News Editor
Salon.com is hiring a News Editor.
The editor will:
- Manage a team of 2 junior news bloggers
- Oversee 24/7 news blog devoted to crucial, topical and breaking stories
- Write, edit original coverage around breaking news
- Successfully identity stories appropriate for Salon.com’s audience.
- Coordinate with other section (Politics, Arts, Life, Food) editors
- Be based in our NYC editorial office
The ideal candidate has:
- A voracious news appetite
- Experience in a fast-paced news environment
- Strong, proven news judgement
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- Thorough understanding of social media sites, and how they work
- Great headline-writing talents
- Strong management skills
- 3+ years experience in online journalism
Apply to: jobs@salon.com
Wordpress Developer: San Francisco
Salon.com a publicly-traded online news and social networking company headquartered in San Francisco, is currently looking for a talented, motivated individual who is passionate about independent news media, to join the technical engineering team.
This person will play a key role in the design and implementation of the content management and blogging systems.
This is a high visibility role within the company that demands excellent communication skills, as well as the demonstrated ability to work in close collaboration with non-technical project managers.
Required Experience:
- 5-7 years hands on experience with object oriented PHP, using memcached and APC in high volume traffic environments (1M+ daily page views).
- 3-5 years hands on experience with WordPress, using the API, developing plugins, developing themes and optimizing for high performance environments.
- 2-3 years hands on experience using a relational database, with demonstrated experience using PLSQL, stored procedures and triggers.
- 2-3 years hands on experience using MySQL 5.1 or later, including experience with replication and fail over scenarios.
- Strong CSS skills. Also highly desirable to have XML and XSLT skills.
- Strong Javascript skills, preferably using Prototype or JQuery.
- A depth of experience using various web methodologies including SOAP, XMLRPC, AJAX
- Experience using Subversion/Trac or similar version control software.
Looking for:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a demonstrated abilities to write technical specifications based on functional specifications, clearly document code, and to communicate technical requirements on a non-technical level.
- Background working on other magazine style on-line media sites, or group blogging sites with shared access controlled CMS.
- Some previous work in at least one of the following: statistical analysis of text, pattern recognition programming, spam filtering technology, natural language processing, contextual or semantic search algorithms, CJK database/programming or automated credit card processing.
- A Software Engineering degree or equivalent work experience.
Relocation and visa sponsorship not available for this position.
Competitive salary, excellent benefits, stock options.
Salon is located on the Embarcadero in downtown San Francisco, this position will be a full time position working at our main office, and reporting directly to the Director of Engineering. Working remotely is not an option for this position.
To apply, send the following to jruga@salon.com, subject line “Wordpress Developer”:
1. Cover letter stating why you’re the perfect person for the job
2. Resume and/or LinkedIn profile address
3. Contact info for three professional references, including at least one previous direct supervisor
4. Salary requirements
5. Availability
Incomplete submissions will not be considered.
Art desk internship: San Francisco
Salon’s art team is looking for interns to work in our San Francisco office. Art desk interns work closely with the art and edit staffs on daily production of the editorial content. The job entails a lot of photo editing, along with some original illustration and photo-composite work. Ideal candidates are students in photography or illustration, with strong Photoshop skills and an excellent eye. Time commitment is negotiable. To apply, send an email to Karen Templer, ktempler@salon.com, stating why you’re interested in working at Salon and what in your skills and background makes you a strong candidate for this position.
Social Media Marketing Intern
Salon.com is looking for an enthusiastic social media maven to help expand its current social marketing activity. Working closely with the Product Marketing team, this position will afford the intern the ability to affect strategy and practice—making this a great resume-building experience. We’re looking for someone who knows the latest tools and trends that attract eyeballs. We want to know where the conversations are, and—most importantly—we want you to help us engage in those conversations.
The ideal person will possess the following skills:
- Expert-level familiarity with Facebook and Twitter (the user interfaces)
- Fast trend-watcher, via many different methods
- Computer literate, particularly with Macs
- Creativity: you know how to get people talking!
- Organizational: you like keeping track of several things at once
Responsiblities may include:
- Regularly updating Facebook fan pages of the various Salon Media Group brands, as well as key contributors
- Regularly updating and monitoring the company Twitter accounts
- Monitoring success, in order to help establish a set of best practices for staff around social media
- Keeping track of the associated metrics: traffic, interactions, etc.
- Keeping abreast of current events, breaking news, trending topics, etc., in order to ensure that the brand becomes part of the conversation
- Liaising with Editorial, Product, and Sales teams, to foster communication around social media subjects
If you believe that this is the right opportunity for you, send an email to rhagen salon com with the title, “Social Media Marketing Intern”, along with your resume, and tell us why!
Product Management Internship: San Francisco
Salon.com is seeking an internship candidate with an avid interest in web development to assist the Product, Design and Engineering teams with daily operations, including specifications for site improvements and bug fixes, testing and QA. Must be extremely detail oriented with good project management skills and have at least working knowledge of HTML and the fundamentals of UI design. This position is based in San Francisco. Time commitment negotiable.
Primary responsibilities:
- Assist with writing and tracking of engineering job tickets
- Conduct routine QA and offer clear feedback to engineers
- Be of general assistance to the Product team
Please send cover letter and resume to Karen Templer, Product Manager, ktempler@salon.com — subject line “Product internship.”
Editorial Internships @ Salon
Interns are an important part of Salon’s daily editorial operations. They work closely with Salon staff to research, report, write and produce our news and culture coverage. They also take part in editorial meetings and otherwise learn about the day-to-day workings of an award-winning online news and entertainment site.
Many Salon interns have gone on to jobs in the media, including Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Elle, CNN and of course Salon.
Salon offers internships throughout the year in our offices in San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C. To apply, please send a cover letter, resume and writing samples to internships@salon.com. Tell us why you want to intern with Salon! Please specify the city and particular internship you’re applying for in the subject line.
News Desk Internship: San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C.
Seeking candidates with prior journalism experience who are news and politics savvy to help us handle the daily flood of breaking news. Time commitment negotiable.
Primary responsibilities:
- Monitor news feeds and produce breaking news packages
- Edit, prep and post content
- Research and fact checking
- Editorial support
- Writing as assigned
- Social media/engagement duties
- Option to develop your own blog on Open Salon
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Culture Desk Internship: New York
The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, have strong writing and research skills, be pop culturally literate and interested in some or all of the subjects covered by the AE, Books and Life departments, such as women’s issues, TV, film, music and books. Time commitment negotiable.
Primary responsibilities:
- Research and fact checking
- Interviews
- Editorial support
- Regular writing opportunities for qualified candidates
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Multimedia Internship: New York
Help us with all elements of video production and post-production. Stay up to date on breaking news and cultural stories with an eye toward “must-see” videos. Must have a basic knowledge of video/audio editing software. Time commitment negotiable.
Primary responsibilities:
- Assist on production and post-production of Salon video
- Edit audio podcasts
- Research and fact checking
- Editorial support
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About Salon
Salon is one of the premier sources for news and culture on the Web or in any medium. Launched in 1995, Salon was a pioneer in online journalism and has been at the forefront of online news, community conversation and information delivery ever since. Salon is an equal opportunity employer.