Senior Editor, Conferences & Events

🔥 13 hours ago

🐊 Florida – Remote

🐊 Florida – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

✏️ Editor

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Bionews, Inc.

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Healthcare • Marketing • Healthcare Insurance

Bionews, Inc. is a digital health solutions company focused on connecting and engaging rare disease patient communities. It provides trusted information, news, and therapeutic connections to empower over 50 rare disease communities, fostering a supportive environment for patients and caregivers. By incorporating the voices of those living with rare conditions, Bionews elevates patient and caregiver experiences and leads several patient communities. With a team primarily composed of individuals connected to rare diseases, Bionews provides authentic insights that shape their communications and partnerships, offering a significant impact in the realm of rare disease engagement and advocacy.

📋 Description

• Develop and execute editorial strategy across rare disease conferences, aligning coverage with audience needs and business objectives • Identify high-impact research, clinical developments, emerging trends, technologies, and other newsworthy stories • File timely and accurate stories under deadline pressure from conference floors • Lead conference planning with editorial calendars, coverage priorities, freelance staffing and assignments, budgets, and pre- and post-conference content • Attend select conferences in person and cover keynote sessions, new data, and patient or advocacy news in real time • Partner with advocacy, editorial, news, audience development, commercial, sales, community, and patient advisory teams • Lead the end-to-end editorial process from story ideation and assignment through reporting, editing, fact-checking, and publication • Assign, edit, and publish news stories, research summaries, interviews, and analyses • Translate complex scientific information into clear, accurate, and engaging stories • Conduct interviews with researchers, clinicians, advocacy groups, and industry leaders • Coordinate onsite reporters, freelancers, and contributors • Serve as senior editorial lead at key conferences and lead fast-paced news coverage • Recruit, vet, and onboard freelance reporters covering medical and scientific conferences • Manage freelancer budgets, deadlines, and performance • Identify key sessions, connect with sources, and align coverage with community priorities • Integrate conference coverage with broader editorial planning and breaking news needs • Incorporate audience feedback into conference coverage strategy • Report on coverage performance and continuously refine strategy based on audience engagement and community input

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of journalism experience • Experience covering medical, scientific, or health-related conferences • Demonstrated experience managing or editing freelance writers • Strong news judgment and ability to identify newsworthy angles quickly, including under deadline pressure • Excellent editing skills, with close attention to accuracy and AP style • Experience building relationships with researchers, clinicians, patient advocates, and advocacy organizations • Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple freelancers, conferences, and deadlines simultaneously • Comfortable and effective working cross-functionally with editorial, advocacy, community, and sales teams • Willingness and ability to travel frequently to attend conferences, expected at 3–4 conferences per year • Bachelor's degree in journalism, communications, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience • Preferred: Existing familiarity with the rare disease, chronic illness, or broader patient advocacy landscape • Preferred: Experience with a content management system and basic multimedia reporting, including photo, video, or social reporting from the field

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work format • Travel to attend 3–4 in-person conferences per year • Opportunity to work across editorial, audience development, sales, advocacy, news, community, and commercial teams • Professional opportunity to lead editorial strategy and content programming for rare disease conferences and events