Role title: Deputy Editor, Arts and Culture
Reports to: Editor, Arts and Culture
Other Key Relationships Editor, COS, Deputy COS
Salary: $85,000 pro rata
Hours: 2-3 days per week
About The Conversation
With headquarters in Melbourne, The Conversation Australia and New Zealand is the world's leading digital publisher of research-based news and analysis. Our model is a unique collaboration between academics and journalists. We produce easy-to-read articles based on proven expertise. It's our mission to spread knowledge and inform decisions.
The Role
The Deputy Editor, Arts and Culture is responsible for working with academics to review significant arts exhibitions and performances, TV and film, and analyse arts policy, as well as trends, online culture, history, youth culture and social media. The Deputy Editor, Arts and Culture, will predominantly commission, edit and publish text-based articles, with a focus on The Conversation's reviews coverage across artforms, including screen, visual art and live performance.
The Deputy Editor, Arts and Culture, will need to be a voracious reader and consumer of arts and culture who is well informed about developments in their field and passionate about developing new ideas.
The Conversation is a trusted journalism brand. Deputy editors need to protect its hard won credibility. They must be thoughtful, calm, methodical, rigorous and possess a deep commitment to professional impartiality and high ethical standards.
Key responsibilities include:
* Responsibility 1 – Keep track of the arts calendar and commission reviews of new theatre, dance, visual art, film and television shows
* Responsibility 2 – Commission and edit articles on arts and culture, reporting to the Arts and Culture Editor
* Responsibility 3 – Develop story ideas based on developments, trends and happenings in arts and culture, and respond to pitches from arts and culture academics
* Responsibility 4 – Promote editorial content on social media and other channels
* Responsibility 5 – Attend events and represent The Conversation with university partners
Essential experience
* Journalism experience
* Experience particularly in the arts and culture round
Essential qualities
* Highly developed written and verbal communication skills
* Knowledge of the arts and culture round and commitment to following trends and events within these communities
* Ability to develop interesting and relatable story ideas
* Diplomacy and the ability to create and manage positive relationships
* Courteous, kind and respectful
* Highly developed research and analytical skills
* Polished presentation
* Care and attention to detail
* Friendly and collegiate, in line with our newsroom culture
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