Assistant Fashion Editor

Responsibilities

• Lead Styles’s Fashion News coverage
• Assign, first edit and shape several pieces per week
• Manage a team of reporters, including being the liaison for our newsletter
• Shape the fashion coverage on the desk, track news trends and ensure the right stories are covered and published on deadline.
• Communicate with other desks when story ideas crash into each other
• Manage staff writers, helping them to develop their beats while contributing to the desk’s goals
• Strategize with visual editors from a story or project’s inception to publication
• In consultation with the desk head and deputy, on news
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world

Qualifications

• 10+ years in journalism with experience managing staff writers
• Expert story shaping and line editing skills
• Experience working on multi-platform formats