Features editor job description

The Features Editor drives discussion around games, the industry, and the gaming community. This role collaborates with the news, social, and other editorial leads to determine topics of interest to our readers and creative ways to cover those topics. By leveraging our staff's deep knowledge and expertise, we seek to contextualize, inform, and entertain in our features. The Features Editor not only identifies the issues we and the rest of the industry should be talking about, but, just as importantly, also guides our team on how we should be talking about them.

IGN's editorial team is made up of all kinds of people that share a common love of games, TV, movies, comics, tech, and all things geeky. We strongly encourage people of every race, gender, sexual orientation, and background to apply.
Responsibilities


Get IGN out in front of the big discussions we need to be having in the industry and help develop our reputation as a mature leader on these topics.
Own the intersection between news and the conversations around it, adding commentary and opinion to news coverage and overall trends and important topics you identify.
Collaborate with the internal team of writers and video editors -- as well as freelancers -- to create content that spans multiple platforms from IGN.com to our YouTube and social pages.
Onboard, assign and edit freelancers with topical expertise and work with them to create opinions and investigations that fairly explore all angles of a given story.
Maintain a features calendar that takes advantage of big releases, events, and anniversaries and also helps sustain traffic during cycles of low preview and review output.
Work with the video production team to discover and curate opportunities to adapt features content into video components.
Foster IGN writers'/editors' natural inclination and interest in gaming topics, including varying contributors and points of view to coordinate regular opinion pieces (e.g. columns).
Spearhead the production of quick response videos, interviews, podcasts, and commentaries based on trending topics.
Coordinate with IGN's commerce team to facilitate editorially-appropriate content.

Required skills


You have established experience as a senior writer and editor.
You consider yourself embedded in tracking gaming news, and seek to constantly reframe the biggest stories through follow-up features and commentary.
You understand how to write for IGN's audience and can collaborate with our audience development team to optimize your pieces for both search and organic discovery.
You have strong editorial opinions, excellent writing and editing skills, and are already writing about gaming (please share the published work your proudest of with us!)
You have established contacts in the gaming industry.


It would be extra awesome if...


You have good camera presence and can speak extemporaneously on games and entertainment-related topics.
You have experience in the entertainment or tech industry, in addition to games.
You have management experience and/or have managed a freelance budget worked and worked with contributors on a regular basis.
You have regularly covered trade shows and conventions.
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If you think this sounds like the job for you, please apply here and make sure to provide a resume, and cover letter. (If you're having any issues uploading multiple documents, feel free to combine them into one.)

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• 5+ years of editing experience at a website, newspaper, or magazine
• Experience publishing stories and editing copy in content management systems
• Always-on approach to work
• Commitment to accurate, clean copy; fact-checking or copy-editing background
• Must be comfortable working with a broad range of cross-functional staff
• Excellent organizational and time management skills-ability to perform in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment, and think quickly and strategically to meet tight deadlines
• Distinguish the good content from the "noise"

Core Competencies:

• Journalistic Pedigree
• Editing Prowess
• Mentoring Skill
• Organizational Savvy
• Understanding of Complex Brand

About BuzzFeed, Inc.

BuzzFeed, Inc. is the world's leading tech-powered, diversified media company that reaches hundreds of millions of people globally through its cross-platform news and entertainment network. The company produces articles, lists, quizzes, videos, and original series; lifestyle content through brands including Tasty, the world's largest social food network; original reporting and investigative journalism through BuzzFeed News and HuffPost; an industry-leading affiliate business, strategic partnerships, licensing and product development through BuzzFeed Commerce; and original productions across broadcast, cable, SVOD, film and digital platforms for BuzzFeed Studios.

Life at BuzzFeed, Inc.

We celebrate inclusion and are committed to equal opportunity employment. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.

You can expect:

• A supportive, inclusive atmosphere on a team that values your contributions
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth through work experience, offerings from our in-house Learning at BuzzFeed (L@B) team, our Employee Resource Groups, and more
• An attractive and equitable compensation package, including salary and stock options.
• A great benefits program featuring paid time off, unlimited sick time, comprehensive medical benefits, a family leave policy, access to mental health platforms, retirement plans, gym and wellness discounts, and much more.

We want all employees to feel safe and comfortable when they engage in any in-person meetings, when visiting the office, or when working from an offsite production or meeting location. As part of this commitment to health and safety, BuzzFeed requires COVID-19 vaccines for current U.S. employees, including all newly hired employees. Requests for accommodation per applicable law for health and/or religious reasons will be considered. Union employees are subject to what is outlined in their applicable collective bargaining agreement.

Note: BuzzFeed, Inc. offers remote/flexible work (unless specified to be required to be in-person) and open to hiring remote candidates who are residents in the following states: CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, MI, MS, MT, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA, and WV. For non sales roles, we can also hire in AK, AR, AZ, ID, KS, MO, ND, SC, and VT.

Screen Rant is the #1 independent entertainment website on the web and publishes up-to-the-minute news on blockbuster movies, TV, video games, and comic books. Our editorial team is looking for an Editor to oversee Star Wars Features content under the leadership of the Movie/TV Lead Editor. The selected candidate will have tremendous career growth opportunity within the organization. Please note that this role does not involve video editing or script editing.

Responsibilities

• Edit and publish a minimum of 10 Star Wars posts daily on the Movie/TV Features team
  • Combination of editing/writing (mostly editing)
• Participate in writer development and general writer management
  • Oversee and facilitate writer communication in Discord/Asana
  • Send feedback to writers according to Screen Rant's standards (as per our writing guides)
  • Work with new writers to develop their skills and help them adapt to Screen Rant's standards
  • Work with existing writers to develop those suitable for internal development (staff writing, self-publishing, editing)
• Idea generation
  • Develop content plans
  • Target evergreen topics
• Weekly meetings
  • Come prepared with notes and analyses
• Additional tasks
  • Approve sniping SEO/angles
  • Identify evergreen articles to update

Requirements

• Relevant experience in senior writing and editing roles (digital publications, entertainment content)
• Experienced and knowledgeable in Star Wars
• Quick learner with strong sense of urgency
• Excellent command of the English language
• Ability to write articles free of typos and grammatical errors

Applicants with experience in the following areas will be given favorable consideration:

• Image editing
• SEO
• Analytics (GA)
• Freelance writer management
• Proven track record of growing a team, expanding coverage, and driving traffic

What Screen Rant has to offer:

• Incredible opportunities for career growth within a supportive system
• An amazing community of like-minded professionals to nerd-out with on a daily basis

Only applicants who possess the necessary skills and experience will be contacted, and only applications containing a resume and cover letter will be considered. It is essential that you demonstrate your breadth of knowledge of popular Star Wars content in your cover letter. You will not be considered for the role if this information is not included . If you would like to write about Movies/TV but do not have the required experience for this particular role, kindly visit our Movie/TV Writer job posting and apply there instead. Please note that the next steps in the hiring process involve both a writing evaluation and an interview.

We're looking forward to hearing from you!

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