Editorial Intern - Living (Fall 2014)

  • Part-time

Company Description

Refinery29 is the cornerstone of fashion, beauty, and shopping for a new generation. Combining daily local newsletter editions and a website that serves as a global style hub, Refinery29 offers the only 360-degree source for shopping, exclusive deals, trends, beauty news, local hot-spots, and at-home sneak-peeks of fashion's finest. At Refinery29, great style isn't just a one-way obsession—it's a fast-changing world where readers talk, designers, brands, and shop-keepers engage, and great fashion influences everything.

Job Description

Our editorial interns are an invaluable part of the team – helping out with writing, production, photo, research and other sundry tasks. Our current opening is for an intern who will work closely with our lifestyle editors across categories such as food, home, travel, weddings, and tech. 

We’re looking for a detail oriented, conscientious, and positive Intern to help our living team grow. This position is perfect for someone who is extremely organized, loves digital media, dreams in HTML. He or she should also have a passion for lifestyle content and read a variety of home, food, and travel sites. 

 Some things you will learn and do:

  • Build daily posts using our custom CMS (editing/coding copy in HTML)
  • Work with our editors, art/photo department in uploading content
  • Assist with photo research, sizing images, layouts, and art production
  • Administrative duties, as assigned by senior staff
  • Upload shopping credits for shopping stories
  • Some light social media assistance where needed
  • Finding shareable, compelling lifestyle news
  • Possible assistance on photo shoots

Qualifications

  • Strong knowledge of Photoshop and HTML – ability to make and check links, bold and italicize test, and similar basic HTML know-how
  • Ability to quickly and efficiently crop, resize and collage images in Photoshop
  • Strong writing and communications skills
  • Excellent time management skills
  • Meticulous attention to detail