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Content Editor, Slate Custom
We want an innovative business/tech journalist to lead editorial for Slate Custom, our internal creative agency with a journalistic voice. Slate Custom launched three years ago, well ahead of the herd and before “native” was part of the digital vocabulary. We bring together content strategy, editorial, content creation, design, and video disciplines to create sleek, intelligent programs for advertisers that inform, inspire, and disrupt the way people think about branded content.
The editor will set the tone for all editorial programs, source and oversee freelance writers, and lead editorial production for multiple branded-content projects. These tasks include: conducting research; brainstorming, writing, and editing branded content; as well as developing and managing our editorial network.
This role requires a self-motivated doer with an entrepreneurial spirit, a nimble creative mind, and outstanding writing, editing, and collaborative skills. You will have a close working relationship with project management, design, production, and editorial teams.
What You’ll Do:
Create high-quality branded content in collaboration with other editors, writers, designers, project managers, developers, and other team members
Find the balance between Slate.com’s voice and brand voice in editorial executions
Brainstorm and help write original program concepts in response to brand/agency RFPs
Write and edit primary- and secondary-source reporting and writing for Slate Custom projects
Provide copy for headlines, blurbs, descriptions, and other short-form copy
Source and manage an expanding network of freelance writers, editors, and related contributors
Maintain knowledge of new or evolving finance/business/tech trends and information
Stay up to speed on custom editorial executions at competitive publishers
Gotta-Haves:
B.A., B.S. and/or M.A., M.S. in communications or journalism
3–6 years reporting and/or editing experience in a journalistic role
Copywriting/copyediting experience
Knows how to find the sweet spot between journalism and advertising
Excited by the publisher branded content sphere and up to speed on competitors’ programs
Management experience
Highly proactive, thrives in startup atmosphere
Happily wears more than one hat
Collaborative by nature, values others’ good ideas
Can write/edit in Slate.com style
Nice-to-haves:
Working knowledge and passion for business and/or tech subject areas and trends required, but experience in other verticals is a plus, including: automotive, travel, consumer/luxury goods, entertainment, and/or health care
Experience in digital media workflows and technology
Knowledge of the social media and branded content landscape
The ability to research and assess data to write infographics, visualizations, quizzes, and other interactive experiences
Experience with content metrics and SEO
Please submit a cover letter, résumé, and relevant writing/editing samples.
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Junior Designer, Slate Custom
The junior designer will work with content strategists under the direction of the creative director to bring to life campaign executions for brand clients and pitches.
You must be a team player who has a passion for storytelling on every platform.
What You’ll Do:
Develop client-facing presentations in response to client RFPs
Help concept, design, and develop high-quality branded content in collaboration with other designers, writers, project managers, developers, and other team members
Find the balance between Slate.com’s voice and brand voice in RFP responses as well as campaign execution
Gotta-Haves:
Expert knowledge in Adobe Creative SuiteA strong portfolio reflecting design and deck building experience
Ability to handle multiple projects at once
Attention to detail
Nice-to-Haves:
Background in new business strategy is a plus
Interactive design is a plus
Animation, motion graphics, and Final Cut experience is a plus
Please submit a cover letter, résumé, and relevant portfolio samples.
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Creative Strategist, Slate Custom
We are looking for an innovative creative strategist with a deep understanding of brands, a passion for storytelling, and insights into the future of content for Slate Custom, our internal creative agency with an editorial voice. Slate Custom launched three years ago, well ahead of the herd and before “native” was part of the digital vocabulary. We bring together content strategy, editorial, content creation, design, and video disciplines to create programs for advertisers that disrupt the way people think about branded content.
The creative strategist will help set the tone for all custom programs. He or she will be in charge of aiding in brainstorms for RFPs and executing the final response sent to the client.
This role requires someone excited about branded content that has a willingness to explore various verticals and is ready to push the envelope with innovative, brand-relevant content. Outstanding collaborative skills are a must since you will have a close working relationship with creative, advertising sales and planning, project management, product development, ad ops, and editorial teams.
What You’ll Do:
Manage the RFP response process from a creative standpoint: from organizing creative brainstorms, to writing the response copy, and working with a designer on response decks and mocks
Synthesize and write descriptions based on ideas of others
Find the balance between directly promotional and purely journalistic
Use understanding of brands to create thoughtful, personalized, and relevant content program proposals
Conduct research for proposed content strategies
Stay up to speed on content programs at competitive publishers
Must Haves:
A B.A./B.S. or M.A./M.S. in communications, marketing, advertising, or a related field
2–3 years experience at a creative agency or at a publisher as a content strategist, copywriter, creative strategist, or brand strategist
Strong, witty writer of both long-form proposals and short-form descriptions and headlines
Encourages others’ ideas, the kind of person you want in a brainstorm
Conceptual thinker and research-driven
Can strategize content programs across all media (video, editorial, interactive, events, podcast, etc.)
Deadline- and detail-oriented, incredibly proactive
Thrives in a fast-paced environment
Embraces a startup atmosphere with a willingness to wear multiple hats
Strong teamwork/communication skills
Nice-to-Haves:
Experience strategizing branded content programs (as opposed to commercial campaigns)
Background working for brands in finance, business, and/or tech verticals
Journalistic writing/editing experience
Network of creatives: writers, designers, strategists
Knowledge of publisher branded content space
Please submit a writing sample (a RFP response is preferable) in addition to your résumé and cover letter.
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Head of Slate Custom
Slate is the pioneer in original digital journalism. Our unique editorial strengths of intelligence, wit, and creative use of the medium attract a New Influential audience of 25 million top decision makers and cultural tastemakers. It’s proof positive that we’ve found the right mix of high-quality journalism, cutting edge technology, and deep integration with social media.
We’re a tight-knit group of some of the smartest marketers, communicators, technologists, writers, and thinkers on the planet, and everybody is pulling in the same direction. Combining the best of two worlds, Slate offers the stability and resources that come with being part of the Graham Holdings Company and the flexibility and fast-paced environment of a digital-only property.
We want a strategic and creative mind to lead Slate Custom, our internal creative agency with a journalistic voice. Slate Custom launched three years ago, well ahead of the herd and before “native” was part of the digital vocabulary. We bring together content strategy, content creation, design and video disciplines to create programs for advertisers that change the way they think and disrupt the traditional brands. This role requires an entrepreneurial spirit, a nimble creative thinker and doer, and an outstanding collaborator. Your group will have a close working relationship with advertising sales, planning, product development, ad-ops, and the editorial team. Also includes the opportunity to leverage the same resources as our award-winning editorial team.
Is this you?
Creative and conceptual.
Proven background in content development and content marketing.
Management experience.
Collaborative—bridge sales, edit, marketing, planning, ad-ops, creative, and technology.
Experienced at working across creative disciplines.
You move fast and get things done.
Strong written and verbal communicator with the ability to support sales in external dialog.
Accountable for the department’s performance in terms of client results and satisfaction and the company’s own creative standards such as industry recognition and awards.
Keep an eye on creative, technology, marketing, and design trends and convey them to the staff with a POV.
Capable of strategically and tactically leading each part of the creative process from ideation to execution.
Gotta haves:
5+ years at an agency, in-house, or publisher experience.
An understanding of technology’s role in digital marketing.
A track record of delivering award-winning creative for well-known brands.
Proven experience managing best-in-class talent.
Extensive knowledge of digital culture.
Ability to pivot quickly without losing speed, focus, or quality.
Lead highly focused (and fun) cross-functional department meetings.
Effectively communicate conceptual ideas and detailed design rationale both verbally and visually
Slate welcomes applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Project Coordinator, Slate Custom
Slate is a pioneer in digital journalism. Our unique editorial strengths of intelligence and wit, plus our creative use of the medium, attract a monthly audience of 25 million top decision-makers and cultural tastemakers.
An extension of Slate magazine, Slate Custom is an award-winning creative and editorial agency that partners with blue-chip brands to share meaningful stories through branded content.
We are looking for a project coordinator with a passion and aptitude for production, creativity, organization, and client service. In this position, you will play a key role in ensuring that all projects and campaigns are efficiently executed and embody Slate Custom’s point of view as a creative agency with Slate’s editorial voice.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate closely with project manager and producer to stay abreast of production variables and changes in timing/deliverables from start to finish of each branded content program.
Help create and manage project documentation, including contracts, scopes of work, project plans, client-facing deliverables, client feedback, research, testing results, pre-launch checklists, post-launch cleanup, and postmortems.
Assist with creative resourcing, organizing and processing freelancer paperwork, and day-to-day department operations.
Ask questions, brainstorm creative executions, and communicate with your team to discuss requirements and resourcing for projects.
Assist with process improvement and documentation.
Requirements:
1–3 years work experience, digital agency or publisher preferred
Bachelors degree
Highly organized, deadline-driven, and proactive
Critical thinker that can see the larger goals of a project without losing site of important details
Diplomatic and tactful in dealings with creative teams and freelance talent
Excellent customer service in written and verbal communication
Embraces a startup atmosphere with a willingness to wear multiple hats
Familiarity with digital ad technologies and executions a big plus
Slate welcomes applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Video Editor/Producer
Slate is looking for a high-energy, self-motivated editor/shooter/producer. Must have experience working in fast-paced deadline-driven environments. Our small, flexible team is looking for someone who is: smart, witty, proactive, solution seeking, organized, efficient, creative, thoughtfully communicative, detail-oriented, a team player, hardworking, instinctive, can pivot when news breaks, and takes direction well. The ideal candidate can easily navigate the digital landscape and possesses a nose for viral content. At Slate, every idea is heard. It’s the perfect place for those looking to spread their wings. Entrepreneurial attitudes are recognized, rewarded, and admired—the hungrier you are, the more you will excel.
Technical skills required: master of Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. Canon is your middle name. Experience writing scripts for video. This editor/shooter/producer will be tasked with conceiving, pitching, and creating original video content for Slate that is insightful, off-beat, on-brand, engaging, and shareable.
Please include your résumé and add your cover letter and reel as an attachment. Salary commensurate with experience.
Slate is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to sourcing applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives and all candidates are evaluated solely on their qualifications to perform the work.
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Parenting Writer
Slate is hiring a part-time parenting writer to write multiple times a week on parenting news, trends, and controversies. If there’s an outrageous news story breaking about helicopter parenting run amok, or an irate letter-to-the-PTA burning up everyone’s Facebook feed, or a criminally adorable baby video gone viral, or a required-reading parenting book about to fly off the shelves—you will be there, posting sharp, witty, timely, value-added commentary. But you won’t just have a knack for finding and joining conversations—you’ll also start those conversations, with incisive, provocative original thinking about contemporary parenting.
This is a part-time contract position that can be located anywhere. Interested candidates should send a résumé and a cover letter, with links to some of your best work, explaining why you would like this job and, most importantly, five to six ideas for posts you’d like to write.
Slate welcomes applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Ruby on Rails Developer, Panoply
Since Slate magazine helped pioneer podcasting back in 2005, the technology powering on-demand audio has barely changed
But it’s about to.
In 2015, Slate launched Panoply, which brings millions of listeners the smartest conversations that podcasting has to offer through 50 shows from the New York Times Magazine, Vulture, Huffington Post, Gretchen Rubin, Tablet, Sports Illustrated, and many more.
Panoply is a tight-knit group of some of the smartest engineers, producers, entrepreneurs, and thinkers, and today we’re looking for a brilliant Ruby on Rails developer to help us chart the future of podcasting.
Working at Panoply means flexible office hours, casual dress, full benefits, competitive salaries, an office 20 steps from the metro exit, team happy hours, and working alongside our colleagues at Slate. We have a friendly work environment, but coolness under pressure and comfort with short time horizons are a must.
We're based in Washington, D.C., and New York with an outpost in Sydney. We love locals, but if you're a perfect fit, we'd like to meet you no matter where you live.
The Ideal Candidate Should Have:
Strong experience with Ruby on Rails
A focus on object-oriented design, beautiful, well-tested, and maintainable code
Knowledge of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and JQuery
Good knowledge of relational databases
Experience or familiarity with agile development
An eagerness to communicate, work collaboratively, pair program, and solve complex problems
A passion for innovation, pushing the boundaries, and trying new tools and technologies
The Nuts and Bolts:
We’re all in on micro services, and while the majority run on Rails, we also have services built on node.js and go—all communicating over RabbitMQ.
Slate welcomes applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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West Coast Account Manager, Panoply
With more than a decade of award-winning podcasts and deep knowledge of the medium, Slate built Panoply, the premium podcast network of top publishers, writers and thinkers. We offer our sophisticated listeners the highest quality audio content, and we offer our marketing partners maximum engagement with extraordinary audiences in a brand safe environment.
We are looking for a salesperson to get in on the ground floor of this exciting opportunity. This position will operate within the Slate structure but focus on building out Panoply’s podcast business.
For someone who wants to get in at the very beginning of the rapidly growing audio-on-demand business, operating as if within a startup but with the support of Slate and Graham Holdings Co., this is an exceptional opportunity.
The successful applicant will report to Slate’s West Coast manger and work along side Slate’s exceptional sales and marketing team, supporting and educating them on Slate’s podcasts, our partner podcasts, and the audio-on-demand business. She or he will build upon the current base of advertisers and prospects, by targeting direct response advertisers as well as bringing top brand advertisers into the medium.
Are You This Person?
Ability and desire to work within a close-knit team
Strong strategic and negotiation skills
Two-plus years’ experience working in a media sales role that includes account management, with a consultative sales approach
Ability to help clients develop new integrated marketing opportunities
Appreciation of client’s business needs and resourcefulness in creating solutions to meet their challenges
Outstanding communication skills, including the ability to communicate with a wide range of senior client and agency contacts
Strong interpersonal skills
Detail-oriented and ability to work on own initiative
Desire to work within an environment that balances the successful achievement of commercial goals with a fun professional atmosphere
Experience with digital or audio sales
College degree
This position will be located on the West Coast, either San Francisco or L.A.
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Senior Producer, Slate Podcasts
Slate is looking for a dynamic, creative, and visionary producer to oversee the magazine’s large and popular podcasts, and to create new shows. With 10 years’ experience in podcasting, Slate’s signature podcasts (including the Political, Culture, and Double X gabfests, The Gist with Mike Pesca, Hang Up and Listen, Lexicon Valley, and Mom and Dad Are Fighting) have helped define spoken word on-demand audio, and we’re looking for someone who can shape the network’s next decade.
The senior producer we’re looking for has many skills: She or he has the ears and editorial judgment to make continual improvements to Slate’s current shows, the creativity and imagination to create new shows alongside Slate’s amazing writers and editors, the management ability to direct and inspire staff and freelance producers, and the production chops to step in, roll up her sleeves, and produce some podcasts herself when appropriate. The senior producer will also oversee Slate’s growing number of live podcast shows around the country and, soon, overseas.
The senior producer will work closely with The Slate Group’s larger Panoply network, a newly launched and quickly growing consortium of stellar publishers, authors, and thought leaders. The senior producer will be a key part of one of the largest and most successful networks in podcasting today.
We’re looking for someone with a variety of skills:
Experience producing both topical talk shows and longer, more highly produced narrative work
Proven ability to manage other producers
Grace under pressure
Familiarity with Slate and Panoply’s current shows
And lots of ideas for how to take podcasting to the next level
The position is based in New York and will involve travel to Slate’s Washington, D.C., bureau, as well as to various live shows across the country when needed.
If all this describes you, we look forward to talking with you.
Requirements:
At least five years audio production experience in radio, podcasting, or equivalent
Bachelor’s degree
Strong skills in writing and editing audio copy
Demonstrated ability to manage others in an audio production environment
Slate welcomes candida tes with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Copy Editor/Web Producer
Slate is seeking a full-time copy editor/Web producer to join either our New York or Washington, D.C., offices. Candidates will be quick-thinking and exacting editors with a passion for the English language. The job entails copy-editing content, guiding it through the production process, developing a symbiotic relationship with our publishing system, and having a sense of ownership and responsibility over what appears in the magazine. Experience at an online publication is strongly preferred, but not required. The ability to work fast, independently, and with good humor in a small team environment is a must. This is a full-time position with benefits.
Qualifications:
Experience in online or print publishing
Working knowledge of AP style
A healthy obsession with grammar and usage
A knack for problem-solving and troubleshooting
Familiarity with content management systems a plus
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Front-End Designer/Developer, Panoply
Slate magazine helped pioneer podcasting back in 2005, but in the 10 years since, the technology powering on-demand audio has barely changed.
But it’s about to.
In 2015, Slate launched Panoply, which brings millions of listeners the smartest conversation that podcasting has to offer through 50 shows from the New York Times Magazine, Vulture, Huffington Post, Gretchen Rubin, Tablet, Sports Illustrated, and many more.
Panoply is a tightknit group of some of the smartest engineers, producers, entrepreneurs, and thinkers. We’re looking for a brilliant front-end designer/developer to help us chart the future of podcasting from our offices in Washington, D.C.
Working at Panoply means flexible office hours, casual dress, full benefits, competitive salaries, an office 20 steps from the Metro exit, team happy hours, and working alongside our colleagues at Slate. We have a friendly work environment, but coolness under pressure and comfort with short time horizons are a must.
The Position
We need a user-experience-oriented front-end designer/developer who relishes in the design process—from dashed-out whiteboard concepts to full-fidelity design. We want somebody who can debate the finer points of UI/UX, analyze the DOM, prioritize page performance, and implement designs that work for all screens.
You must have a strong visual eye along with expertise in the standard Web stack and be able to communicate clearly with co-workers and clients.
Responsibilities
Create design guidelines and standards to ensure consistent user experiences across platforms
Collaborate closely with stakeholders and the product team to conceptualize new products and features wherever user needs are not being met
Produce prototypes of varying degrees of fidelity
Shepherd projects from wireframes through full visual design and development
Follow through on designs with clean, performant code
Walk colleagues and stakeholders through design decisions
Continually lift the standard for design across the organization through your work
Troubleshoot and solve problems when testing and publishing new products
Participate in meetings with nontechnical staff regarding user experience
Requirements
Someone who’s hard-working, smart, and nice
Experience with HTML5, CSS3, and modern JavaScript
Experience with considerations needed when building sites for mobile devices
Experience with tools for analyzing and diagnosing Web page performance
Excitement about new technologies and techniques, along with a strong desire to learn and evolve
Experience with git
Bonus Points if You:
Have experience working in stacks such as Ruby on Rails
Have worked with slim and sass
Have designed audio interfaces
Have a love for all things podcast
Can pronounce Panoply properly
About Panoply
Panoply, launched in 2015, is an innovative, full-service podcast network for media brands, authors, personalities, and premier organizations.
Panoply provides production, audience development, sales, and technology services for its expanding number of partners. We’re a fast-moving team aiming to build an industry-leading company led by high-quality content, innovative sales solutions, and industry leading technology.
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Design Director
Slate is seeking a design director to elevate Slate’s visual impact across all platforms. The opening offers a rare opportunity to work with Slate’s world-class editorial, tech, product, and sales teams to lead a smart, innovative, successful company to the next level.
The design director will oversee all editorial design for Slate’s award-winning flagship site, lead product design for Slate’s presentation across platforms, and be the steward of Slate’s visual identity across sales and marketing materials. The brief is to ensure a beautiful, consistent, reader-centric experience wherever users encounter Slate.
Ideal candidates will exhibit an elegant, exacting design sensibility and excitement about exploring the frontiers of digital design. Crisp communication skills and deft managerial ability are musts; we also love excuses to add smart, fun, funny people to our uniquely engaged and inventive team. Candidates must also be comfortable with collaboration and data-driven decision-making: The design director will be leading efforts to improve Slate’s overall reader experience through design, measuring improvements whenever possible. And the design director will work directly with product, editorial, development, and business leads to collaboratively define new products and enhance existing ones.
Responsibilities:
Ensure that the overall look and feel of the site is best in class, appealing both to readers and advertisers.
Manage a team of five.
Lead design reviews with stakeholders around the organization.
Provide responsive designs to developers in a manner that makes implementation as true and frictionless as possible.
Validate designs internally and externally in conjunction with the product team through clickable prototypes and user testing.
Oversee the production of all editorial art for the site, including but not limited to: art to accompany daily news, analysis, and commentary; art to accompany ambitious projects and packages; recurring visual elements; designs used in on-site and social promotions; and more.
Offer legal and aesthetic guidance to Slate bloggers selecting their own art for stories.
Develop design templates for Slate marketing and sales materials.
Oversee the creation of collateral for advertiser pitches.
Manage the art and design budgets.
Qualifications:
This is a senior role. You must have seven years experience, including prior management experience.
Slate is a digital-only magazine, so strong candidates will have a focus on modern digital design, including responsive design.
You must be in NYC or D.C., and you must be comfortable communicating with and managing people who are remote.
Slate is built primarily of words; strong written and oral communication skills are a must.
Nice to Have:
Experience designing mobile apps, including user flows, motion, and animation.
Experience with current UX design tools, such as Sketch.
Some HTML/CSS experience.
Slate welcomes applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Senior Producer, Video
Slate magazine is looking for a senior producer who can help our executive producer run day-to-day video operations. We work in a fast-paced news environment and need creative minds who can think on their feet, pivot as needed, and provide endless ideas for smart, quirky, viral videos. Boundless energy a plus.
Ideal candidates have five-plus years experience managing teams in the digital world, are proficient in Adobe CS, and have extensive experience operating DSLR cameras. We are looking for someone who can give direction, can mentor junior talent, and feels at home creating content with a strong voice in a nonstructured environment. This is a full-time contract position, salary commensurate with experience.
Slate is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to sourcing applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives, and all candidates are evaluated solely on their qualifications to perform the work.
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Video Blogger
Slate is hiring a part-time video blogger to write several times a week on the best new video on the Web. Ideal candidates will be fast, smart writers who tend to be the first to see the videos everyone else will be sharing tomorrow. They must feel as comfortable writing about last night’s cable news as they are about animals, or new movies, or surprising footage from a science journal. They will understand Slate well enough to know a perfect video for our audience when they see it. Candidates should be able to work independently and be judicious communicators.
To apply, please upload a résumé and cover letter that includes a very brief note introducing yourself and a few examples of videos you think should be featured on the site.
Qualifications: Candidates should have some writing experience in online magazines. No video editing experience necessary, but you should know what an MP4 and Brightcove is. This is a contract position, and pay is commensurate with experience.
Slate welcomes applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Freelance Video Editor/Producer
Slate is seeking an energetic, resourceful, hard-working, detail-oriented creative thinker to produce/edit a weekly video series. Responsibilities include: video editing, writing, producing, and shooting. The ideal candidate would have excellent news and editorial judgement, proficiency is FCP or Adobe Premiere (After Effects a plus) and a background in all phases of digital production.
The job is not office-based—our freelancers work from home on their own equipment. This is a part-time position. Day rate is commensurate with experience. Please include a résumé as well as a link to your reel or body of work.
Slate welcomes applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives. To apply for this position, click here.
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EDITORIAL INTERNSHIPS
Slate Plus Editorial Intern
Slate is hiring an editorial intern for Slate Plus, our membership program!
Candidates must be available to work up to 29 hours per week in Slate’s New York office. The position involves writing, editing, and some light audio editing (we'll train you). The ideal candidate is an idea-generating machine who works quickly and independently. To apply, include a résumé, one clip or writing sample, a cover letter that doesn’t put us to sleep, and a 300-word critique of Slate’s membership program. Please upload all of these application materials as one attachment. This is a six-month internship. Deadline to apply is Nov. 15, 2015.
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Slate hires paid interns for the spring, summer, and fall. We offer internships in the following departments: Culture, Politics, Video, The Slatest, and Photo and Art. More information about each internship is below.
The deadline for all summer internships is March 15. The deadline for all fall internships is July 30. The deadline for all spring internships is Nov. 15.
New York Editorial Internship
Candidates for the culture internship must be available to work in Slate’s New York office 30 hours per week. They must be highly organized, have a proven interest in the arts, and be very familiar with Slate. They must also be able to work quickly, efficiently, and without much supervision. Strong writing and editing skills are required. To apply, include a cover letter that clearly outlines your availability and cultural interests as well as a 400-word Brow Beat post about a cultural topic that interests you. Upload your cover letter and the assignment above as one attachment.
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
D.C. Editorial Internship
Candidates for the fall D.C. editorial internship must be available to work in Slate’s Washington, D.C. office 30 hours per week. They must be highly organized, have a proven interest in journalism, and be very familiar with Slate. They must also be able to work quickly, efficiently, and without much supervision. There will be opportunity for writing blog posts and articles. To apply, include a résumé; and a cover letter that includes a 300-word critique of any Slate story from the past year; and three clips or writing samples. At least some of the clips should relate to politics, policy, the law, science, or other Washington-related topics. Upload your cover letter and the assignments above as one attachment.
Slate welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
Slate Video Internship
Candidates for the Slate Video internship must be highly energetic, organized, detail-oriented, responsible, self-starting individuals looking to pursue a career in digital video production. They must be able to work quickly and efficiently and possess keen problem-solving skills. Candidates must be proficient in Adobe Premiere Pro (After Effects a plus) and have experience shooting on DSLRs. The internship is three days a week, and candidates must be available to work in Slate’s New York office.
Slate welcomes applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
The Slatest
Candidates for the Slatest internship must be available to work in Slate’s New York office at least two days per week in the spring and fall, and four full days in the summer. Days and hours are flexible. Candidates must be highly energetic, self-starting individuals who have a nose for news, along with sharp and quick writing skills. Applicants should be tech savvy and have great editorial judgment. Previous reporting experience is a plus, and the ability to write clean, quick, and clear copy is a must. To apply, include a résumé and cover letter with a very brief statement of interest.
Slate welcomes applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
Photo and Art
Candidates for the photo and art internship must be available to work in Slate’s New York office at least two full days per week in the spring and fall, and four full days in the summer. They should be highly organized visual thinkers who are comfortable working efficiently and without much supervision. Interns will gain hands-on experience editing photos, producing slideshows, and selecting art. This is an editing—not shooting—internship; however, there are ample opportunities for motivated interns to work on special projects and publish their work. Apply here; include a cover letter that clearly outlines your availability, and links to visual works online.
Slate welcomes applicants of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.