Copy Editor
- Employer
- Trusted Media Brands
- Location
- Milwaukee
- Salary
- Competitive
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- Industry
- Media and Entertainment
- Role
- Editor / Journalist / Freelance Writer
- Job Type
- Long-Term
- Hours
- Full Time
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About Us:
Trusted Media Brands is a portfolio of brands that reaches nearly 60 million people nationwide to inspire their daily quest for knowledge, skills and joy. As a digital platform of scale, we offer best-in-class insights and data-driven marketing solutions that reach engaged communities across food, home, lifestyle and wellness content. See what's new at Taste of Home, Family Handyman, Reader's Digest, The Healthy and Birds and Blooms.
About the role:
Trusted Media Brands is looking for a Copy Editor reporting into the Deputy Editor, Copy Desk. The copy editor is responsible for copy editing and proofreading products produced by the company's editorial teams, including magazines, books, special-interest publications, custom publishing projects and digital articles.
About you:
You are a word person who cares deeply about accuracy, details big and small, typography, grammar, word nuances and our readers. Your perfect day contains a variety of topics, possibly including recipes, DIY, scenery/travel, crafts, birding/farming/gardening info, people stories, and nostalgia. You are able to look past sentence structure and read each story as if a reader at home is seeing it for the first time, and you enjoy collaborating with multiple brand editors to fix nuances and big holes alike.
Your day-day:
* You will edit and proofread copy for magazines, books, special-interest publications, custom publishing projects, advertising and marketing projects, and other work as assigned.
* While using Word and InCopy, you will ensure that all content follows in-house style and is on-brand, accurate, grammatically correct, clearly written, of value to the customer, and in good taste.
* As a Copy Editor you will ensure that content, format, style, and design elements are consistent and correct while checking facts against source material, doing independent research as needed.
* You will work closely with editorial managers to suggest improvements to headlines, deks, ledes, captions, cover lines, graphic elements, and other content while supporting other departments as needed with grammar and style questions.
* Assist copy chief in maintaining and updating house style guides for Editorial Department use.
You have:
* Four-year degree in relevant field of study or equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
* A minimum of two years of professional publishing experience, including previous copy editing and/or editing experience.
* Outstanding writing, spelling, punctuation, language, and grammar skills, as well as extensive knowledge of AP Style and/or the Chicago Manual of Style.
* Excellent eye for detail.
* Organizational skills and ability to prioritize and delegate a heavy workload with conflicting demands, tight turnarounds, frequent process and workflow changes, and challenging deadlines.
* Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to diplomatically resolving conflicts involving workflow, assignments, and conflicts with other teams.
About this team:
Trusted Media Brands' copy editors read and fine-tune many thousands of pages per year in products that bring people together over the love of shared pastimes. Whether the publication celebrates cooking (Taste of Home and popular cookbooks), exploring nature (Birds & Blooms and Country), satisfying a boundless sense of curiosity (Reader's Digest and Reminisce) or even DIY (Family Handyman books), our hardworking copy desk maintains each publication's voice yet preserves high standards of accuracy, language, and style. A supportive, collaborative environment and a variety of pleasant-to-read content make each day different.
Our Benefits:
We value our people and offer a collaborative and engaging culture. As a Trusted Media Brands employee, you will enjoy work/life balance, generous time off and comprehensive benefits and programs. Learn more about what life is like working at Trusted Media Brands at
Trusted Media Brands embraces inclusivity and values our diverse community. We are committed to building a team based on qualifications, merit, and business need. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Trusted Media Brands is a portfolio of brands that reaches nearly 60 million people nationwide to inspire their daily quest for knowledge, skills and joy. As a digital platform of scale, we offer best-in-class insights and data-driven marketing solutions that reach engaged communities across food, home, lifestyle and wellness content. See what's new at Taste of Home, Family Handyman, Reader's Digest, The Healthy and Birds and Blooms.
About the role:
Trusted Media Brands is looking for a Copy Editor reporting into the Deputy Editor, Copy Desk. The copy editor is responsible for copy editing and proofreading products produced by the company's editorial teams, including magazines, books, special-interest publications, custom publishing projects and digital articles.
About you:
You are a word person who cares deeply about accuracy, details big and small, typography, grammar, word nuances and our readers. Your perfect day contains a variety of topics, possibly including recipes, DIY, scenery/travel, crafts, birding/farming/gardening info, people stories, and nostalgia. You are able to look past sentence structure and read each story as if a reader at home is seeing it for the first time, and you enjoy collaborating with multiple brand editors to fix nuances and big holes alike.
Your day-day:
* You will edit and proofread copy for magazines, books, special-interest publications, custom publishing projects, advertising and marketing projects, and other work as assigned.
* While using Word and InCopy, you will ensure that all content follows in-house style and is on-brand, accurate, grammatically correct, clearly written, of value to the customer, and in good taste.
* As a Copy Editor you will ensure that content, format, style, and design elements are consistent and correct while checking facts against source material, doing independent research as needed.
* You will work closely with editorial managers to suggest improvements to headlines, deks, ledes, captions, cover lines, graphic elements, and other content while supporting other departments as needed with grammar and style questions.
* Assist copy chief in maintaining and updating house style guides for Editorial Department use.
You have:
* Four-year degree in relevant field of study or equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
* A minimum of two years of professional publishing experience, including previous copy editing and/or editing experience.
* Outstanding writing, spelling, punctuation, language, and grammar skills, as well as extensive knowledge of AP Style and/or the Chicago Manual of Style.
* Excellent eye for detail.
* Organizational skills and ability to prioritize and delegate a heavy workload with conflicting demands, tight turnarounds, frequent process and workflow changes, and challenging deadlines.
* Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to diplomatically resolving conflicts involving workflow, assignments, and conflicts with other teams.
About this team:
Trusted Media Brands' copy editors read and fine-tune many thousands of pages per year in products that bring people together over the love of shared pastimes. Whether the publication celebrates cooking (Taste of Home and popular cookbooks), exploring nature (Birds & Blooms and Country), satisfying a boundless sense of curiosity (Reader's Digest and Reminisce) or even DIY (Family Handyman books), our hardworking copy desk maintains each publication's voice yet preserves high standards of accuracy, language, and style. A supportive, collaborative environment and a variety of pleasant-to-read content make each day different.
Our Benefits:
We value our people and offer a collaborative and engaging culture. As a Trusted Media Brands employee, you will enjoy work/life balance, generous time off and comprehensive benefits and programs. Learn more about what life is like working at Trusted Media Brands at
Trusted Media Brands embraces inclusivity and values our diverse community. We are committed to building a team based on qualifications, merit, and business need. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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