Rizzoli International Publications
Type: Full Time
Position: Assistant Editor
Location: New York, NY
Rizzoli International Publications is looking for an organized, detail-oriented assistant editor to handle editorial duties related to books that we produce in conjunction with foreign publishers.
Co-edition responsibilities:
- Work with editors, production managers, and foreign publishers to set, maintain, and update book publication schedules
- Act as a liaison between editors and foreign publishers to traffic text for translation and InDesign files for typesetting, and handle any other editorial issues
- Act as a liaison between production managers and foreign publishers to traffic final mechanical files, route blues and color proofs for approvals, and troubleshoot any production issues
- Provide production managers with shipping and packing instructions from foreign publishers
- Assist with Rizzoli’s French program, including providing sales materials, establishing on sale dates, and preparing purchase orders
- Prepare presentations and marketing content for international book fairs
- Provide presentation materials for submission to foreign publishers
- Coordinate sending of hi-res files to foreign licensees
Buy-in responsibilities:
- Work with originating publishers to set, maintain, and update book publication schedules
- Review cover and layout designs with the publisher, and communicate feedback to originating publishers
- Coordinate copyediting, typesetting (if applicable), and proofreading for books
- Review blues and proofs for books
- Coordinate any updates for books in reprint
- Prepare purchase orders and shipping instructions, including coordinating drop shipments with the international sales department
- Provide sales and publicity with any requested materials, such as art and text for sales catalogue, digital book excerpts, press images, etc.
- Traffic, print, and review submissions
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Bonnier Corporation – Popular Science
Popular Science seeks an enterprising assistant editor to join its web team in a quest for world domination.
The ideal candidate will have 2-3 years of experience writing, editing and producing content for science and technology news sites. Smart story ideas, great voice, high productivity, excellent teamwork, and a passion for online journalism are musts.
They are also looking for someone with command of a beat that speaks to the Popular Science brand, such as space (private/human spaceflight, planetary science, astrophysics), consumer technology, (gadgets, cars, internet security/privacy), energy (generation, storage, distribution), robots/artificial intelligence, military/defense, and/or other topics that appeal to our audience.
Responsibilities include:
- writing and editing daily news, explainers, feature stories, and other formats
- online content production
- helping manage our social media presence
- other duties as needed or assigned
Qualifications/Skills (A knack for any of the following will help get our attention):
- pulling together authoritative multimedia web features
- appearing on-camera/hosting videos
- running social media accounts with large followings
View the original job posting here.