Associate Editor, Digital

Glacier FarmMedia Limited; Canada; Remote; CAD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Glacier FarmMedia Limited in Canada seeks a full-time Associate Editor, Digital to lead online content across web, video, audio and social channels. You will join an integrated newsroom and report to the Senior Editor, News and Markets, focusing on engaging farmers and rural Canadians.

Responsibilities include optimizing content for online audiences, SEO, collaborating across publications, ensuring CP style, and mentoring in digital storytelling.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary degree, diploma or training in journalism with relevant experience.
• Commitment to fairness, accuracy and balance in content creation.
• Extremely organized with strong attention to detail and deadlines.
• Experience with digital tools for web publishing and social media management.
• Proficient with analytics or content measurement software.

Responsibilities

• Optimizing content for online audiences and posting to Glacier FarmMedia's national network.
• Contributing knowledge to optimize digital content for audience engagement and SEO.
• Monitoring audience uptake, analyzing content performance, and adjusting tags/headlines.
• Ensuring compliance with content posting best practices.
• Collaborating with editorial team on digital direction and engagement practices.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Extremely organized

Meeting deadlines

Cross-functional collaboration

Content optimization

Digital storytelling

SEO/content optimization

Education

Journalism degree/diploma/training

Tools

Google Analytics

Content Management Systems

Job description

Glacier FarmMedia ("GFM") is a dynamic company in the Canadian agriculture industry that connects with farmers through a variety of regional and specialty media franchises, a listings marketplace for the sale of farm equipment, leading industry events like Ag in Motion and Canada's Outdoor Farm Show and customized offerings for Weather and Market analysis and insights.

With award winning journalism publications that serve the content needs of farmers and rural Canadians in 6 provinces ( Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Northern BC) , we offer a chance to be a remote journalist , based at home, working with an integrated newsroom of colleagues, in a professional environment committed to reporting the news and uncovering why it matters to our audience.

We are seeking a full‑time AssociateEditor,Digital who is committed to connecting with our farm audience and engaging with them through content on all media channels (web, video, audio and social). This positionis hiring for a new journalist to join our teamfor our growing digital needs, working alongside others who perform this function on an established team.

This role will report to the Senior Editor, News and Markets. Although this role will be largely digital focused, our newsroom plans content on a holistic basis, considering print, in person and video coverage opportunities. With a commitment to career growth through on‑the‑job development and formal training, the successful candidate will have exposure to modern content management systems, support for copy editing training, coaching and mentoring from journalists and the opportunity to perform reporting and editing functions to support meeting deadlines and serving the audience.

Specific job duties include:

Optimizing content for online audiences and posting it to GlacierFarmMedia'snational network of online agricultural news brands. This can include scheduled material, evergreencontentand breaking news at the national and provincial level.

Contributingtothe editorial team’s knowledge, use and optimizationof digital content for audience engagement and SEOpublishing, helping toposition GFM’s network of publications as content leader for farming and agriculture news in Canada, working with content from across newspapers, magazines and featured editorial content across all mediums to meet the needs of our audience.

Monitoringcontent uptake byour audience, analyzing content performance, andmodifyingdigital content descriptions, tagging, headlines tooptimizethe ability for readers to connect with our content online.

Ensurescompliance with content posting best practices.

Works collaboratively with members of theeditorialteam on technical direction and best practices for digital content optimization and digital audience engagement practices.

The GFM editorial team iscontinuously looking for new opportunities to support farmers' needs for Canadian editorial content usingnew technologieswhilemaintainingour commitment to quality journalism.Along with colleagues, this would be aparticipatory role in the innovation process, helping to brainstorming new ways to creatively tell storiestooptimizeaudience engagement with our content.The curiosity to stay up to date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies to ensure our digital channels arecutting-edgeand relevantis an important characteristic for the successful candidate.

Qualifications

Post-secondary degree,diplomaor training in journalism with a significant amount of relevant experienceanddemonstratedcommitment to publish high-quality journalism content.

A commitment to fairness, accuracy and balance in content creation while alsoexhibitinga strong commitment to clean copyin accordance withCanadian Press Style guidelines.

Extremely organized, witha keenattention to detail, anda track recordof meeting deadlines.

Experience with digital tools for web publishing, social media management, Googleanalyticsor any content measurement software solutions are all assets.

Excellent communication skills with a desire to foster collaboration among cross-functional teams

We have no closing date for this position.

About Us

Glacier FarmMedia is a dynamic company with media franchises, a listings marketplace for the sale of farm equipment, leading events like Ag in Motion and Canada's Outdoor Farm Show and customized offerings for Weather and Market analysis and insights.

Our team of employees consists of many different jobs, working in many different provinces. Our focus is working collaboratively, regardless of title, team or location. We have roles in journalism, sales, technology, operations and finance -