Fly Fishing Magazine Editor- Augusta, GA

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Company: Morris Communications
Position:
Fly Fishing Magazine Editor
Location:
Augusta, Georgia
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: Negotiable
Ad Expires:
May 15, 2014
Job ID: 1579167
Website: http://morris.com

Description:

American Angler magazine is seeking a seasoned editor to lead each bi-monthly issue from inception to imposition, design, and printing. The editor will also play an integral role in the development of our websites and tablet publications. We are looking for a content dynamo who understands American Angler’s service-journalism mission and can keep it lively with world-class fly fishing photography, writerly back-page essays, engaging covers, timely conservation reporting, and an innovative variety of columns and departments.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in English, journalism, or communications preferred.
Three to five years experience in magazine publishing, or similar.
Experience assigning and editing magazine-length feature stories and departments.
Experience managing writers, photographers, and illustrators.
Conceptual thinker who can visualize an issue from first page to last.
Outstanding content and line editor capable of turning ordinary copy into engaging feature stories.
Strong eye for photo editing as well as demonstrated photography skills.
Knowledge of fly fishing for multiple species, fresh and salt water.
Experience working in InDesign and Photoshop.
Responsibilities:

Assign, edit, and produce six 76-page issues per year.
Manage editorial and photography budget.
Write the magazine’s annual gear feature.
Contribute editor’s column and occasional features.
Work with the art director to guide layout and design of each issue.
Develop exceptional cover content and copy.
Occasional travel for fly fishing trade shows and story assignments.
Contribute to American Angler website and tablet editions.
Offer creative input on direct mail and marketing materials.
Work with publisher as necessary on other Morris Sporting Group titles.
Send letter of introduction and resume to Steve Walburn at steve.walburn@morris.com. No phone calls please.

About Us:

American Angler (est. 1991) is a nationally distributed, general-interest fly fishing magazine within the Morris Sporting Group, which also includes Fly Tyer magazine and Gray’s Sporting Journal. American Angler is the sport’s “how-to” authority, focusing on practical angling strategies for all species of fresh- and saltwater game fish, destination travel, new fly fishing products, and natural-resource issues relating to fly fishermen. The Morris Sporting group is headquartered in Augusta, Georgia, and collectively reaches nearly 100,000 paid and verified readers.

 

My son and some cousins live in Augusta. If I knew anything about fly fishing, I'd totally jump all over this.

 

A river runs through Augusta. Probably its only connection to fly fishing.

 

Rae's Creek?

 

Savannah River, which has two sizeable Corps of Engineers lakes just north of Augusta.

There are actually a fair number of trout streams in North Georgia and northern South Carolina not too far from Augusta.