Job Title Editorial Assistant, People.com
Job Description I. Job Summary | Major goals and objectives. PEOPLE is looking for an editorial assistant to join our digital team. This position will involve writing news and trending stories for PEOPLE across various verticals. This person must be a strong writer as well as a digitally-savvy pop culture and celebrity expert, with knowledge of SEO best practices.
This person should be comfortable writing stories on topics across PEOPLE.com's verticals-like entertainment, royals, crime, and human interest. Their work can range from breaking news to a pick-up of a celebrity appearance on a late-night show or podcast. They will also write evergreen content in anticipation of a news event ("How to Watch the Met Gala Online") or in response to it ("Everything We Know About Scandoval").
They should have good editorial judgment, and will work closely with the SEO & Growth teams to identify trends and timely stories. We're looking for someone who will be excited to mine SEO tools, discover what is trending, and pitch their ideas.
Speed is essential in our fast-paced newsroom-an estimate of 3-5 stories per day while still delivering clean and accurate work. This person should be able to adapt to PEOPLE's rigorous style guide across different departments and topics.
II. Essential Job FunctionsWeight % - Accountabilities, Actions and Expected Measurable Results
65% - Writing and publishing new content, closely adhering to PEOPLE's style guide and ensuring all copy is clean and accurate as well as optimized for SEO
25% - Working with the Growth/SEO teams, monitoring the news cycle, and
using SEO tools like Google Trends to identify holes in the newsroom's current coverage
5% - Updating existing content as needed
5% - Miscellaneous editorial projects (ex. reviewing lists of articles to see if they need to be updated)
100% III. Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements | All must be met to be considered. Education: BA or BS
Experience: 1+ years experience writing celebrity news, or in a related lifestyle space
Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Strong writing and editing skills, impeccable journalistic standards, and
- attention to detail.
- Ability to respond quickly to breaking news
- Knowledge of Google Trends and Google Analytics to find trending stories (news and evergreen angles of news events)
- Experience in a CMS
- Demonstrated knowledge of celebrity and pop culture.
- Detail-oriented and organized, yet loves a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
% Travel Required (Approximate) : 0
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Pay Range Hourly: $17.30 - $21.63
The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Dotdash *** 's total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, Dotdash *** provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, unlimited paid time off (PTO), adoption or surrogate assistance, donation matching, tuition reimbursement, basic life insurance, basic accidental death & dismemberment, supplemental life insurance, supplemental accident insurance, commuter benefits, short term and long term disability, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family care benefits, a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents), all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with Dotdash *** and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.
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