Lifestyle/Entertainment Editing Fellow (Summer 2024)
Business Insider is hiring a fellow to join our freelance team to cover lifestyle and entertainment.
Business Insider is for people who are driven, optimistic and always looking forward. Our mission is to inspire action through thought-provoking stories. We tell our audience what they want and need to know to improve their lives and the world with storytelling that is accessible, smart, sometimes unexpected, and always helpful. Our team members embody and uphold Business Insider’s three core values: we are all one team, we are effective, and we strive to get better every day.
The Business Insider Fellowship Program is for early career journalists who want to spend six months learning from a newsroom full of passionate, dedicated journalists. Fellows are assigned to teams and become experts in digital storytelling. They produce real work that is distributed to our audience of millions, and by the end of six months, they are prepared for the next phase of their journalism careers. This role requires you to work for 40 hours a week and can be fully remote.
The Role & Team:
As the Business Insider editorial fellow, lifestyle and entertainment, you will work with freelance writers around the globe to brainstorm, package, and publish stories across verticals like food, travel, movies, and interior design.
This role is a chance for early-career journalists who want to pursue a career in editing to get hands-on experience taking stories from early brainstorming stages to final publication. The ideal candidate has a passion for putting the perfect final touch on a story and for providing detailed edits and feedback to writers. To be clear, this role does not involve writing or reporting.
This role reports directly to an editor and sits on the Lifestyle and Entertainment freelance desk. This role will be fully remote, but candidates should expect to work from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET.
Key Responsibilities:
- Seeking out new talent and pitch story angles for our target audience under the food, travel, entertainment, design, and style verticals
- Fact-checking, editing, and building stories on Google Docs and in BI’s CMS
- Packaging stories with catchy headlines, impressive photos, and killer SEO
- Tracking story-performance metrics using our in-house tools and data
The ideal candidate has:
- Previous experience with proofreading, fact-checking, and copyediting
- Passion for Business Insider’s lifestyle verticals and for becoming a stronger editor
- Good instincts for what BI’s audience finds interesting, especially when it comes to a wide range of topics like interior design, travel, fashion, TV shows, and food
- Stellar organizational and communication skills
Additionally, all of our editorial fellows should have:
- A passion for digital storytelling and voracious reading habits
- Familiarity with digital and social media
- The ability to work quickly and collaboratively with a fast-paced team
- Proofreading and copyediting skills
- A love of Business Insider and our mission to serve readers with the information and inspiration they need in a way that’s accurate, fair, fast, and fun
Salary & Benefits:
- Fellows are paid $20 per hour (overtime when needed and approved)
- PTO and paid holidays
- Eligible for medical, dental, and vision benefits on 91st day of employment
Please apply with a resume and cover letter and specify why you're interested in working on this team. If you’d like some tips, check out our best practices guide. Applications will close on April 15th.
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