Category: New Media
online writer/editor
Urbanite magazine
Category: New MediaLocation: Baltimore
State: MD
Salary: negotiable
Duration of Position: permanent
Description:
Urbanite is hiring a team of five eloquent, energetic writer/editors to shape topic-specific e-magazines and the associated "channels" on the company's website. The five topics are as follows:
1. arts and culture
2. food and drink
3. home and design
4. style and shopping
5. the environment
Writer/editors will be responsible for daily blog posts and social media updates, weekly e-mail magazines, and monthly news stories and reviews for the website and print magazine. Content will be smart, streamlined, and grabby, and created with an eye to fostering community participation.
Writer/editors will work part-time (approximately 10 hours a week) from home. Hours are flexible, but blogs and social media must be tended 5 days a week.
Experience:
Applicants must have at least five years experience covering one of these topic areas in Baltimore or a similar size city. Must live in (or plan to move to) the Baltimore area. Must be Web-savvy and engaged in social media.
How To Apply:
Please send a cover letter specifying which of the topic areas you are interested in, along with a resume and writing samples, to:
Greg Hanscom, Senior Editor
Urbanite
2002 Clipper Park Rd., 4th Floor
Baltimore, MD 21211
greg@urbanitebaltimore.com
E-mail is preferred. Deadline for applications is January 31, 2010.
No phone calls, please.
Email: greg@urbanitebaltimore.com
Web site: http://www.urbanitebaltimore.com/
Posted: 01/04/2010 - 08:58 a.m.
Modified: 01/04/2010 - 10:23 a.m.
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