Features Editor Job Description
Features editor
provides feedback to BuzzFeed News writers across departments and in our bureaus around the world, teaching best practices in health and science reporting.
Features Editor Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Identify original ideas for enterprising, analytical stories for Nature, with a focus on physics, chemistry, astronomy, materials science, computing and technology
Generate and identify original ideas for enterprising, analytical stories for Nature, with a focus on physics, chemistry, astronomy, materials science, computing, technology and artificial intelligence, and commission those stories
Generate and identify original ideas for enterprising, analytical stories for Nature, with a focus on physics, chemistry, earth sciences, environmental science, astronomy, materials science, computing, technology and artificial intelligence, and commission those stories
Maintain broad knowledge of big issues in science, science policy, the scientific community and world current affairs
Identify original ideas for enterprising, analytical stories for Nature on discovery science, science policy and the scientific community
Production experience with Avid
2 – 3 years feature film experience
Experience in Animated Features and/or VFX features a bonus
Oversee the features content for the website
Source featured content and bloggers
Features Editor Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Education for Features Editor
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the features editor job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and University Degree in Journalism, English, Performance, Communications, Science, The College, Communication, Education, Writing, Arts
Skills for Features Editor
Desired skills for features editor include:
Big issues in science
Science policy
Scientific community and world current affairs
First Amendment
Freedom of Information Act and media ethics
Information gathering techniques
Astronomy
Chemistry
Materials science
Physics
Desired experience for features editor includes:
Excellent phone and email manner, to build and maintain relationships with PRs, brands and agents
Ability to learn new technical skills and systems quickly
Advanced compositing skills in Adobe Premiere and Final Cut using Plug-ins
Must have a stable of writers and a knowledge of food, restaurants, and trends
Knowledgeable and comfortable with web tools and processes, including content management systems, HTML, Photoshop, FTP, social media
A great track record in features - digital preferred
Features Editor Examples
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Features Editor Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a features editor. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for features editor
- Collaborate with art and photo for the best visual treatment and packaging, including graphics and sidebars
- Keep the magazine’s standards for award-winning narratives and service journalism high with well-executed, high-impact stories that get attention
- Recruit top new talent into the magazine’s stable of freelance writers
- On occasion may write stories
- On occasion may edit non-feature content, such as department items
- Master the Coastal Living voice
- Commission, edit and oversee feature stories and packages in print and online
- Work collaboratively with staff writers, designers and photo editors – while on deadline
- Manage how print features and packages live in digital, social, and mobile platforms
- Assign articles and slideshows to in-house writers outside freelancers
Qualifications for features editor
- Good contacts with the best writers in Chicago and beyond
- Ability to create, manage, and meet deadlines
- Ability to work well with writers, art staff, and other editors
- Excellent writing and content- and line-editing skills
- Ability to anticipate problems and come up with alternatives if a story is not working
- Decide what articles to write each day/week/month – how to write them, what approach to use, what examples, and conclusions to draw
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of features editor. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for features editor
- Work closely with a team of features writers, editors across all platforms, video producers, designers, sales and marketing and business development
- Drive the daily pitch process, from fielding and curating ideas from a team of writers to brainstorming innovative ways to present content
- Collaborate with other PEOPLE verticals, including the TV, music, and movies teams, to identify follow-ups and other features opportunities
- Analyze site metrics and target high-performing topics and types of content
- Come up with creative solutions to tailor content to advertisers
- Think short-term for daily pieces of content and long-term for brand specials and tentpoles, such as the annual Sexiest Man Alive issue
- We value out-of-box thinkers who can balance taking risks with maintaining our core brand integrity
- Coming up with great ideas for engaging features that AP readers will enjoy
- Writing practical/tutorial articles for both web and print on all aspects and genres of photography
- Conducting interviews with photographers and industry experts
Qualifications for features editor
- Commissioning pro photographers and industry experts to provide high-quality, in-depth content at an intermediate/advanced level
- Taking high-quality photographs to illustrate technique articles
- Shooting/presenting video content explaining techniques
- Proof-reading commissioned articles for accuracy and readability
- Uploading practical content to the website
- Produce and write compelling content across all digital platforms
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of features editor. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for features editor
- Forward planning long-lead agenda-setting features, bigger projects and campaigns
- Planning and development of the journalistic content for Nature, focusing on long-form journalism such as features, but including news and other content
- Edit copy to make it tight, coherent and compelling, working to deadline
- Write compelling headlines, standfirsts, captions and other accompanying text
- Work collegially and effectively with Chief Features Editor, Chief Magazine Editor, writers, art team, copy/sub editors editors in other departments / publications within the company
- Lead special issues or content pacakges on selected themes
- Work with core teams to invent new ways for users to interact with MATLAB code
- Explore ways for users to more effectively present concepts and results using the Live Editor
- Write carefully crafted, well-tested, modular code
- Present and participate in team design reviews
Qualifications for features editor
- Mastery of journalism practice (including reporting, writing, editing for various formats)
- Good interpersnal skills and ease working with staff and freelance colleagues
- University degree in journalism or science, or equivalent relevant experience
- Back up the deputy features editor and stand in as needed
- Edit/rewrite op-eds and prepare them for publication
- Evaluate unsolicited submissions and communicate with the authors
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a features editor. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for features editor
- Report and write an occasional article for the features pages
- Select the daily lineup of opinion stories
- Commission, edit and prepare for publication the op-ed articles and columns
- Review and make timely decisions on op-ed submissions sent to the newspaper
- Maintain relationships with regular contributors and develop relationships with new contributors
- Commission timely op-eds from staff and outside contributors, especially those that advance the principles for which the editorial page stands
- Supervise and mentor the staff of the opinion pages/
- Oversee the administration of the department, including payments to contributors
- Oversee the daily production of the opinion pages, including social media
- Plan, develop, edit and publish outstanding journalistic content for Nature in digital and print media, focusing on in-depth and long-form stories, but including news and other content as necessary
Qualifications for features editor
- Work with sub-editing, art and production teams to ensure timely delivery of content
- Work with multimedia teams to support development of content
- Work collegially, diplomatically and effectively with the Chief Magazine Editor, staff writers, art team, copy/sub editors editors in other departments / publications within the company
- Write compelling headlines, captions and other accompanying text
- Liaise with senior editors including Nature’s Chief Opinion Editor, Chief Careers Editor, leaders of Nature’s research sections and other team members to help joined up planning and content generation across Nature, and response to world-events
- Champion and support digital-first publishing
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a features editor. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for features editor
- Help develop novel ways to present content, particularly on digital platforms
- Work with all necessary tools to edit, post and publish stories
- Work with the social media editor and other colleagues to effectively promote stories
- As necessary, contribute to development, implementation and enforcement of relevant editorial policies and procedures including those around journalistic ethics
- Help liaise with legal team and editors to handle articles with legal sensitivities
- Contribute to broader editorial strategy discussions across the magazine and company, as necessary
- Extensive collaboration with web team colleagues and newsroom managers, reporters and videographers, to conceive and execute our online strategy
- Work collegially, diplomatically and effectively with the Chief Magazine Editor, Chief News & Features Editor, Chief Features Editor, staff writers, art team, copy/sub editors editors in other departments / publications within the company
- Work with and develop a pool of trusted, talented freelancer writers
- Liaise with senior editors including Nature’s Chief Opinion Editor, Chief Careers Editor, leaders of Nature’s research sections and other team members to help joined up planning and content generation across Nature
Qualifications for features editor
- Exceptional writing and editing skills are a must, instinct to tell stories creatively and differently
- Direct and plan content for social channels, naplesnews.com and The Naples Daily News, including features
- At least 5 years of features experience
- At least 3 years of management and editing experience
- Proven comfort managing between digital and print
- An active social media presence