Hyphen magazine - Asian American arts, culture, and politics

Hyphen is currently a volunteer-run organization. All positions are paid in love and snacks.

This is how we thank you! Delicious food from our staff holiday party/appreciation. Photo courtesy of Andria Lo (www.andrialo.com)

BUSINESS TEAM

Hyphen is looking for smart, overachieving, creative, articulate, innovative, detailed-oriented and above all, dedicated members to join its Business Team. We are interested in social justice issues, politics and pop culture. There is no money involved, just the experience of working alongside the greatest bunch of people you'll ever meet. There, we said it.

WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Circulations/Subscriptions Representative
• Ad Sales Representative - Online & Print
• Marketing Representative - General
• Marketing Representative - Social Media
• Development Assistant
• Business Copy Writer
• Events/Project Generalist

General Duties & Responsibilities:

• Attend biweekly staff meetings in our San Francisco office (exceptions made for certain positions)
• Lend your hand to existing projects, such as marketing efforts and event planning
• Brainstorm for the good of the magazine
• Join committees and lead new initiatives from start to finish
• Table at Hyphen sponsored events (and get in for free)
• Sport our merchandise because it's in fashion every season

Knowledge and Skills:

• Intelligence, tried and tested business, nonprofit, or media experience a plus (bonus points if you have both!)
• Persuasive and energetic, so you can convince people why we're good for their souls
• Team player, and not a lone wolf
• Self-motivated and dependable with a hard-working ethic
• Can wear multiple hats and pick up the slack
• Down for the cause but not obsessed by it
• Not easily offended or dissuaded by hard-asses
• Loves culture, your momma and self (not in that order)

STILL HAVE QUESTIONS?

Feel free to drop our recruiter a line at getinvolved[at]hyphenmagazine.com.

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MAGAZINE AND ONLINE EDITORIAL TEAM

Hyphen is looking for credible, smart, bookish, overachieving, dusty-fingered, detailed-oriented and opinionated editors and writers. Our staff members are news junkies who are interested in social justice issues, politics and pop culture. There is no money involved, just the experience of working alongside the finest Asian American minds that community college ever produced.

Issues that affect Asian Americans are what we cover. While our focus is Asians living in the United States, we also strive to cover the international Asian diaspora through the lens of the Asian American experience. But, we'll still cringe at anything with the phrase "East meets West" in it.

Previous journalism experience desired, but we're open to newcomers.

We're especially looking for people in the following areas to help us produce our print magazine and website:

Politics Editor & Writers

 Top of our wish list are news junkies interested in social justice issues, election coverage, and tracking acts of brilliance from the three branches of government, as they affect Asian Americans. We want writers and editors familiar with key figures and debates at a national level, and who also know major Asian American figures in the political landscape and their history on issues. Especially keen on those who keep abreast of ethnic media (such as Colorlines, Racialicious), as well as major issues impacting other communities of color.

Blog Editor

The blog editor manages a team of regular columnists and occasional bloggers/staff contributors, providing them with content edits and copyedits of their posts as well as technical support in our CMS. Specific duties include:

• Maintaining publishing calendar for recurring writers as well as one-off posts and special events (film festivals, Mr. Hyphen, et cetera). Coordinating publishing schedules with other teams (Edit, Biz).
• Providing deeper content edits to blog posts when necessary to shape structure, tone, argument, and maintain Hyphen voice.
• Copyediting posts for spelling, grammar, formatting, and length.
• Formatting text, images, and video in Drupal CMS. Spot-checking for correct tags, categories, and dates.
• Pitching ideas to bloggers and coordinating publishing dates. Vetting pitches based on Hyphen voice and mission.
• Recruiting/vetting blogger applicants and getting new writers oriented with Hyphen.
• Coordinating Facebook and Twitter posts with social media staffers.
• Providing general writing and technical guidance to blog staff.
• Managing other administrative tasks such as vetting blog comments. 

Music Editor

We’re looking for someone who is in-tune with the music scene and can help us highlight the hottest new and established Asian American bands, rappers, singers and DJs. If more than two rock-writing cliches are spotted -- your application will be immediately dismissed. If yours is accepted, you'd be in charge of reviews and features for Hyphen's print magazine and website.

Web Producers

Help enhance Hyphen's Internet presence. If you can tweet, Facebook, edit, write and know what HTML stands for, we're looking for you. The web producers work under the Online Editor to manage our social media and website, which can include posting blog entries and news stories, archiving of print edition content and other production duties. They coordinate with editorial, social media, blog and tech team members to keep Hyphen's website fresh and current. Familiarity content management systems, especially Drupal, is a plus.

Features Editor and Deputy Features Editors

Help develop the in-depth stories that anchor the magazine. We're looking for a team of editors to put together stories that explore a more complex representation of Asian America that is missing from most media. They can be serious, they can be funny, but most of all they are enlightening and well-crafted for both print and web.

Arts and Entertainment Editor

Hyphen needs an editor who can take charge of our books, movies, music and literature sections and lead our coverage of up-and-coming writers, filmmakers and musicians. You'll help edit stories and conceptualize Hyphen's entertainment content for print and online.

Front of the Book

FOB editors coordinate the fun, quirky features that open the print magazine. We need editors who can use style and humor to create a section that draws in readers. Here's a few areas in particular where we are looking for editors:

• Lazy Susan: This section is a package of 3 tightly written, intelligent and thought provoking stories in the style of The New Yorker's Talk of the Town. Pieces are short (500-600 words) and tend to err on the quirkier side of Asian American life.

Copy editors

Wordsmiths with a sense of style and substance are what we're looking for in a Hyphen copy editor. If you can shine copy like car wax and make headlines sing, we're looking for you. Previous copy editing experience and knowledge of AP style desired.

Staff Writers & Blog Columnists

Hyphen is looking for writers with style and sass to cover a range of topics from the frivolous to the serious, for both our print editions and website. Assignments may range from profiles to in-depth feature stories, current events-oriented news and analysis to book, movie and music reviews -- so long as they are well written and solidly reported.

Hyphen blog columnists need to have an engaging, conversational style consistent with the Hyphen voice, and be highly informed about Asian American culture and politics. Columnists must commit to posting once every four weeks on topics of interest to Asian America. They should have basic HTML editing skills and be familiar with AP style.

We're also looking for writers to contribute content on a freelance basis in any of the above categories. To freelance or guest post, please see our submission guidelines.

General Duties & Responsibilities for Editorial Team:

• Attend editorial meetings (at least every two weeks)
• Help determine overall editorial direction of the magazine, and themes for each issue
• Brainstorm story ideas that fit within those themes
• Recruit freelance writers and work closely with them to meet deadlines
• Edit stories from 300 to 3,000 words
• Fact-check copy
• Work with art department to request or suggest art for stories you are editing
• Proofread

Knowledge and Skills:

• Proven editing and professional journalism experience
• Able to snarl at bad copy and rewrite the lead five times — each one better than the last
• Basic copy editing skills (Knowledge of AP Style a plus)
• Loves to spell check
• Plans life around deadlines
• Can wear multiple hats and pick up the slack
• Post-identity politicked
• Down for the cause but not obsessed by it
• Not easily offended or dissuaded by hard-asses
• Loves culture, your momma and self (not in that order)

We prefer that our editors be landlocked to the San Francisco Bay Area (though consideration is extended to those living elsewhere). Blog columnists and staff writers, however, may work by remote.

Those interested in any of the staff writer or editing positions should submit cover letter, resume and examples of published work to the interim editor in chief, Lisa Macabasco, at lisa[dot]macabasco[at]hyphenmagazine[dot]com.

Blog applicants, please send the following materials to the blog editors at erin[at]hyphenmagazine[dot]com and sylvie[at]hyphenmagazine[dot]com:

• resume
• a sample post written specifically for the Hyphen blog
• two additional writing samples

 

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WEB TEAM

Hyphen is also on the lookout for a top-notch staff to run the technical aspects of our website. Specifically we need:

Web Programmer

Experience working with content management systems like Joomla or Drupal and integrating third-party features. Also, programming experience with PHP or Perl and intermediate proficiency with databases, XHTML, CSS, Javascript.

Web Designer

• Experience with front-end template design for content management systems like Drupal.
• Coding front-end to work on 4 major browsers (Firefox Windows, Firefox Mac, Safari, IE).
• Proficient with Photoshop or other Graphic applications.

Web Team Member

Help us keep our site up-to-date. This position also helps test the site to make sure its functioning correctly.

Web team applicants should send resumes to sean[at]hyphenmagazine.com.

Hyphen staff enjoying themselves at the staff holiday party/appreciation. Photo courtesy of Andria Lo (www.andrialo.com)