Remote Associate Editor, Outdoors & Gear Culture

Newsletter Jobs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Gear Patrol is seeking a full-time Associate Editor for outdoors coverage, reporting to the Executive Editor and collaborating with social, multimedia, and in-house studio teams. The role emphasizes fast-paced digital journalism, daily publishing, and ambitious long-form projects across news, explainers, guides, and interviews.

You should bring a passion for product journalism, strong grammar, at least one year of experience, and a willingness to travel and work odd hours.

Qualifications

• 1 year of writing and reporting in a fast-paced editorial environment.
• Strong grammar and writing fundamentals.
• Keen interest in outdoors industry.
• Willingness to travel and work odd hours.
• Ability to work with multimedia teams.

Responsibilities

• Pitch and produce original outdoors stories.
• Write and produce pitched and assigned outdoors content.
• Help produce original photography, videos and audio segments as part of a multimedia approach.
• Meet regularly with the editorial team to coordinate content planning and production.
• Peer edit stories produced by other team members.
• Leverage content analytics and other data sources to guide strategy and growth.
• Continually monitor information resources for new story ideas.
• Lead outreach for various editorial efforts, including outside expertise and product requests.
• Collaborate with Gear Patrol Studios on native advertising projects as needed.
• Attend press trips, trade shows, and topic-relevant PR events locally and abroad.

Skills

Editing

News reporting

Storytelling

Social media

Collaboration

Tools

Instagram

Facebook

X

Snapchat

Job description

Gear Patrol is seeking a full-time Associate Editor for outdoors coverage, reporting to the Executive Editor and collaborating with social, multimedia, and in-house studio teams. The role emphasizes fast-paced digital journalism, daily publishing, and ambitious long-form projects across news, explainers, guides, and interviews.

You should bring a passion for product journalism, strong grammar, at least one year of experience, and a willingness to travel and work odd hours.