Description
Plan, coordinate, and edit content for print and digital magazine issues, guiding stories from pitch to publication. Oversee editorial strategy, copy quality, visuals, and production to deliver engaging, accurate issues on deadline and within budget.
- • Plan issue lineups and the editorial calendar aligned with brand voice and audience.
- • Develop story, package, and cover concepts to maximize reader appeal.
- • Assign and commission features, departments, and columns to staff and freelancers.
- • Prepare, rewrite, and edit copy for clarity, tone, and structure.
- • Read proofs to correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, and style.
- • Verify facts, names, dates, and statistics; ensure sourcing and legal compliance.
- • Allocate pages for stories, photos, sidebars, and ads using layout and folio plans.
- • Collaborate with art and photo editors on visuals, layout, and typography.
- • Review and approve layouts, headlines, decks, and captions before production.
- • Oversee production schedules and budgets; ensure issues close on deadline.
- • Manage copy flow from pitch through drafts, edits, approvals, and final proof.
- • Evaluate submissions; make accept, revise, or decline recommendations.
- • Supervise editors, copy editors, and fact-checkers; provide feedback and training.
- • Confer with leadership, marketing, and audience teams on positioning and promotion.
- • Negotiate contracts, fees, and rights with writers, photographers, and illustrators.
- • Arrange rights and permissions for text, images, and reprints.
- • Ensure adherence to editorial policy, brand standards, and style guides.
- • Coordinate digital versions, SEO headlines, and social packaging as needed.
- • Direct or attend cover and feature shoots to align execution with editorial vision.
- • Write the editor’s letter and occasional features or front-of-book items.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
