Content Editor - Music Technology, MusicRadar.com
Future PLC, United Kingdom
Job Description
About the Team
MusicRadar is the world’s leading website for musicians, producers and DJs. We’re a website built by musicians for musicians - our audience is passionate about making music, and the people who make the music they love. They value the access and insight we give them into their heroes' creative processes, and musicians love talking to us and our knowledgeable audience about the detail of their craft. We also connect with our readers by helping them to find the right gear, and providing tuition to help them get better at what they really live for, which is making music.
Future’s family of music technology brands includes some of the oldest, best-known and most established titles in the sector, including UK print magazines Future Music and Computer Music, US print title Electronic Musician. We speak to a broad church of electronic music-makers, including dance music producers, recording engineers, keys players, modular synthesists and DJs. Through online articles, print features and video we bring our readers the latest news, comprehensive gear reviews, a broad range of music-making tutorials and behind-the-scenes interviews with some of the most exciting names in modern music.
Job Purpose
As Content Editor you will be responsible for developing, commissioning and creating content across MusicRadar and Future’s music technology brands. You will work closely with the MusicRadar and magazine teams to create features that engage electronic music-makers both online and in print, including production tutorials, artist interviews, gear guides and news features. Your main focus will be to strengthen the links between our print titles and MusicRadar, creating new features to work across both formats, making sure existing print content reaches as wide an audience as possible online, and ensuring that our online strategy helps to support our print titles and vice versa.
Key responsibilities
- Plan, commission, produce and publish expert music technology features to deadlines
- Adapt existing print content for online and publish it through MusicRadar’s CMS
- Edit and fact-check submitted copy
- Manage and develop a pool of freelancer contributors
- Contribute to cross-brand video output
- Contribute to social media channels across all music technology brands
- Develop and maintain productive industry, PR and commercial relationships
- Attend industry events when required, including some international travel
Requirements
- Fantastic writing and editing skills for online and print
- A passion for electronic music making and music technology
- Proven experience in editorial commissioning
- Strong communication skills, including excellent spelling and grammar
- Ability to work on own initiative and under pressure, to deadline
- Excellent time-management skills
- Experience in proof-reading and editing editorial copy
- Experience of working with Content Management Systems
- Experience of working with inDesign is desirable
- Experience of presenting or producing video is desirable
Benefits
As well as our standard benefits, we have a number of perks available to our staff including:
- Unlimited annual leave (yes, you read that right!)
- A share in our success - every member of staff receives a profit pool bonus at the end of our financial year
- Free digital magazine subscriptions and access to back copies of our print magazines and bookazines
- Discounted gym membership and onsite health amp; wellbeing
- Regular staff socials arranged by our wonderful Employee Community amp; Culture committees
- Huge opportunities to learn and develop whether through professional qualifications, exposure to incredible business projects or informal lunch amp; learns, hosted by your colleagues
- Give something back - Future will match your personal charity fundraising efforts up to 300