StopPress seeks new ed

AUCKLAND, Today: Marketing news site StopPress is looking for a fulltime editor. Currently, the title is run by Tangible Media’s NZ Marketing quarterly A4 magazine, and appears not to have a permanent editor.

And Tangible has hired Auckland marketing recruiters ICG (scroll down for the link) to conduct the search.

The Marketing NZ website gives few clues about the editorial team, but the buck probably stops with longtime Tangible editorial executive Graham Medcalf, and his wife Vernene, who handles Tangible ad sales.

StopPress issues its emails twice weekly. This morning’s lead story (complete with misplaced apostrophes and other minor grammatical errors) reads in its laborious entirety …

Hey, who wants to run StopPress?
StopPress is a fantastic beast. A true voyager in the seas of the marcomms industry. But now, this ship needs a new captain.

That’s right folks, our current editor is off, and to replace her we need a candidate with minimum 40+years experience, 3 PHD’s, who is also a telepathic millionaire and can read the minds of clients.

But in reality; We’re casting our net to find a new Senior Digital Content Producer to champion the editorial vision and team. The role requires exceptional writing ability; the ability to make sound editorial decisions; confidence to engage with marcomms industry leaders; attention to detail; and commercial thinking to optimise revenue performance.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the experience and aptitude to deliver so most likely you will have had at least 3-5 years experience crafting quality content that is proven to deliver both engagement and commercial success.  

“Whew! You need a sense of humour just to get through this stuff.”

Accountabilities or responsibilities:

• Source and write newsworthy stories daily, and ensure they are in a clean state ready for publishing online.
• Build relationships with industry representatives: This includes regular face-to-face meetings with the aim of sourcing and producing exclusive interviews and content.
• Take responsibility of the generation of ideas from your own research to create original and engaging stories.
• Formatting of content using the StopPress CMS, producing weekly newsletters and posting content to social media pages.
• Work within a team to construct a cohesive editorial plan for each quarter.
• Create commercial content in support of the Advertising/Commercial Manager including copy writing, sourcing photography and liaising with clients for approval.
• Sub-editing of all content or commissioning where applicable.
• Assist with content creation, curation and production across sister titles/platforms.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience:

• Formal journalistic qualification or journalism experience.
• Strong writing and editing skills.
• Proven track record in creating commercially sound projects.
• Digital and social media experience.
• Open to collaboration and teamwork.
• Knowledge of and love for the marcomms industry will be a big plus.

Personal Attributes:

• Most importantly, a keen interest in current affairs and the happenings of the advertising, media and marketing industry.
• Hard working and deadline focused.
• Able to turn copy around quickly and cleanly.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Commercial thinker with good customer service skills.
• Interested in and committed to the concept of “commercial content” and how that drives both audience engagement and commercial outcomes.
• Strong communicator.
• Sense of humour.

Send written applications to: david.nothling@icg.co.nz

Whew! You need a sense of humour just to get through this stuff.

• stoppress.co.nz/news/hey-who-wants-to-run-stoppress
• www.icg.co.nz