training
Editing training
Networking opportunities
Job Potential Payoffs (as appropriate to performance):
Own column/writing credits
Job references and referrals
Paid commission from company store or advertising sales
Paid editorial work
Responsibilities:
Editing our blog content and uploading it to WordPress
Scouting, recruiting and corresponding with guest bloggers
Curating and developing new content for Ideasmyth’s Ideablog and social media
Researching information on current events and industry trends and incorporating it into Ideasmyth’s practices
Overseeing a small team of social media and editorial interns
Providing editorial feedback to interns
Maintaining back end administrative and junior intern documents related to blogging and social media activity
Attending weekly Ideasmyth meetings and office hours in West Midtown Manhattan
Preferred Qualifications:
MFA (or in progress) in English, Journalism, Creative Writing (or minimum English BA)
Personal blogging experience--Wordpress familiarity a bonus!
Cultural journalism, book journalism and book reviewing experience
Familiarity with (or passion for developing) major social media platforms (we are active on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn)
Basic coding knowledge (HTML/CSS) a plus
Personal interest in contemporary authors, bloggers and other creatives
Comfortable learning new technology and software
Requirements:
Ability to commit to 20 hours per week for 6 months (ideally the majority of that time in the office)
Self-motivated, upbeat, eager-to-create attitude
Meticulous organization & time management skills
Ability to manage and track multiple projects at once
Game to learn!
An entrepreneurial spirit!