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The Epoch Times
Location: remote work, 0
Posted: April 12, 2023
Salary:
Description
The Epoch Times is looking for experienced editors and copy editors for our Canadian news team.
Working remotely, you will ensure content meets standards of quality, accuracy, and clarity, in keeping with our guiding principles of “Truth and Tradition.”
Working closely with our dedicated team of Canadian reporters, you will be responsible for editing Canadian news stories for our already substantial online and print readership.
Duties include: - Editing hard and soft news copy of varying lengths
- Writing and editing headlines for clarity, brevity, and impact
- Ensuring standards of quality, accuracy, clarity, and style in copy, headlines, and captions
- Editing to house style and ensuring adherence to Epoch Times news reporting guidance
- Working with content management systems in keeping with work-flow protocol
- Fact-checking and verification according to strict guidelines
- Providing honest, yet considerate, feedback to reporters and assignment editors
Qualifications
- Substantial professional experience as a full-time editor.
- Experience as a newsroom editor or other experience as a journalist.
- Strong editorial and grammar skills, with an excellent command of the English language.
- A demonstrable solid grasp of news and current affairs in Canada.
- Experience with WordPress and content management systems a plus.
- Genuine commitment to the Epoch Times guiding principles of Truth and Tradition and its core values.
Please include the following in your application: - A copy of your CV
- A cover letter explaining why you want to work for The Epoch Times
- Three samples from your portfolio
Please email the above, with a cover note stating you found this job on Jeff Gaulin's Journalism Job Board, to:
E-mail: hiring.ca@epochtimes.com
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