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New York, Ny, Us

New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

Develop and grow hellomagazine.com for U.S. audience (~14 million monthly uniques per Comscore in 2023) by building authority on a broader range of celebrities and topics, sharpening news coverage, elevating the editorial product with more exclusive and premium content, and increasing brand awareness. Edit daily news stories, features, interviews, digital covers, and exclusives. Attend and report on royal events including King Charles' coronation and NYC visits from Prince William, Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle. Report and write other celebrity exclusives. Manage and mentor U.S-focused editors, writers in NYC, L.A.. London, and Sydney. Curate and update U.S.-facing homepage. Manage breaking news coverage and special events. Create and maintain staff-wide editorial style guide. Develop and execute push notification, newsletter strategy for U.S. Collaborate with colleagues in video, social, audience, engagement, and sales/marketing on growth initiatives and special projects. Book and manage talent for special events. Guest-host weekly podcast.

New York, New York

Manage, grow, and transform content-management team into a robust editorial organization for a profitable startup with 12 million newsletter subscribers. Oversee ideation, assignment, curating, and editing of content for six-plus daily newsletter brands covering trivia, travel, general interest and other learning categories. Raise quality standards across brands, recast freelancer pool with high-caliber professional writers and journalists. Pitch, develop complex new brands for future launch, recruit specialist writers and freelancers, stockpile content for launch. Revamp day-to-day operations, working with managing editors to establish greater efficiencies and productivity, set and meet established data performance metrics. Uphold, thread company mission into daily practice and output.

Greater New York City Area

Oversee Entertainment, Fashion and Beauty verticals, manage combined staff of 20-plus. Responsible for in-depth features, essays, reviews, Q&As, news coverage, and galleries across categories (also including Health/Wellness, News/Politics, Lifestyle, Work & Money). Work with Category Heads, social media team and content strategists to meet and exceed traffic and growth goals. Recruit, interview and hire editorial talent. Brainstorm, develop sellable cross-category packages in collaboration with sales, marketing, experiential and other departments. Manage Fashion vertical for six months as acting director. Manage Work & Money vertical as acting director.

Greater New York City Area

Help lead daily operations for RollingStone.com. Curate, update homepage. Help assign, ideate, top-edit news stories, feature stories, long-form packages and essays on music, TV, movies, politics, culture, sports, video games. Spearhead evolution of digital brand, with a focus on cultivating a younger, more millennial readership and a more aggressive news approach, a more dynamic coverage of pop and internet culture, and smarter, SEO-driven practices for story selection, headline construction, breaking news scenarios and special events. Develop long-range strategies for growth, survival of brand. Pitch package, feature ideas for print magazine. Coordinate bi-weekly rollout of magazine features for digital. Track, analyze daily, weekly traffic patterns for content curation lessons. Write, report stories for the site. Write, edit video scripts; film segments. Collaborate with ad-sales on sponsored programs.

New York, Ny

Build, manage daily lineup (70-plus pieces of content), assign and edit stories; curate and update the homepage regularlly. Foster continued web site traffic growth via savvy SEO practices, breaking and furthering celebrity news exclusives, discovering under-served audiences and new, topical subject areasManage team of writers, editors, social media editors, freelancers in NYC, LA and UKMonitor and direct site content remotely during evening hours, weekendsLiaise with magazine's editor-in-chief, other senior-level print-side editors, reporters and internal PR team to strategize breaking news, exclusivesLiaise with social media editors on Facebook, Twitter and other platform strategiesRepresent Us Weekly in national television and radio appearances to discuss breaking celebrity news stories and ongoing trends; have appeared on Headline News, NBC News, ABC News, TV Guide Channel, Bio, Fox News.

New York, New York

New York, New York

Report at red carpet events (movie premieres, launches, galas, receptions, after-parties) in NYC area -- interview actors, singers, artists, socialites, politicians, directors and other celebs for publications like Us Weekly, New York magazine (print and online and elsewhere).Interview authors, actors, singers, artists and other celebs for one-on-one interviews/profiles for New York magazine, Time Out New York, Out magazine, The Advocate and elsewhere.Review films, albums, books and other media for Vulture.com, Time Out New York, New York Press, Out, Advocate and elsewhere.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English Language And Literature/Letters

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