Entertainment Editor, Queerty
Current- Maintaining Queerty’s Entertainment vertical with a regular cadence of timely news stories,features, and interviews that cover pop culture and media by and for LGBTQ+ audiences.
- Assessing social media trends and utilizing digital analytics tools to determine topics Queerty’saudience is interested in, and developing original story ideas based on those insights.
- Managing a diverse network of staff contributors and freelancers via assigning, editing, andevaluating pitches for pieces that bring new perspectives to our Entertainment coverage.
- Working in tandem with Queerty’s Social Media Manager to ensure content is packaged andpromoted in a manner suitable to each unique social platform—inclusive of: crafting engagingheadlines, writing social copy.
- Executing Queerty’s tentpole features, including digital cover stories, our Pride Month spotlightof trailblazing LGBTQ+ individuals “Pride50,” our profiles of impactful coming out stories “OutFor Good,” and our annual.
- Maintaining positive key relationships with interview subjects, publicists and other entertainmentcontacts for future stories and reporting.