The opportunity

We're looking for an experienced, engaging, and quality-driven newsletter editor to lead our community-focused daily newsletter in Halifax, The Coast. This is a part-time contract role.

The newsletter editor will plan, write, edit, and publish the most relevant, engaging, and conversational stories that give local residents a daily briefing of what’s going on in Halifax. The must-read local briefing provides readers with information they need to understand their community, their neighbours, and how to connect to both.

In this role you will…

• Oversee production and publishing of the daily newsletter, ensuring that stories are told accurately, engagingly and in our house style

• Plan, write, edit, and publish the copy for each section of the newsletter

• Write, edit, and publish website content as needed

• Stay up to date with the latest newsletter trends—you think in click rates and optimization best practices

• Monitor and optimize performance of the newsletter to meet subscriber, engagement, and growth targets

• Maintain a long- and short-term content calendar to keep track of what’s being published each day, week, month

• Communicate with a team of freelancers who will be writing main stories for the newsletter and what topics will be covered

• Work with approved freelancers to edit their stories and publish them to the website

• Manage the newsletter inbox and respond to emails from readers

• Build trust with our audience through quality work

• Follow journalistic standards and practices as laid out by CAJ

About you

• You have a ton of writing and editing experience with online publications. A little copywriting and marketing experience is a big plus
• You have written a newsletter before, even if it’s just internal or a passion project
• You subscribe to and enjoy reading newsletters, appreciating their audience engagement nuance and tactics
• You know how to write in a way that gets readers past the headline—a sense of humour and irreverence is a definite asset
• You know Halifax and the HRM inside and out and have an understanding of the local arts, culture, business, and media landscape
• You are able to critically analyze, contextualize, and question information and opinions—and know the difference between them
• You have excellent communication and organizational skills
• You know how to use tools like Slack, Beehiiv (or another email platform, such as MailChimp or Substack), and G Suite
• You are able to meet deadlines and handle multiple projects at a time
• You have supported, worked in, or managed a newsroom before
• You boast meticulous attention to detail and can spot the difference between an n-dash and an m-dash (and use it based on the accepted style guide)

Who we are

Overstory Media Group is an independent media company that delivers high-quality, fact-based journalism and storytelling to the communities we serve. At OMG our goal is to empower communities – connected by geography, industry, or interest – with information delivered by the people within them.

We do this by identifying journalists, creators, and existing brands who share in this belief and provide tools, resources, and financial support to help them create in their communities.

We have multiple community brands across Canada under our umbrella. Some of the newsletter-based journalism outlets we’ve built to date include Capital Daily, Vancouver Tech Journal, Georgia Straight, and Fraser Valley Current.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Our mission as a company is to provide an equal opportunity that caters to inclusion and diversity within the workplace and extend our services within the community as a brand. We recognize and value individual differences and are committed to upholding this value to mirror the diversity within our country.