Fortune is looking for an experienced magazine copy editor to join our editorial team full-time, either based in our New York City headquarters or working remotely. Both in print and online, Fortune engages readers with great storytelling, impactful journalism, meaty reporting, must-read lists, and expert explainers to make sense of the 21st-century business world. Fortune’s copy editors carry on the publication’s 92-year legacy by making sure the product is the best it can be, overseeing spelling, syntax, grammar, and style, and by improving accuracy and consistency.
Fortune’s copy editors help provide backup fact-checking as well, referencing past coverage and credible online sources to confirm information. They keep an eye out for opportunities to add additional context and balance.
Fortune’s copy editors also serve as coordinators for the print magazine closes, tracking progress of the issue, circulating pages among writers and editors for approval, and transmitting finished stories to the printer.
You will:
- Copyedit stories published on Fortune.com, as well as those in the print magazine, which publishes six times a year
- Copyedit content in other formats and mediums, including graphics and videos
- Answer staff copy questions to uphold Fortune’s formatting standards and voice
- Coordinate among a small team of copy editors to efficiently divide workload based on priority
- Communicate with writers and editors when making changes to copy, either when something is unclear or when there’s an issue beyond a minor grammatical or factual error
- Help maintain, revise, add to, and enforce the Fortune style guide
- Attend editorial meetings to learn new newsroom workflows and applicable tech tools
The right candidate has:
- 5+ years of experience copyediting for a publisher (magazine experience preferred)
- Interest in financial journalism and curiosity about the wide range of topics that fit under that umbrella, including cryptocurrency, NFTs, the housing market, powerful women in business, Silicon Valley, artificial intelligence, and autonomous vehicles
- Ability to copyedit efficiently without compromising accuracy
- Impeccable communication skills (written and verbal)
- Experience using Adobe InCopy and InDesign
- Agility with Slack, Airtable, and/or other cloud-based digital collaboration tools
- Experience working in a content management system such as WordPress
- Proactive, collaborative attitude and a desire to make stories better
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Chris RoushChris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.