Managing Editor (Freelance)
Required skills
- Freelance Journalist Management
- Editorial Calendar
- Content Quality
- Style Standards
- Fact Checking
- Editing News Copy
- Publication Style
Nice to have
- Content Strategy
- Content Ideation
- Pitch Generation
- Blog Posts
- Short Stories
Role summary
Contently is seeking a freelance Managing Editor to remotely supervise and coordinate a team of freelance journalists. This role involves managing the editorial calendar, ensuring content quality and adherence to style standards, and facilitating communication between clients and writers. The Managing Editor will also be responsible for assigning articles, editing copy for readability and accuracy, and potentially filing brief stories or blog posts. Experience in hiring and managing freelance journalists, assigning articles for publications, and editing news copy is required.
A Contently Managing Editor is responsible for supervising and coordinating a team of freelance journalists to manage the timely delivery of quality content for client projects. The Managing Editor provides updates to the Account Manager as a freelance editor assigned to projects w/ monthly, weekly, or daily assignments. The Managing Editor is responsible for maintaining strict quality and style standards; managing assignments and the editorial calendar; and coordinating communication between the Clients (Publishers) and writers.
Contently maintains strict quality standards and relies on the Managing Editor to control the quality of content, request revisions from freelance journalists and make staff changes when required. As such, the Managing Editors success is judged primarily on the quality of the content.
The position is freelance, performed remotely, typically range from 5 hours to 20 hours per week. Pay is competitive.
Contently Managing Editor tasks include
Bring big ideas to the table
Help the clients and journalists generate new pitches
Assign articles
Prepare, rewrite and edit copy to improve readability
Detect and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax
Verify facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources
Ensure compliance to the publication's style, editorial policy, and publishing requirements
File brief stories and blog posts when necessary
Contently Managing Editors should have experience hiring and managing freelance journalists; assigning news and feature articles for a monthly, weekly, or daily publication; fact checking and editing news copy; editing for publication style.
The position is freelance, performed remotely, and can range from 4 hours to 20 hours per week. Pay is competitive.
If interested, apply online at Contently.com/jobs.
About Contently
Contently ( a venture-backed startup in New York City, empowers brands and journalists to connect and tell stories. Our solution combines the largest network of vetted, ready-to-work journalists with a workflow platform designed to help brands more efficiently manage their content programs. Clients currently include some of the world's largest brands, agencies and media companies.
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