Editorial Intern
Department: Editorial
Required experience: Internship
Function: Writing/Editing
Company profile: We're Food52, and we've created a groundbreaking and award-winning cooking site. We support, connect, and celebrate home cooks, and give them everything they need in one place.We have a top editorial, business, and engineering team. We're focused on using technology to find new and better ways to connect people around their specific food interests, and to offer them superb, highly curated information about food and cooking. We attract the most talented home cooks and contributors in the country; we also publish well-known professionals like Mario Batali, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Danny Meyer. And we have partnerships with Whole Foods Market and Random House.Food52 has been named the best food website by the James Beard Foundation and IACP, and has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, Pando Daily, TechCrunch, and on the Today Show.We're located in Chelsea, in New York City.
Description: Food52, a fast-growing, James Beard Award-winning online food community and crowd-sourced and curated recipe hub, is currently interviewing full- and part-time unpaid interns to work in a small team of editors, executives, and developers in its New York City headquarters. This will involve plenty of writing and editing, good but not necessarily healthy food, unruly behind-the-scenes website functions, a deepening relationship with your laptop, and coffee. Responsibilities:Working in a small, fast-moving editorial team to produce clever, useful online food content (sometimes on the fly, sometimes days or weeks ahead)Conceiving and writing short original blog posts: recipe roundups and menu plans, technique how-tos, features on goings-on in the greater online food communityProducing and editing repackaged content for partner sites, in their various content management systemsManaging current social media accounts and seeking out new onesHelping out at weekly photo and video shoots including: shopping, food prep, lunch runs, dishes, taste-testing, general morale-buildingCommunity management with a smile: corresponding and trouble-shooting with members via email, responding actively to comments and cooking questions on Food52 and the Food52 HotlineHelping with office admin work, such as filing and mailingWorking with developers to document bugs and suggest improvements to the siteSupporting editorial and executive staffHelping to produce and edit Food52's cookbooks and apps
Requirements: Writing experience (published clips and/or personal blog)Experience with content management systems a major plus (any blogging counts!)Familiar with the Food52 editorial voice and aestheticCooking experience a plus (some combination of culinary school or other professional cooking experience)Loves food, appreciates the importance of home cooking and cooking with the seasonsMeticulous editor, perfectionist, obsessive attention to detail, maddened by typos and broken links, delighted by finding and fixing themCheerful under pressureExcellent communication skillsA+ multi-tasker and juggler of responsibilities big and smallInterested in and engaged with social media like Twitter, Facebook, and PinterestLoves problem-solving and collaborating to drive Food52 forwardThinks big picture but pitches in on the nitty gritty of running a small company (dishes, shopping, administrative support)Comfortable with the realities of working for a startup: being on call on evenings and weekends, and working long hoursHas a good sense of humor (i.e. think we're funny)
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