Health Editor, Conde Nast

Job Description

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Condé Nast is seeking a strong editor with a deep understanding of health to work on advertiser-supported editorial condition and wellness stories across its portfolio of sites. 

You will ideate, assign, and edit a high volume of accessible, genuinely helpful content, ensuring that all commercially driven content meets the same editorial standards as our brand’s organic coverage. You will also perform editorial-adjacent administrative tasks and work on organic editorial content initiatives as needed.  

The right candidate is extremely organized, detail-oriented, and a strong editor with a background in service-based health journalism, who can seamlessly adapt content to each publication’s voice. The ideal candidate also has a thorough understanding of the health and wellness landscape, strong scientific literacy, a deep understanding of health reporting best practices, and feels comfortable working on deeply reported condition-based content as well as wellness stories spanning topics such as cooking, travel, and sports.

This position will report to the VP, Health Content Lead.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Pitch, assign and edit editorial and advertiser-supported wellness and condition-specific stories, while maintaining the highest standards of accuracy

• Write content as needed

• Stay current on emerging health trends, sports news, medical research, and wellness conversations to identify timely content opportunities

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment

• Manage department administrative tasks such as invoicing and creating supplier contracts

• Ensure all content adheres to editorial guidelines, medical accuracy standards and sponsored content requirements

• Additional duties as required 

Desired Skills & Qualifications:

The ideal candidate must have experience editing service-based health journalism and enthusiasm for creating wellness and condition content.

• 6+ years of experience as a digital editor.

• Robust background writing about complex, nuanced health and wellness topics.

• Highly organized and detail-oriented with the ability to follow an ever-evolving content calendar. 

• Must be comfortable overseeing multiple stories at once, all at various stages of the writing process. 

• Experience working across multiple publications simultaneously, adapting pitches, writing, and editing to align with each brand's ethos 

• Experience working with freelance writers, copy editors, and fact checkers.

• Basic knowledge of image sourcing through platforms such as Getty.

• Experience building stories in a CMS.

• Experience and familiarity with SEO best practices. 

• Self-directed work style, but very comfortable collaborating with others.

• Experience working on sponsored or branded health content is a bonus.

• Bachelor's degree in Journalism or a related field

The requested salary range for this position is from $85,000 - $100,000

What happens next?

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply below, and we will review your application as soon as possible. You can update your resume or upload a cover letter at any time by accessing your candidate profile.

Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.