Part-time Copy Editor (Remote)

Location: Telecommute • Job Type: Contract

About the role

Strategic Copy Editor responsible for line editing, structural review, and publishing daily digital content for a premier sports and entertainment publication, ensuring journalistic standards, brand voice, and audience engagement.

Responsibilities

• Execute rigorous line editing and structural review across daily editorial pieces, show metadata, and social content.
• Orchestrate continuous copy flow by collaborating with senior editors, writers, and fact-checkers under tight deadlines.
• Manage digital asset publishing using WordPress to build, format, and maintain high-traffic web pages and features.
• Safeguard editorial integrity and brand voice by applying AP/Chicago styles, legal risk mitigation, and nuanced taste across sports and pop culture coverage.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional copy editing experience in a daily digital publication, media house, sports, or newsroom environment.
• Expert command of Chicago Manual of Style and AP Style, with proven expertise in structural editing, grammar, tone, and legal sensitivity.
• Demonstrated track record of performance under tight turnaround times in a high-volume, dynamic publishing workflow.
• Hands‑on proficiency with CMS platforms (WordPress) and strong editorial judgment, ideally paired with deep comfort editing sports and pop culture content.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Prescription coverage
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• AD&D insurance
• Life insurance
• Short‑term disability
• 401K plan (eligibility‑based)

Pay

$25 – $30 per hour

Schedule

Remote position; EST and CST timezones are preferred. Possible weekend shifts.