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Company:	Industry Intelligence Inc.
Position:	Online Business Content Rewriter & Editor
Location:	Los Angeles, California
Job Status:	Full-time
Salary:	$45,000 to $50,000
Ad Expires:	December 1, 2009
Job ID:	1114879

Description:
Online Content Rewriter/Editor (FT, $45K-$55K/ yr., DOE)

About the position:

Industry Intelligence Inc., an independent online provider of business-to-business news and data, is looking for an experienced journalist for our editorial team. You will join and support a talented team of writers. On a daily basis you will aggregate content, write headlines, rewrite news articles, post news to the database, and apply appropriate tags and bindings. In this position you will be required to learn and become an expert in all the business verticals we serve.

About the company:

Industry Intelligence Inc currently serves three industries: forest products, real estate, and packaging. Our clients range from C-level executives to department directors to line managers, investment managers, financial analysts, government regulators, and educators.

Everyone at Industry Intel, from the CEO to the newest hire, works shoulder to shoulder toward our goal of taking business intelligence to undiscovered levels. And no matter how much we grow, that won't change. Our vision is to make a revolutionary difference in the business world by changing the way information is managed, delivered and used, thus empowering better decisions. From day one, we will teach you, learn from you, challenge you, seek your input, and ask you to think more innovatively than you ever thought possible. You'll work in your job function, around it, outside it; we need intensely hard-working thinkers, problem solvers and, most of all, believers. This...is something special.

Responsibilities:
• 40% binding and headline-checking (rewrite an appropriate headline encapsulating the most pertinent facts; post to company database, identifying and classifying the information by applying the appropriate tags and bindings)
• 50% rewrites for all editors (rewrite/edit story for copyright compliance)
• 10% searching backup across all verticals (search the Internet and all available media sources for, and aggregate, relevant and related business information (news/data)

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, English, Communications or related field from an accredited university
• 2-4 years’ experience
• Demonstrable business writing experience
• Proven editorial training, with strong attention to facts, figures, and details
• Versatile and adaptable in work assignments and environment
• Team player
• Flexibility; some days may be 70% rewriting, while others may be 70% searching
• Ability to quickly assimilate information about a broad range of industries (open to learning the ins and outs of the forest products, packaging, real estate industries)
• Web/tech savvy (familiar with Mac, PC, Google, e-mail, Instant Messenger, etc.)

Our employees go above and beyond for us. So we go above and beyond for you. That's why besides your typical benefits, like paid time off and medical/dental/life/long-term disability/accidental death and dismemberment insurance, we also offer a matching 401(k) retirement plan; a business-casual dress code; employee discounts on entertainment, dining and gym membership; complimentary snack food; and paid garage parking.

Check us out at www.IndustryIntel.com.

If you’re interested in this position, please email your resume, cover letter and writing samples to T.Routon@industryintel.com. Please respect our application process and DO NOT CALL our office. We also are unable to respond to every applicant, but we do carefully consider every application. Thanks!