Be Part of What's Next
Join Hearst Books & Specials and help bring exceptional editorial products to life. As a Temporary Copyeditor, you'll play a critical role in ensuring our books, bookazines, and special-interest publications meet the highest standards of quality, accuracy, and consistency while supporting some of the most recognized media brands in the industry.
About Hearst Magazines (Why Us?)
Hearst Magazines is one of the largest publishers in the world, with a portfolio of 30 brands that reach millions of readers across print, digital, social, and experiential platforms. Our brands inspire, inform, and entertain audiences through trusted storytelling and innovative content. At Hearst, you'll collaborate with talented teams who are passionate about creating exceptional experiences while shaping the future of media.
Key Responsibilities (What You're Doing)
- Copyedit manuscripts for grammar, spelling, punctuation, syntax, clarity, consistency, and readability while preserving each author's voice and brand style.
- Ensure all editorial content adheres to Hearst editorial standards and The Chicago Manual of Style.
- Edit manuscripts in Microsoft Word using Track Changes and review editorial content within Adobe InCopy.
- Review and mark corrections on Adobe Acrobat PDF page proofs, ensuring editorial changes are accurately incorporated throughout multiple proof rounds.
- Verify the accuracy and consistency of recipes, captions, sidebars, tables, charts, pull quotes, URLs, cross-references, page references, running heads, folios, and other editorial elements, as applicable.
- Identify factual inconsistencies, ambiguous language, permissions concerns, legal issues, and editorial questions, partnering with Project Editors and Managing Editors to resolve them.
- Collaborate with editorial, design, and production teams to manage multiple concurrent projects and meet production deadlines.
- Perform final quality-control reviews before files are released to prepress and printing.
Qualifications (What We're Looking For)
- 3+ years of experience copyediting books, magazines, bookazines, or special-interest publications, or equivalent professional experience.
- Expert knowledge of English grammar, punctuation, spelling, usage, and The Chicago Manual of Style.
- Proficiency using Microsoft Word with Track Changes, Adobe InCopy, and Adobe Acrobat Pro.
- Strong attention to detail with exceptional proofreading, organizational, and time-management skills.
- Ability to identify inconsistencies while maintaining author voice, editorial integrity, and brand standards.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across editorial, design, and production teams.
- Experience with book, magazine, or bookazine production workflows is preferred.
- Experience copyediting lifestyle, food, wellness, home, automotive, or consumer publications is a plus.
- Familiarity with Adobe InDesign, print production, and page composition is preferred.
- This is a fully remote, project-based position. Hours will vary based on production schedules and project workload.
The hourly rate for this role is $35.00 per hour. This position is not eligible for bonus or commission compensation. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
Hearst Magazines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience copyediting books, magazines, bookazines, or special-interest publications
- Expert knowledge of English grammar, punctuation, spelling, usage, and The Chicago Manual of Style
- Proficiency using Microsoft Word with Track Changes
- Proficiency using Adobe InCopy
- Proficiency using Adobe Acrobat Pro (reviewing and marking PDF page proofs)
- Strong attention to detail with exceptional proofreading, organizational, and time-management skills
- Ability to identify inconsistencies while maintaining author voice, editorial integrity, and brand standards
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to collaborate with editorial, design, and production teams
- Experience with book, magazine, or bookazine production workflows
- Experience copyediting lifestyle, food, wellness, home, automotive, or consumer publications
- Familiarity with Adobe InDesign, print production, and page composition
Hearst Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hearst and has not been reviewed or approved by Hearst.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical plan choice, full in-network preventive coverage, dental and vision, telemedicine, prescription coverage, and fertility resources. Mental-health resources and other wellbeing services (e.g., therapy sessions, crisis support, virtual physical therapy, and chronic-condition programs) further strengthen the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as meaningful through a 401(k) plan with company matching and Hearst covering plan administration fees. Performance bonuses are also noted as available in some roles, adding an additional rewards component beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits include paid holidays, paid sick days, and vacation time with a commonly cited annual range, alongside paid parental leave and family medical leave. A remote work program and flexibility signals are also included as part of the overall rewards experience.
Hearst Insights
What We Do
Hearst is a leading global, diversified media, information and services company with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; transportation assets including CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; 33 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, which reach a combined 19 percent of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany, New York); more than 300 magazines around the world, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Men's Health and Car and Driver, and digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in emerging digital entertainment companies such as Complex Networks.
