Copy Editor

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📝 Copywriter

👻 Ghost score 10%

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Newsweek

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1933

📣 Marketing

📱 Media

Marketing • Media • Publishing

Newsweek is a global media organization that delivers news, analysis, and commentary across a wide range of topics including politics, technology, health, finance, and entertainment. It offers articles, insights, and updates on world events and issues, and provides a platform for opinion and debate. Newsweek is known for its publications both in print and online, serving a diverse audience with factual reporting and unique storytelling.

📋 Description

• Copy edit and proofread articles for grammar, spelling, punctuation, syntax, clarity, readability and overall editorial quality • Apply AP Style and Newsweek house style consistently • Fact-check and verify names, titles, dates, locations, figures, quotations, terminology, links and supporting information • Assign stories and editorial projects to freelance writers based on expertise, availability, editorial priorities and subject matter • Manage freelance assignments and deadlines from assignment through submission, editing and publication • Provide freelancers with editorial direction, including story angles, objectives, scope, audience, reporting requirements and deadlines • Communicate revisions, additional reporting needs and editorial feedback to freelance contributors • Manage stories in the Newsweek CMS, including editing, formatting, reviewing and preparing content for publication • Collaborate with editors, reporters, freelancers and other teams to resolve issues, improve workflows and move content efficiently from assignment to publication

🎯 Requirements

• Experience at a newspaper, magazine, digital publication, newsroom or comparable editorial organization • Strong knowledge of English grammar, spelling, syntax, sentence structure and usage • Ability to identify questionable facts, inconsistencies, unsupported claims, attribution problems and potentially misleading language • Strong knowledge of AP Style guidelines • Familiarity with publishing stories through a CMS • Ability to write or edit headlines, subheads, captions, summaries, standfirsts and other presentation elements • Honed organization and time management skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects at the same time • Experience publishing in WordPress (desirable) • Experience managing projects in ClickUp (desirable) • Familiarization with SharePoint (desirable)

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer • Inclusive, equitable and respectful workplace • Remote work arrangement