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Company:	Yahoo!
Position:	Local Editor
Location:	Cleveland, Ohio
Job Status:	Full-time
Salary:	Not Specified
Ad Expires:	December 9, 2009
Job ID:	1119711

Description:
Yahoo! Job ID: 24834

About Yahoo!

Think about impacting 1 out of every 2 people online—in innovative and imaginative ways that are uniquely Yahoo!. We do just that each and every day, and you could too. After all, it's big thinkers like you who will create the next generation of Internet experiences for consumers and advertisers across the globe. Now’s the time to show the world what you've got. Put your ideas to work for over half a billion people.

Yahoo! is looking for an expert online editor to raise the level of our content served to citizens of Cleveland. The ideal candidate will be a seasoned editor with a passion for news, new media, and their local market. He or she will synthesize content from a number of sources and publishers into a relevant, addictive offering for residents of Cleveland. You should be flexible, quick-thinking, energetic, efficient, and able to work independently under pressure while maintaining attention to detail. Real-world experience managing feeds is a must.

In this role, the editor will be responsible for:

- Knowing your local community, including tastes, customs, passions, and sources

- Choosing which stories to highlight, and which to ignore

- Crafting clever and SEO-friendly headlines, writing tease copy, choosing and cropping appropriate images

- Sourcing and managing content from partners

- Incorporating data and audience feedback in programming decisions

- Monitoring blog comments, surfing similar sites for story ideas

- Familiarity with SEO, RSS, Twitter, Facebook and other social media

Qualifications for this role include:

- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in journalism or media

- Minimum 3+ years online and 5+ years overall experience at a major media outlet in your market

- Minimum 1+ year experience syndicating content

- Mastery of RSS, XML and feed management tools/best practices

- Comfort with online publishing tools including more than one at a time

- Basic HTML and Photoshop skills

- A thorough understanding of editorial best practices, and an authoritative grasp of the AP Stylebook and Chicago Manual of Style

Applicants should submit at least three published online writing or packaging samples. All applicants will also undergo a timed writing and editing test.

PLEASE COPY AND PASTE THE FOLLOWING LINK TO APPLY: http://careers.yahoo.com/jdescription.php?oid=24834

Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit http://careers.yahoo.com