Job description

To write original material and, when necessary, promotional copy, ensuring that it is:

• Factually accurate, well-researched, correctly referenced and grammatically correct
• Fresh, lively, reader-friendly, and cliché free
• Written in Cosmo style and tone
• Reflective of the brand’s audience

Other duties:

• Write copy for all platforms including print, website and/or mobi-site, and social media platforms.
• Source and write items for certain set print and digital sections, as allocated by the editor and online editor, each month.
• When required, write fashion and beauty copy that is fresh, factual, and on brand.
• Research stories thoroughly and ensures that the best possible sources/professionals are interviewed.
• Make sure all articles are submitted on or before the allocated deadline.
• Assist in sourcing relevant, on-brand images for features and articles and crediting these correctly.
• Produce shoots related to features and/or stories, where relevant.
• Participate constructively at monthly features meetings by sourcing and contributing story ideas.
• Keep abreast of both local and international news that is of interest to the Cosmo audience.
• Formulate strong relationships with professionals in different fields (sources), to build up a solid list of contacts and, occasionally, to represent the brand at functions or speak on its behalf.
• Have an interest in millennial trends, websites, digital apps, fashion, beauty, music, socialising, and to be able to write reviews.
• Help editors needing to localise or expand copy from other sources by doing the additional research necessary.
• Be sufficiently in tune with the local scene to be able to identify the people and places that should be featured weekly, monthly and/or for special events and campaigns.
• Travel occasionally, when a story or event requires it.

Requirements

Features-writing experience (magazine or online) for a similarly high-profile title and a relevant diploma/degree in journalism/media studies (or similar).

The features writer needs to:

• Be honest and accurate when reporting. Submitted copy should be thoroughly fact checked
• Have good interviewing skills
• Have good writing style
• Think creatively
• Be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Be able to work with a team
• Have good general knowledge, and be able to write copy on a wide variety of topics from fashion and beauty to finance and psychology
• Be comfortable researching and writing features on sex
• Have strong knowledge, interest, and experience in social media
• Be resourceful, able to use the Internet for research, and judge, which sites are authoritative and which are not, for example
• Be keen to learn and be flexible, with a willingness to adapt, cut or expand copy if that becomes necessary
• Have a valid drivers licence
• Be a good team worker who can handle deadlines and work effectively under pressure

Posted on 25 May 16:18