Digital Editor

Nashville Public Radio; Dublin (NH); Hybrid; USD 52,000 - 74,000; Full time

Job summary

Yankee Publishing in New Hampshire is seeking an Associate Digital Editor for The Old Farmer's Almanac brand to maintain, improve, and grow Almanac.com’s evergreen content, ensuring it remains accurate, up-to-date, and highly discoverable for readers worldwide.

You’ll evaluate existing content, use data from analytics tools to inform editorial decisions, and continually refine structure, metadata, and internal linking to boost readability and engagement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 2–5 years editing published digital content for a publisher, media company, or other content-focused organization.
• Experience editing digital content created by subject matter experts to improve clarity, organization, accuracy, and overall quality.
• Experience working within a content management system (CMS) in a professional publishing environment.
• Experience using digital publishing, search, and content performance tools to evaluate content and inform editorial decisions.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple projects while maintaining high editorial standards.
• Curiosity, initiative, and a commitment to continually improving existing content.

Responsibilities

• Analyze content performance, reader behavior, and search trends to identify opportunities to improve evergreen content.
• Improve digital content by enhancing organization, clarity, internal linking, metadata, taxonomy, formatting, usability, and overall quality.
• Maintain a large library of evergreen content through ongoing editorial updates, ensuring information remains accurate, current, and useful by resolving issues such as outdated information, broken links, formatting problems, and structural inconsistencies.
• Contribute to larger content improvement initiatives, including site-wide refreshes, reorganizations, and other strategic editorial projects.
• Amplify content by helping develop and manage editorial calendars for newsletters and other digital channels to support the timely promotion of seasonal and evergreen content.

Skills

Editorial judgment

Content strategy

Project management

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Content Management System (CMS)

Google Search Console

Google Analytics

Semrush

Ahrefs

Job description

Yankee Publishing is seeking an Associate Digital Editor for The Old Farmer's Almanac brand. This role helps maintain, improve, optimize, and grow the Almanac's digital content while supporting ongoing improvements across Almanac.com. It is responsible for the ongoing stewardship of the extensive library of evergreen digital content on Almanac.com, ensuring it remains accurate, useful, and discoverable for readers.

Success in this role requires strong editorial judgment, an understanding of reader needs, and an appreciation for how people discover information online. You'll evaluate existing content, use data to inform editorial decisions, and continually improve content so it remains accurate, engaging, discoverable, and valuable over time.

This is an excellent opportunity for a curious, collaborative editor who enjoys making good content even better and wants to build expertise in evergreen content strategy and modern digital publishing.

Core Responsibilities

• Analyze content performance, reader behavior, and search trends to identify opportunities to improve our evergreen content.
• Improve digital content by enhancing organization, clarity, internal linking, metadata, taxonomy, formatting, usability, and overall quality.
• Maintain a large library of evergreen content through ongoing editorial updates, ensuring information remains accurate, current, and useful by resolving issues such as outdated information, broken links, formatting problems, and structural inconsistencies.
• Contribute to larger content improvement initiatives, including site-wide refreshes, reorganizations, and other strategic editorial projects.
• Amplify content by helping develop and manage editorial calendars for newsletters and other digital channels to support the timely promotion of seasonal and evergreen content.

Qualifications Required

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 2–5 years of professional experience editing published digital content for a publisher, media company, or other content-focused organization.
• Demonstrated experience editing digital content created by subject matter experts to improve clarity, organization, accuracy, and overall quality.
• Experience working within a content management system (CMS) in a professional publishing environment.
• Experience using digital publishing, search, and content performance tools (such as Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Semrush, Ahrefs, or similar platforms) to evaluate content and inform editorial decisions.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple projects while maintaining high editorial standards.
• Curiosity, initiative, and a commitment to continually improving existing content.

Qualifications Preferred

• Knowledge of or enthusiasm for gardening and growing, with familiarity in one or more Almanac content areas such as weather, astronomy, food, home, or DIY.
• Interest in evolving search technologies, including AI-powered search experiences, and how editorial content can be optimized for visibility, discoverability, and reader engagement.

Why Yankee Publishing

Recently celebrating our 90th year of telling New England's stories, Yankee Publishing is a proudly independent media company producing trusted print, digital, and television content through beloved and enduring brands such as The Old Farmer's Almanac, Yankee, and New Hampshire Magazine.

Yankee Publishing is 100% employee-owned, offering employees a meaningful stake in the company's success. We provide a generous benefits package, including health and dental insurance, a flexible spending account, paid holidays and vacation, a 401(k) plan with employer match, and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan ESOP.

We foster a collaborative, welcoming, and inclusive workplace culture where individuals are recognized and valued for their contributions. Yankee Publishing believes in diverse representation and strongly encourages people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community to apply.

Locations

This is a hybrid position based in our Dublin, New Hampshire office. Regular time in the office gives team members the opportunity to collaborate closely, learn the unique voice, values, and editorial standards of The Old Farmer's Almanac, and contribute ideas that strengthen our digital content.