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The New Yorker is a multi-platform media enterprise, spanning print, digital, audio, video, and live events. Founded in 1925, The New Yorker is considered by many to be the most influential magazine in the world, renowned for its in-depth reporting, political and cultural commentary, fiction, poetry, humor, and cartoons. In addition to the weekly print magazine, The New Yorker has become a daily digital destination for news and cultural coverage by its staff writers and other contributors.

In print and online, The New Yorker stands apart for its commitment to truth and accuracy, for the quality of its prose, and its insistence on exciting and moving every reader. To see all New Yorker job openings, visit

Location:

New York, NY

Condé Nast is a global media company producing the highest quality content with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers in 32 territories through print, digital, video and social platforms. The company’s portfolio includes many of the world’s most respected and influential media properties including Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Self, GQ, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler/Traveller, Allure, AD, Bon Appétit and Wired, among others.

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Social-Media Editor, The New Yorker

The New Yorker is seeking a creative and highly collaborative Social-Media Editor to help shape how the magazine’s journalism appears across social platforms. This editor will work closely with colleagues across editorial, art, photo, video, audience, and analytics to develop compelling, platform-native expressions of The New Yorker’s stories as well as social-native brand extensions, mindful that these venues mark many visitors’ principal encounter with the brand.

The Social-Media Editor is a strong writer, editor, and digital storyteller with excellent editorial judgment, a deep understanding of social platforms, and a sharp eye for how journalism can be translated into distinctive short-form, visual, and multimedia formats. The person in this role will help develop social-first treatments, recurring formats, video and visual storytelling approaches, and platform-specific executions that extend the reach and impact of The New Yorker’s journalism while preserving the magazine’s voice, standards, and sensibility.

The ideal candidate is comfortable moving between creative development and hands-on production. This is a Guild position.

Responsibilities

• Develop platform-native social treatments for New Yorker journalism across established and emerging platforms.

• Write, edit, and produce social-native assets, including short-form video, platform-specific visual packages, copy, and other creative materials.

• Work closely with art, photo, video, editorial, audience development, and analytics teams to develop and execute social treatments for major stories, packages, tentpoles, and editorial initiatives.

• Work with the Director of Social Media to execute daily, weekly, and weekend publishing priorities through strong platform-specific framing, copy, visuals, and formats.

• Develop and help lead new social-first formats, franchises, and other recurring or experimental treatments.

• Provide editorial and creative guidance to other team members on post framing, platform…