Temporary Copyeditor

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $35 / hour

⏱ Part Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Hearst Health

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1001 - 5000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

☁️ SaaS

Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance • SaaS

Hearst Health is a division of Hearst Communications that focuses on guiding important care moments in healthcare by delivering vital information to all those involved in a person's health journey. It provides evidence-based clinical guidelines and healthcare workforce management solutions through its various subsidiaries including FDB (First Databank), Zynx Health, MCG, Homecare Homebase, MHK, and QGenda. Hearst Health aims to improve care quality and efficiency by using scalable technology to deliver clinical decision support and workforce management solutions, impacting the majority of people in the U. S. Its mission is supported by prominent leaders in the healthcare and technology sectors at Hearst Health.

📋 Description

• Copyedit manuscripts for grammar, spelling, punctuation, syntax, clarity, consistency, and readability while preserving author voice and brand style • Ensure editorial content follows Hearst editorial standards and The Chicago Manual of Style • Edit manuscripts in Microsoft Word using Track Changes and editorial content in Adobe InCopy • Review and mark corrections on Adobe Acrobat PDF page proofs across multiple proof rounds • Verify recipes, captions, sidebars, tables, charts, pull quotes, URLs, cross-references, page references, running heads, folios, and other editorial elements • Identify factual inconsistencies, ambiguous language, permissions concerns, legal issues, and editorial questions • Partner with Project Editors and Managing Editors to resolve editorial issues • Collaborate with editorial, design, and production teams across multiple concurrent projects • Meet production deadlines • Perform final quality-control reviews before files are released to prepress and printing

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, Communications, Publishing, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience • Minimum of three (3) years of professional copyediting experience in book, magazine, or special-interest publishing • Expert knowledge of English grammar, punctuation, spelling, and usage • Strong working knowledge of The Chicago Manual of Style • Experience using Microsoft Word with Track Changes • Experience using Adobe InCopy • Experience using Adobe Acrobat Pro for PDF markup and commenting • Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced publishing environment • Ability to identify inconsistencies while maintaining author voice and brand tone • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision • High degree of professionalism, discretion, and confidentiality • Preferred: experience copyediting cookbooks, lifestyle, health, wellness, home, food, automotive, or consumer publications • Preferred: experience with book, magazine, or bookazine production workflows • Preferred: familiarity with Adobe InDesign workflows, print production, and page composition • Preferred: experience reviewing multiple rounds of page proofs through final files

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Project-based temporary position • Flexible hours that vary based on production schedules and project workload