Executive Editor Job at Philadelphia Gay News

Found­ed in 1975, The Philadel­phia Gay News is Philadelphia’s largest and old­est pub­li­ca­tion tar­get­ed to the les­bian, gay, bisex­u­al and trans­gen­der com­mu­ni­ty. The Award Win­ning LGBT Week­ly seeks an Expe­ri­enced Edi­tor who will over­see all facets of the week­ly pro­duc­tion of PGN’s print and dig­i­tal pub­li­ca­tions. Philadel­phia ranks among the top 10 LGBT-friend­­ly cities in the Unit­ed States accord­ing to a 2015 study con­duct­ed by Nerd­Wal­let, and is “tied for the high­est score in the Human Rights Cam­paign Munic­i­pal Equal­i­ty Index” for its “nondis­crim­i­na­tion and rela­tion­ship recog­ni­tion poli­cies, LGBT ser­vices and rela­tion­ship with the com­mu­ni­ty.” In the Philadel­phia metro area, near­ly 4% of the pop­u­la­tion iden­ti­fies as LGBT. “In Philadel­phia,” Nerd­Wal­let writes, “the heart of LGBT nightlife is cen­tered in what is nick­named “The Gay­bor­hood,” and the city is home to sev­er­al civ­il rights, advo­ca­cy and LGBT youth orga­ni­za­tions includ­ing the Bread & Ros­es Com­mu­ni­ty Fund, the Spruce Foun­da­tion and the Gay and Les­bian Lati­no AIDS Edu­ca­tion Ini­tia­tive.” The Exec­u­tive Edi­tor Role: He or she will man­age news­room and graphic’s full time staff and free­lancers, con­ceive of and assign sto­ry ideas, work­ing with in-house and free­lance writ­ers on sto­ry devel­op­ment, and man­ag­ing dead­lines. The Exec­u­tive Edi­tor will assist with writ­ing,…

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