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About the Role
The award-winning team at Cottage Life is looking for a Senior Editor with 7-10 years of experience producing exceptional content for print and digital. This role requires handling substantive edits, developing content ideas, recruiting writers, and managing the editorial process. The ideal candidate will possess strong digital skills, including newsletter strategy and production, proficiency in Mailchimp, WordPress expertise, and an understanding of SEO best practices.
Responsibilities
- Act as the handling editor, championing stories, including profile features, service stories, and front-of-book pieces, through each stage of the editing process from assigning to sign off
- Researching and developing story ideas for print and digital
- Contributing to pitch and strategy meetings
- Copy editing and packaging digital stories using SEO best practices for cottagelife.com
- Writing and curating a weekly newsletter
- Meeting the highest journalistic standards of transparency and accuracy for all content
Requirements
- 7-10+ years of editing experience, including work at a print publication
- Strong writing and editing skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Adobe InCopy on Mac
- The ability to communicate a clear editorial vision while working collaboratively across the editorial and art teams
- A network of contributors and creatives to help shape and develop stories
- A strong passion for Canadian magazines
- Project management experience is an asset
Skills
- Substantive edits on features, columns, and front-of-book stories
- Developing content ideas and editorial packages for print and online
- Recruiting and assigning stories to writers
- Copy editing
- Proofreading
- Newsletter strategy and production
- Mailchimp
- WordPress
- SEO
- Content optimization tools
- Thorough knowledge of publishing trends, including in the digital space
- Digital and newsletter experience
- Working with a CMS (preferably WordPress)
- Microsoft Office
- Adobe InCopy on Mac
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- 7-10 years
Salary/Compensations
- $65,000 - $75,000 per year
About the Company
- Blue Ant Media (TSX: BAMI) is an international streamer, production studio, advertising sales and rights-management business.
- The company operates a diverse portfolio of free streaming and pay TV channels internationally, including Love Nature, Cottage Life, Smithsonian Channel Canada, BBC Earth Canada, HauntTV, Homeful, and Love Pets, as well as the subscription streaming service MagellanTV.
- Its studio business produces and distributes a wide range of premium content across key genres for streaming and broadcast platforms worldwide.
- Blue Ant Media is headquartered in Toronto, with a presence in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Singapore, London, Washington, Sydney, Halifax, and Ottawa.
- Our employees are passionate experts in all of our business areas.
- They are fanatical about creating outstanding content and experiences, and about delivering them on new and evolving platforms.
- We actively seek new employees who embody our core values.
- We want them to think big, act with purpose, celebrate creativity, do the right thing, respect one another, and succeed together.
- We attract creative talents who are optimistic about the evolving future of content and who take pride in recognizing opportunities where others see challenges.
- At Blue Ant Media, we give them the flexibility to think like entrepreneurs, take ownership of their projects, take risks, and embrace innovation in a rapidly evolving media landscape.
- Our team members excel at collaborating with internal and external partners by building trusting, respectful working relationships.
Equal Opportunity
- At Blue Ant Media, we believe promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion is everyone's responsibility.
- We can all contribute.
- As a global media company, we recognize our platform and opportunity to influence change and promote a more inclusive world.
- We know what we create, distribute, and produce is better with a diverse workforce.
- In recruiting for our teams, we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds (who are eligible to work in Canada) and welcome the unique contributions each person brings.
- While we may use digital tools to support the efficiency of our recruitment process, we do not use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to screen, assess or select candidates.
- Applications are personally reviewed by a member of the Talent Acquisition team or one of the hiring leaders, ensuring a fair and human-centered experience for all applicants.
- If you have most of the qualifications listed in our posting, but are not sure whether to proceed with your application, we still encourage you to apply.
- We thank all candidates for their interest in Blue Ant Media and we will reach out to those candidates that are under consideration.
- If you are contacted for an interview and require an accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please email our Human Resources team at hr@blueantmedia.com.