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Active Interest Media

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201 - 500 employees

📱 Media

🤝 B2B

🛍️ eCommerce

Media • B2B • eCommerce

Active Interest Media is one of the world’s largest enthusiast media companies, producing a variety of consumer and trade media including magazines, websites, TV shows, and events that reach millions globally in 85 countries. Their diverse portfolio includes publications such as Anglers Journal, Popular Woodworking, and Writer’s Digest, and they also operate B2B platforms and retail events through their Home Group and Marine Group divisions. Active Interest Media aims to deliver trustworthy information and services that inspire and engage their customers in their passions.

📋 Description

• Serve as a key copyeditor for Fine Gardening, Garden Gate, and Horticulture print publications, ensuring every issue meets the highest standards of accuracy, clarity, grammar, and style. • Review and package print content for production for selected brands, coordinating closely with editors and designers to ensure a smooth, on-time handoff to press. • Manage and/or attend production meetings and content production platforms as needed, providing regular deadline reminders and clear, organized status summaries that keep the entire team aligned and on schedule. • Act as a quality-control checkpoint throughout the print production cycle, catching inconsistencies before they reach the page. • Copyedit all Fine Gardening, Garden Gate, and Horticulture newsletters, ensuring polished, on-brand content reaches subscribers' inboxes error-free. • Copyedit new and previously published website articles, including regular features such as GPOD, print issue uploads, and additional web-only content, maintaining editorial consistency across a high volume of content. • Review video content (YouTube and reels) for errors and consistency of formatting, safeguarding brand quality across every content format. • Support SEO optimization for online content, helping extend the reach and discoverability of Garden Group articles. • Attend and contribute to various digital editorial meetings, offering an editorial perspective on content planning and strategy. • Take on the bulk of WordPress builds, including large, complex issue builds for Fine Gardening, ensuring digital content is published accurately and on time. • Construct newsletters for various brands as needed, from content selection through final send. • Maintain continuous content refresh for Fine Gardening, Garden Gate, and Horticulture, keeping the Garden Group's evergreen library accurate, current, and optimized for search. • Support special projects, such as Advon/similar affiliate content, that require additional editorial attention, serving as a flexible, reliable resource wherever the brands need it most. • Partner with editors, art and production teams, and digital producers across all three brands to ensure seamless handoffs between print and digital workflows. • Build strong working relationships across the editorial organization, serving as a go-to resource for questions of style, accuracy, and brand consistency. • Contribute editorial insight and quality-assurance expertise to ongoing improvements in production processes and content workflows.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong copyediting and proofreading skills, with a keen eye for accuracy, consistency, and brand voice. • Proven ability to manage multiple deadline-driven tasks across print and digital platforms with minimal supervision. • Experience with production workflows and project management tools such as Trello. • Working knowledge of content management systems such as WordPress, and familiarity with SEO best practices. • Comfort collaborating cross-functionally with print and digital editorial teams. • Excellent written communication skills with a strong command of brand voice across multiple properties. • Ability to organize and track competing deadlines across multiple brands and formats. • Sound editorial judgment and the confidence to flag issues, ask questions, and uphold quality standards under deadline pressure. • Bachelor's degree in journalism, English, communications, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.