Easton, PA Production Jobs

Why *** Magazines?

*** Magazines is one of the largest publishers in the world, with more than 25 brands, including Cosmopolitan , ELLE , Esquire , Good Housekeeping , Harper's BAZAAR , Popular Mechanics , and Oprah Daily . We reach more than 150 million people every month in the United States alone.

But we're more than just our magazines. We engage our audience across all mediums and channels-print, digital, video, and social-with sophisticated content creation, distribution, and data capabilities. We create, package, and sell products with cutting-edge technology and proprietary platforms. Together, we are reinventing publishing for the 21st century.

Your Impact

The Enthusiast Group- Bicycling , Runner's World , Popular Mechanics , Biography.com, and Best Products-is seeking a highly organized, detail- and deadline-oriented Editorial Assistant to join the team. The ideal candidate has a background in English, journalism, or communications. While not required, the candidate has some experience in print and digital production.

Job Responsibilities

• Assist in the content-focused segment of production of print and digital issues for Bicycling , Runner's World , and Popular Mechanics , including Apple News digital issues-both during production and in the final stages before issues are approved for publication.
• Evaluate written content to ensure it is clear, consistent, and error-free.
• Create issue lineups and work with our production team to finalize maps and story order; approve ad adjacencies, troubleshoot paging issues, and more.
• Create story files in WoodWing Studio for print and Apple News+ issues for all three brands.
• Manage the research and legal reviews of all relevant content, including updating and expanding our fact-checker database and negotiating freelance rates.
• Update and maintain the Issues Wall in our Easton office with all current print issues, as well as the status board with full-year lineups.
• Support other editorial needs such as posting issue cover reveals in Slack, keeping all mastheads (both editorial and corporate) up to date, gathering Apple News+ headlines and commerce links from editors, updating our copyrights for each issue, and providing Runner's World issue lineups to our international partners.
• Become a Coda superuser in order to assist with glitches, fixes, and requested changes. (Coda is our internal tracking software used by all teams in the Enthusiast Group.)

Qualifications

• You have experience with the following programs and platforms: Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Teams), Google (Docs, Forms, Sheets), Zoom, Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, InCopy).
• You are proficient in macOS.
• You are able to communicate effectively and clearly, including in written emails.
• You are professional and have a strong sense of discretion and good judgment when handling confidential information.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment and can juggle multiple deadlines at once.
• You are confident in your ability to make decisions.
• You have a degree in journalism, English, or a related field.
• You hold a Bachelor's degree.

The base salary for this role is $55,000-$57,000. The base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as: transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Based in Easton, PA, hybrid in-office schedule.

This is a position covered under the Writers Guild of America, East, Collective Bargaining Agreement.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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Why *** Magazines?

*** Magazines' portfolio of more than 25 powerful brands in the U.S. - including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper's BAZAAR, Popular Mechanics - inspires, entertains and builds new and bold experiences for an engaged and growing audience across digital, video, social and print , reaching nearly 139 million readers and site visitors each month. With sophisticated content creation, cutting-edge technology and industry-leading data capabilities, we make *** and products that move people across all platforms.

We are a global *** company that publishes nearly 260 magazine editions and 200 websites around the world and, t ogether, we are reinventing publishing for the 21st century.

Your impact:

*** 's Enthusiast Group - Bicycling, Popular Mechanics, Runner's World, Best Products, and Biography.com - seeks an energetic, creative, detail-obsessed photo editor to create, procure, produce, and distribute photographic imagery and content for all our brands. The position will commission photography, conduct photo research, and produce in-house photoshoots for a range of articles across all platforms.

The ideal candidate has at least three years of experience producing visual content within the editorial and/or journalism space and needs to be a strong communicator and a self-starter. This position requires a sharp visual eye, and as a bonus, an affinity for running, riding, science, tech, outdoors, and/or DIY.

The role is based in the Enthusiast Group headquarters in Easton, Pennsylvania, working in the office 3 days a week. We will not be able to consider remote candidates.

For consideration, resumes must be submitted in PDF format with a cover letter, salary requirements, and a link to a portfolio of work.

What you'll do:

• Work alongside the photo director and other members of photo / design team to originate and supply visuals across all channels
• Pitch ideas and source imagery that matches and elevates the mission of each brand
• Collaborate with the photo team and the Enthusiast Group's strategic leaders to ensure photography plays a key role in meeting performance metrics across the group
• Help assistant or associate photo editor achieve targets and reach metrics
• Produce all photographs on an aggressive budget and production schedule
• Manage multiple projects while meeting tight deadlines
• Identify and build relationships with the best photographers in each brand's space as well as mainstream photographers with an affinity in our topic areas

Who you are:

• 3 years professional experience providing photographic content for *** or brands
• Excellent visual eye and strong knowledge of photographers and industry trends
• Experience commissioning editorial photography preferred
• Able to manage feedback from multiple parties and deal with fast-changing priorities
• Able to manage multiple projects while meeting tight deadlines

The base salary for this role is *** ween $ 62,310 and $63,500 The actual base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as: transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future .

This is a position covered under the Writers Guild of America, East, Collective Bargaining Agreement.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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Why *** Magazines?
*** Magazines is one of the largest publishers in the world, with more than 25 brands, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper's BAZAAR, Popular Mechanics, and Runner's World. We reach more than 150 million people every month in the United States alone.

But we're more than just our magazines. We engage our audience across all mediums and channels-print, digital, video, and social-with sophisticated content creation, distribution, and data capabilities. We create, package, and sell products with cutting-edge technology and proprietary platforms. Together, we are reinventing publishing for the 21st century.

Your Impact

The *** Magazines Enthusiast Group is looking for a versatile, data-motivated reviews writer/editor to join our team and expand our product journalism and recommendations on Popular Mechanics, as well as Runner's World and Bicycling. This role works closely with editors in all departments, from our in-house testing team to our news department, and should be comfortable covering a wide range of subjects. Our brands are the authority in a number of key categories including lawn and garden, tools and home improvement, electronics and technology, running and cycling gear, and more. You'll have the opportunity to recommend products to over 60 million users per month.

The ideal candidate will have at least three years of post-grad writing experience for an online *** company or publisher. He or she should be skilled at sourcing and recommending products in a highly informative yet entertaining manner, and should be confident informing our highly capable audience, inspiring them, empowering them, equipping them, and connecting them with the tools, gear, accessories, and resources they need to live a life of creativity and craftsmanship.

This role reports directly to the deputy editor for the Reviews Team and works closely with a variety of departments, including Performance Marketing, and Executive Stakeholders.

Please note: For consideration, resumes must be submitted in PDF format with a cover letter, salary requirements, and a link to a portfolio of clips.

What you'll do:

• Write, edit, and update reviews content that responds to a season, a trend, a project, and other brand goals.
• Support search and affiliate revenue goals with a flexible mindset and the ability to change course quickly.
• Collaborate with our testing team and staff experts for product suggestions, brand recommendations, insights, and guidance. We have decades of experience at our disposal and we embrace that to guarantee all content is authentic.
• Enhance the user experience through creative layout, clever copy, strategizing with the photo department, and choosing retailers appropriately.
• Create buying guides that are digestible, shoppable, and highly authoritative. You will evaluate the product landscape, consult in-house experts, analyze research, scrutinize reviews and ultimately provide our audience with purchasing advice.
• Identify reliable sources, retailers, experts, and brands. You will be directly i *** uencing what our readers purchase.
• Use Google Analytics and our data management platform to optimize content for affiliate revenue.

Who you are:

• A minimum of 3 years writing.
• A minimum of 1 year in product journalism.
• Expertise or a passion for one or more of our key categories is preferred.
• A flexible mindset. We pivot and reprioritize quickly.
• Basic understanding of SEO and commerce content best practices.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced digital environment.
• Strong copywriter, capable of writing engaging, lively headlines and blurbs, all the while keeping the PopMech voice in mind.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written.
• Must be able to collaborate and foster positive relationships with colleagues.
• Experience working within a CMS.

The base salary for this role is *** ween $62,310 - $68,600. The actual base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as: transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

This is a position covered under the Writers Guild of America, East, Collective Bargaining Agreement.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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