<p>Remote (New York City Preferred) | Part-Time (Transitioning to Full-Time)</p><p><br></p><p><strong>About the Role</strong></p><p>A historic American magazine of ideas, originally founded in 1924 and once an important forum for intellectual and cultural life, is being rebuilt for a new era. The new publication will focus on science, arts, letters, and public life, combining an ambitious digital publication with a quarterly print magazine launching in September 2027. It draws on the extraordinary legacy of the original while creating something distinctly contemporary.</p><p>The publication is hiring an Editorial Associate to work directly with the Founding Editor and closely with the Managing Editor, Publisher, and broader editorial team. This is not a conventional position at an established publication. The person joining will help create the editorial systems, contributor relationships, and working culture of a historic title being rebuilt from the ground up. The position begins part-time hourly with the expectation of transitioning to full-time as editorial activity accelerates.</p><p><strong>What the Role Covers</strong></p><ul><li>Helping identify outstanding writers, thinkers, subjects, and emerging intellectual and cultural conversations</li><li>Researching prospective contributors and preparing background and briefing materials</li><li>Supporting the editorial team in commissioning and developing articles</li><li>Communicating professionally and thoughtfully with distinguished writers and contributors</li><li>Maintaining the contributor database and prospective writer lists for upcoming issues</li><li>Tracking commissions, assignments, deadlines, submissions, revisions, and publication status</li><li>Maintaining draft histories and author correspondence</li><li>Coordinating contracts, permissions, photography, biographies, and other contributor materials</li><li>Maintaining the editorial calendar and detailed production grids</li><li>Helping coordinate the editorial process from initial idea through publication</li><li>Working closely with the Managing Editor on editorial workflow and production coordination</li><li>Following up on decisions, assignments, deadlines, and next steps to ensure nothing falls through the cracks</li><li>Researching archival material and helping develop the publication's historic archive for contemporary use</li><li>Assisting with newsletters, digital publishing, podcasts, special projects, events, and other editorial initiatives as they develop</li><li>Helping build the systems and processes required for an ambitious new publication to operate effectively</li></ul><p><strong>Qualifications</strong></p><p>The publication is looking for intelligence, curiosity, judgment, initiative, editorial sensibility, organization, and the ability to get things done. There is no single resume that defines the right candidate.</p><ul><li>Intellectually curious across literature, science, technology, history, culture, philosophy, politics, and the forces transforming society</li><li>Excellent reader, writer, researcher, and critical thinker</li><li>Exceptionally organized with ability to manage many simultaneous assignments</li><li>Digitally fluent and comfortable learning new editorial and organizational tools</li><li>Comfortable communicating with highly accomplished writers, academics, scientists, artists, and public intellectuals</li><li>Resourceful and able to take initiative without waiting for detailed instructions</li><li>Attentive to detail and extremely reliable about follow-through</li><li>Comfortable moving between large intellectual questions and small logistical details</li><li>Able to bring order and clarity to a fast-moving startup environment</li><li>Collaborative, thoughtful, discreet, and professional</li></ul><p>Experience at a magazine, newspaper, digital publication, publishing house, think tank, university, cultural institution, or similar organization is valuable but not essential. The publication would rather find an unusually bright, curious, organized, and driven person than insist on a conventional publishing background.</p><p><strong>To Apply</strong></p><p>Visit Mediabistro for full details and application instructions.</p>