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Social Media Producer
Economist Group
New York, NY, United States
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Introduction:
THE ECONOMIST’s social media team is looking for an experienced social media producer to work in the New York bureau.
The social media producer will work with colleagues across the editorial and digital departments to expand the reach of our journalism. To be a successful candidate, you must be an innovative, unstoppable news hound who is excited about the opportunities of social media for a weekly newspaper that was first published more than 150 years before the first tweet. The job also involves supporting the US news editor to publish stories on economist.com. This position reports to the deputy community editor and the US news editor.
The ideal candidate is an experienced reporter who has worked on social media and collaborated with editors, developers and designers to bring stories to life online. You’re on top of industry developments in social media and digital publishing. And you’re energised by the challenge of transposing the sharp, analytical voice of The Economist onto new platforms.
Accountabilities:
In this role you would be expected to:
• Utilize social distribution for The Economist’s journalism
• Take online stories through the editorial process
• Organise teams to produce cross-platform journalism or new formats and products
• Represent the team at external events
Experience, skills and professional attributes:
To succeed in this role you must have:
• 3+ years as a reporter (any beat, any format)
• Experience working on websites and publishing to social media
• An ability to collaborate with correspondents to pitch cross-platform stories to editors
• Strong writing and proofreading skills
• Experience using data collected from analytics tools such as Facebook Insights
• An understanding of social networks, and new emerging trends and platforms
• Experience with Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects are a plus
Application Procedure
Applicants must be eligible to work in America and available to start in March or April 2017. Please send the following to edsocialjob@economist.com by January 29th:
• Cover letter
• Résumé
• A detailed pitch for a story you would expect to see from The Economist, in any format or several formats. This pitch should explain how you would work with designers, developers, picture editors, podcast producers, video producers, editors and correspondents to bring the story to life across our channels and