Full Job Description
Verywell Health is looking for a remote content update editor to join our growing team. As an update editor, you will join our Quality Team, a team of remote editors, producers, and fact checkers who work on our sizable library of existing articles to improve the reader experience and ensure the accuracy of all of our content, old and new. Update editors may revise outdated information, polish dull or error-ridden copy, and expand text to ensure articles are detailed and comprehensive.
A successful candidate must provide at least four published clips that clearly demonstrate expertise with health and/or medical content. Consumer-facing editorial experience at a digital publication preferred. Please share as PDFs or links in your cover letter. Successful candidates will be able to pass a short editing test.
As a health website that reaches more than 30 million readers per month, we have the power and responsibility to create positive change. Please read our Anti-Racism Pledge as part of considering your interest in this role.
As part of our commitment, we are focusing our hiring efforts on diversity, equity, and inclusion to build a team that reflects our mission for racial equity in everything we do.
This is a remote position, but applicants must live within the United States and be able to commit at least 20 hours per week (with a maximum weekly commitment of 40 hours).
About Your Contributions:
Review existing articles on a variety of health and medical topics, and revise content in accordance with project instructions
Identify and update outdated material, including noting where visuals or videos are outdated or no longer accurate
Identify opportunities to proactively improve content by restructuring, strengthening sourcing, incorporating visual elements, filling coverage gaps, and more
About You:
At least five years experience writing or editing in the health and medical content space. Specifically, we're looking for experience in researching and covering conditions, disease, and treatment for consumer-friendly, actionable articles.
Comfortable with content management systems
Detail-oriented, deadline-focused, and independent
Bachelor’s degree required
About Us:
Dotdash brands help people find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. We reach over 90 million people each month, more than 35% of the U.S. online population, according to comScore, and are one of the largest content publishers on the Internet. Dotdash brands collectively have won more than 50 industry awards in the last year alone, and are among the fastest-growing in their categories. Our brands include Verywell Health, Verywell Fit, Family, Mind, Investopedia, The Balance, The Spruce Eats, The Spruce Home, Pets, Crafts, Lifewire, Byrdie, MyDomaine, TripSavvy, Brides, Liquor.com, TreeHugger, Mother Nature Network, Simply Recipes, Serious Eats, and ThoughtCo.
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