Restaurant Editor, Food & Wine
About The Position
Food & Wine’s Restaurant Editor identifies the most compelling stories, personalities, and movements in the world of food and restaurant culture and brings them to life with smart and timely reporting and writing for multiple platforms. The restaurant editor also spearheads and project manages our annual Best New Chef franchise, one of the flagship editorial programs of the brand. This role will pitch—and field pitches—for restaurant news and trends that resonate with our online and social audiences, in our front-of-book magazine sections, and within features, identifying important stories, chefs, recipes, ingredients, and tastemakers. The ideal candidate is an exceptional writer and editor with a good sense of the national restaurant landscape, is fluent in digital publishing, collaborative, thoughtful, deadline-oriented, and organized with a firm grasp of digital and print production processes. The restaurant editor will pitch, write, and edit stories for the magazine and website and must be proactive in prioritizing daily and weekly tasks while working across departments including editorial, photo, design, food, and social media. A passion for food, cooking, and restaurants combined with an understanding of how to create content that connects with readers across platforms and media is a must. Hybrid 3x a week- New York City In-office Expectations: This position is hybrid in-office, with the ability to work remotely for up to 2 days per week.
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree in communications or journalism or equivalent experience in print or digital media production
- 8-10 years food writing and editing experience across print and digital platforms
- Expansive knowledge of the food and restaurant industry in the US and the chefs and tastemakers who help shape it.
Responsibilities
- Ideate, pitch, write, and edit articles about food and restaurant culture.
- Participate in daily standups and monthly pitch meetings.
- Pitch, write, commission, and edit stories for F&W.com and F&W Pro
- Project manage this annual platform with support from the team including nomination process, vetting, commissioning, scouting, writing, and editing.
- Collaborate with edit and events teams for BNC Mentorship Program and launch party.
- Collaborating on editorial projects with stakeholders as needed, including events, social and video.
- Representing Food & Wine at industry events and connecting with chefs and PR representatives on behalf of the brand.
Benefits
- unlimited paid time off (PTO)
- adoption or surrogate assistance
- donation matching
- tuition reimbursement
- basic life insurance
- basic accidental death & dismemberment
- supplemental life insurance
- supplemental accident insurance
- commuter benefits
- short term and long term disability
- health savings and flexible spending accounts
- family care benefits
- a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program
- 10-12 paid holidays annually
- generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents)
- pet insurance
- accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
