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About the Role

We are seeking Volunteer Editors and Copy Editors to refine Rock & Art’s editorial content. Editing involves strengthening arguments, improving clarity, ensuring coherence, and maintaining accuracy and readability.

Responsibilities

• Review submitted and commissioned articles.
• Evaluate structure, argument, narrative logic and editorial coherence.
• Identify areas requiring additional research or context.
• Question assumptions, generalisations and unsupported claims.
• Help writers distinguish evidence from interpretation or opinion.
• Assess whether an article delivers meaningful value to the reader.
• Suggest structural changes where necessary.
• Work collaboratively with writers through revisions.
• Copy-edit for grammar, syntax, spelling, punctuation and readability.
• Ensure consistency in terminology, tone and editorial conventions.
• Proofread final drafts before publication.
• Identify potential issues that should be escalated for fact-checking or legal/risk review.
• Apply relevant Rock & Art Editorial System (RAES) standards and workflows.
• Help ensure that individual articles contribute coherently to Rock & Art’s wider body of knowledge.

Requirements

• Editors who understand that editing is both a technical discipline and an intellectual practice.
• An experienced editor or copy editor.
• A journalist with strong editorial experience.
• An academic or researcher with experience working with complex texts.
• A professional writer with strong editing skills.
• A student or graduate in journalism, literature, languages, humanities, communications or a related field.
• An experienced independent editor building a portfolio.
• A subject specialist who has developed strong editorial skills within a particular cultural field.
• Professional editorial experience is welcome but not mandatory.
• Ability to work carefully with someone else’s ideas without imposing your own unnecessarily.
• Excellent written English.
• Strong command of grammar, syntax and editorial conventions.
• Excellent reading comprehension.
• Structural and analytical thinking.
• Attention to detail.
• Sensitivity to voice and authorial intent.
• Ability to distinguish an editorial problem from a difference of opinion.
• Intellectual honesty.
• Respect for evidence and attribution.
• Constructive communication.
• Willingness to explain editorial decisions.
• Openness to working within a shared editorial framework.
• Experience with long-form journalism, cultural criticism, essays, academic writing, research or independent publishing is particularly valuable.
• Belief that good editing does not flatten ideas—it gives them room to become clearer, stronger and more meaningful.

Skills

• Editing
• Copy editing
• Substantive editing
• Developmental editing
• Cultural editing
• Proofreading
• Written communication
• Grammar
• Syntax
• Editorial conventions
• Reading comprehension
• Analytical thinking
• Attention to detail
• Sensitivity to voice
• Authorial intent
• Intellectual honesty
• Respect for evidence
• Attribution
• Constructive communication
• Long-form journalism
• Cultural criticism
• Essays
• Academic writing
• Research
• Independent publishing

Location

• Remote — worldwide

Work Type

• Volunteer
• Remote

Experience Level

• Emerging editors
• Experienced editors

Education Level

• Student or graduate in journalism, literature, languages, humanities, communications or a related field

Salary/Compensations

• Unpaid / no financial compensation

Benefits

• Defined editorial role and workflow
• Access to Rock & Art’s editorial standards and frameworks
• Collaboration with writers and researchers
• Editorial discussions around complex cultural subjects
• Constructive feedback and opportunities to develop your own editorial practice
• Attribution where appropriate for editorial contributions
• Opportunity to build experience within an independent cultural journalism project
• Possibility of taking on broader editorial responsibilities as the project develops

About the Company

• Rock & Art is an independent cultural journalism and knowledge platform exploring art, music, literature, identity, bodies, sexuality, politics and subcultures through critical, intersectional perspectives.
• We practice slow journalism: research-driven, long-form and contextual work that seeks to understand culture rather than simply report on it.
• Rock & Art is built around the belief that journalism can be a method of producing public knowledge.
• Our work connects cultural criticism, research, documentation and collective knowledge-building, creating an independent and lasting resource for readers, researchers and communities.
• Our editorial practice is guided by intellectual curiosity, evidence, context, editorial independence, and a commitment to complexity and responsible representation.
• We are currently building an international volunteer community of writers, researchers, editors, fact-checkers, knowledge curators and cultural contributors who want to help develop Rock & Art as a long-term cultural knowledge project.