Description

Position at WebMD

About the Company

Headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., Internet Brands® is a fully integrated online media and software services organization focused on four high-value vertical categories: Health, Automotive, Legal, and Home/Travel. The company's award-winning consumer websites lead their categories and serve more than 250 million monthly visitors, while a full range of web presence offerings has established deep, long-term relationships with SMB and enterprise clients. Internet Brands' powerful, proprietary operating platform provides the flexibility and scalability to fuel the company's continued growth. Internet Brands is a portfolio company of KKR and Temasek.

WebMD Health Corp., an Internet Brands Company, is the leading provider of health information services, serving patients, physicians, health care professionals, employers, and health plans through our public and private online portals, mobile platforms, and health-focused publications. The WebMD Health Network includes WebMD Health, Medscape, Jobson Healthcare Information, prIME Oncology, MediQuality, Frontline, QxMD, Vitals Consumer Services, MedicineNet, eMedicineHealth, RxList, OnHealth, Medscape Education, and other owned WebMD sites. WebMD®, Medscape®, CME Circle®, Medpulse®, eMedicine®, MedicineNet®, theheart.org ®, and RxList® are among the trademarks of WebMD Health Corp. or its subsidiaries.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

For Company details, visit our website: www.webmd.com / www.internetbrands.com

Education

Master’s degree in Life sciences, Pharmacy, Journalism, English, or a related field, or equivalent experience

Experience

2 + years

Work Mode: Work from Office

POSITION SUMMARY

Medscape is seeking an experienced medical journalist to edit medical news for multiple specialty audiences. Reporting to an Executive Editor in a specific specialty, you will review specialty-specific journals and help identify potential studies for news coverage, edit news and feature articles, and network to build a solid roster of expert contacts/sources in a specific specialty and its various sub-specialties.

The person in this position must demonstrate a high level of editing skills and a sophisticated understanding of medicine and health reporting. Tasks include identifying information and events that warrant coverage; assigning and editing articles; working with freelance and staff writers; collaborating with other editors on the specialty team and on the larger editorial team as needed.

The ideal candidate must be able to multitask, as well as work both independently (under minimal supervision) and collaborate in a team environment. The candidate must have experience in publishing and superb written and communication skills. The ability to work well under pressure and prioritize in a deadline-driven environment is essential.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Assigning and editing high-quality, engaging, and medically-accurate content, particularly in the areas of Nursing Profession.

Edit articles to verify accuracy, rewriting as needed as well as evaluating and integrating perspectives from editorial reviewers

Managing the editorial workflow from start to finish

Work with freelancers as needed

Managing multiple projects while meeting tight deadlines

Analyze traffic metrics and audience engagement as part of strategic editorial planning

Providing new approaches for sometimes dry or difficult content for professional and consumer audiences

Collaborating on strategic content with other departments, e.g. SEO Team, Medical Reviewers, Photo Editors, Content Editors, and Strategists as needed

Review key specialty journals and medical news outlets

Monitor competing information sources

Edit relevant daily content for web

Collaborate with web editors, graphics, art to enhance online content with value-added information such as graphics, photos, video, audio, original source documents, etc.

Approve articles and subject lines for newsletters

Collaborate on social media initiatives developed for specialty

REQUIREMENTS

Three to five years editing, including experience with an online Health, Wellness, News and/or Lifestyle brand

Well versed with biostatistics

Acumen to deliver consistently high-quality editorial in multiple formats to capture and maintain the interest of physicians and reflect a high standard of literacy and accuracy

Editing of individual stories to verify accuracy and reflect good news judgment in a fast paced news environment

Good organizational ability, good verbal communication skills, attention to detail and the capacity to work effectively under pressure

Experience creating interactive content and working in a CMS

Ability to work both independently with minimal supervision and collaboratively as various projects require