The Beijinger Needs an Arts and Culture Editor

18 October 2010
The Beijinger Needs an Arts and Culture Editor
Do you spend your weekends haunting 798? Is your DVD collection big enough to stock a small store? Do you devour books and novels at an alarming rate? Are you crazy about classical music, stage and dance? True Run Media is looking for an experienced Arts & Culture editor to write, edit and blog about the city's burgeoning A&C scene.

Job Responsibilities include:

- Writing columns, articles, interviews, blogs and reviews and previews for the beijinger magazine and website.
- Recruiting freelancers and commissioning freelance articles for the section.
- Editing copy.
- Expanding contacts in the city's arts and culture fields by regularly attending exhibitions, book talks, cinema and stage events.
- Assigning photos and doing proofing and corrections.
- Participating in issue planning and debriefs.

Qualifications:

- Native-speaker level English
- Experience with print and/or web journalism, editing copy
- Able to meet deadlines with a highly proactive, organized personality
- Ability to verbally communicate in Chinese
- Wide ranging contacts in the local a&c community
- Experience with pagemaker, photoshop and indesign a plus
- Chinese reading ability a plus

Please send your cv and at least three relevant writing samples to editor@thebeijinger.com.

More information here.
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