Health Media Jobs and Opportunities: Create a Superior Digital Experience
This week, a health media site seeks a creative thinker and visionary to elevate its brand and contribute to a definitive editorial voice. Also, take a look at the newest listings for health reporters and editors, as well as freelance opportunities.
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Featured Listing
Managing Editor, EverydayHealth.com (via Ed2010)
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full Time
Medium: Online
"EverydayHealth.com seeks an experienced, outgoing, energetic managing editor to help lead a team of writers/editors/curators focused on news and condition coverage. The managing editor is a key leader of the EverydayHealth.com editorial team and plays a critical role in raising the brand's profile as the No. 1 destination in digital media for trustworthy consumer health news and information, expert advice, patient advocacy, support, inspiration and tools.
The managing editor will report directly to EverydayHealth.com's executive editor for news and conditions and will be responsible for contributing to the editorial vision and direction of the site, assisting in the oversight of the site's coverage of health and medical news, and helping to define the site's editorial voice to create a superior consumer experience.
The successful candidate will be a creative thinker who is solution oriented. He or she must be a seasoned editor and newshound with a love for digging into medical journals and translating the latest medical research into news and features for a consumer audience. This manager must possess superb communication, writing and editing skills; significant experience with online media; excellent people and project management skills; and a strong background in health and wellness topics."
New Job and Internship Listings
Global Reporter, FDANews (via JournalismJobs)
Location: Falls Church, VA
Status: Full Time
Medium: Print, Online
Lead Writer/Project Editor, Children's Hospital Boston
Location: Boston, MA
Status: Full Time
Medium: Other
Health/Medical Reporter, Medical Daily (via JournalismJobs)
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full Time
Medium: Online
Assistant Editor, Healthline (via craigslist)
Location: San Francisco, CA
Status: Full Time
Medium: Online
Topic Leader/Editor: Oral Health, Association of Health Care Journalists
Location: Flexible
Status: Freelance
Medium: Online
Creative Freelance Writer, Omada Health (via craigslist)
Location: San Francisco, CA
Status: Freelance
Medium: Online
Fellowships and Grants
Journalism Fellowship on Poverty, Marguerite Casey Foundation
Eligibility: Open to print, electronic and new media journalists with a minimum of three years of professional experience.
Deadline: Feb. 29, 2012K
From the Website: "The Marguerite Casey Foundation Journalism Fellowship on Poverty aims to increase the public's and policymakers' understanding of poverty through the medium of journalism. Recipients of the 2012 Journalism Fellowship will write at least one in-depth story or a short series illustrating how language, culture and race influence public attitudes and policy about poor people."
Awards
SEJ 2012 Awards for Reporting on the Environment, Society of Environmental Journalists
Eligibility: Reporters who cover health, politics, science, energy, local government or any other beat are encouraged to enter their work on environmental subjects.
Deadline: April 2, 2012
From the Website: "SEJ's 10th annual journalism contest recognized outstanding environmental coverage in six categories, each with cash prizes. This year, SEJ has added a category for Photojournalism. Up to five photographs on one or more environmental topics, published between March 1, 2011 and Feb. 29, 2012."