Freelance Sub Editor for a Sign and Graphics Magazine.

Num. of words: not set
Industry: Publishing/Journalism
Topic: Sub-editor
Tone: Formal/Professional
Outline & Structure: The role is for a sub-editor to work on a 84 page magazine. Approx 50-60% of pages are editorial. There are 7 issues per year.
The business already has a features editor to do write on about 8 of those pages, the remaining editorial will be sent in by customers often via PR agencies that would need editing and cleaning up.

We are open to suggestions, so if you have any skills that we can use, we will always listen.

The role is for someone to take on the responsibility of dealing with all editorial associated with the magazine other than features:
1) Editing and using PR sent in for consideration.
2) Proofing the whole magazine including features.
3) Organising the layout – This would be done in close communication with the advertising manager who would create pdf flatplans in CorelDraw and send to you.
4) Submitting about a third of the editorial to the CMS (website) system.
5) Writing about 2 pages of editorial per issue for our customers.
6) Occasional customer visits, we would reimburse travelling costs.
7) Daily email monitoring and sometimes letting our customers know what we need in order for us to use the editorial – often we need higher resolution images.
8) Updating the contents page to reflect the content in the magazine.
9) Use social media to get the content of the editorial out to readers – This would be done at a later stage and I would pay extra for this.

I would supply you with an incoming VOIP telephone number that can be answered from your smart phone, tablet or pc.

Procedures that we currently implement:
1) Editorial comes in via email and you read through it and decide what to use.
2) Using Dropbox, you put the editorial (containing captions to go with any images) in folders with appropriate (high resolution) images. Once edited you transfer this to another Dropbox folder ready for our graphic designer to pick up.
3) You would use a spreadsheet, giving an idea of the number of words and how much space each article will take up. Then you tell our graphic designer which articles to use on which pages.
4) You let the advertising manager know which pages to allocate to which editorial and he will put it on the flat-plan.
5) Putting it on the CMS system (should take about 6 hours but may take twice as long the first time depending on your knowledge).


We estimate this to take just under 2 days a week on average, but may be closer to 5 days a week near deadline and then virtually nothing for a few weeks after deadline.

Rate: £1200 per issue for 6 issues and 1 special issue every year will be £1600.
Extensive research needed: no
Extra notes: Deadline is the 21st October.