Apple News provides millions of users with trusted information from leading news organizations around the globe. Editors at Apple News highlight the best and most engaging content on our platform in a fun and fast-paced team environment. Editors on the copy and standards team work to ensure that our team’s copy is error-free, stylistically sound, and adheres to News standards.
Description
The right person for this role has experience copyediting for a major news organization. We’re looking for someone who has experience with a variety of content-management systems and a keen understanding of the tools that support state-of-the-art editorial. Our next editor will have both copyediting skills and a strong grasp of journalistic ethics and standards.
Minimum Qualifications
At least four years’ experience copyediting for a professional news publication.
Strong proofreading, line-editing, and copyediting skills.
Strong communication skills and an ability to work flexibly with other editorial-team members.
Strong critical-thinking skills.
Firm grasp of journalistic ethics and standards.
Familiarity with a variety of style guides.
Familiarity with a variety of content-management systems.
Experience editing multiple pieces of content on deadline.
Experience working to develop or update a style guide for a publication.
Fact-checking experience at a professional news publication.
An interest in hard news.
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor’s or master’s degree.
Understanding of the changing media environment.
Experience editing a variety of forms of media.
Responsibilities
Copyediting newsletters, editorially curated collections within the app, social copy, and more.
Using your journalistic experience, sound editorial judgment, and team standards to assist editors with curation decisions.
Performing basic fact-checking.
Working with the Apple News operations and engineering departments to provide editorial input on copy-, standards-, and ethics-related decisions.
Surfacing bugs and other performance issues.
Eeo Content
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