HEARST COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Assistant Editor, Oprah Daily (Creative Design)
Why Hearst Magazines?
Hearst 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:
Oprah Daily is looking for a thoughtful, creative, and energetic team player who loves the brand to join our fast-growing editorial team. As an assistant editor, you will report to the deputy editor and will generate ideas, build digital stories, pitch stories, and write copy for digital and print pieces, working across departments at Oprah Daily.
Please note: 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:
• Stay on top of news, culture, and service journalism trends
• Pitch and develop story ideas in the Oprah Daily voice, across content categories including culture/news, personal growth and development, and relationships
• Build digital stories for the Oprah Daily site
• Report and write stories assigned by editors from across the brand
• Write both digital and print pieces
• First-edit stories by outside contributors, under the guidance and direction of senior editors and top editors at the brand
Who you are:
• You have a minimum of 1 year of professional, post-grad digital or print media experience in the consumer lifestyle space
• You have a passion for the Oprah brand—and for our editorial mission to support our audience's goals to live with purpose
• You're able to quickly and consistently write in the Oprah Daily voice: oriented toward bringing daily delight into our audience's lives, and supporting their journey toward living their best lives
• You are excited to pitch story ideas that align with the brand voice and have the potential to bring in large audiences using SEO best practices and learnings from Google Analytics and Google Trends
• You are detail-oriented, professional, energetic, and have the desire to grow and thrive in a fast-paced publishing environment
• You are a team player with a problem-solving mindset who is excited to join a start-up team and build a new culture and brand
• You love great storytelling
As part of its continued efforts to maintain a safe workplace for employees, Hearst Magazines requires that all employees who receive a written offer of employment on or after November 15, 2021 be fully vaccinated (as defined by the CDC) against the coronavirus by the first day of employment as a condition of employment, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
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