We’re Looking for a Copy Editor, a Newsstand Writer, and Two Urban Planners

By David Topping

Photo by Miles Storey.

Torontoist is always looking for new contributors. We’re never not looking! (Such is life.) But right now, we are also aiming to fill a total of four core positions: we need one Copy Editor, to keep our contributors’ fine content in fine shape; one Newsstand writer, to start the news day off right; and two Urban Planner writers, to provide our readers with the best itinerary in the city. Each position is fun, each pays (modestly!), and each is one that we’re looking to fill fast.

Copy Editor

Trading days, Torontoist’s copy editors—a rarity on the online world!—look over Torontoist’s content before it’s published, and polish the already-great work of our almost-perfect contributors to a fine sheen. The gig is ideal for someone who is at a computer during work hours and can, at regular intervals, replace hyphens with en dashes. (Okay, it’s more, and more exciting, than that, we promise.)
What we want when you apply: Tell us about yourself, and why you’re interested in the position. Then show us where and how we’ve erred: find three pieces on Torontoist—excluding the one you’re reading right now—that you think have not been copy edited extensively enough, and tell us exactly what you’d change about them, while still preserving the writer’s voice and intent (a big part of the job). Finding the pieces should, we hope, be hard.

Urban Planners

We’re looking for two contributors to join our team of writers who collect and write our curated daily event listings, Urban Planner. The job requires not only a strong writer but also an extremely organized and very tuned-in collator, someone able to separate the wheat from the chaff and give Torontoist’s readers the best to-do list in the city. The job is evenly split between several people; you’d write listings for just a day or two a week.
What we want when you apply: Tell us about yourself, and why you’re interested in the position. Then, give us a demo day of listings: pick a day in the future, and write an Urban Planner post as though you already had the job. (You don’t need to worry about the image for the post, mind you.)

Newsstand Writer

Newsstand is our weekday morning roundup of local news from other outlets across the city. We’re looking for an organized, careful, well-read, interesting, and interested writer with terrific curatorial skills, an early schedule, and (when appropriate) a decent sense of humour. As the job of writing Newsstand will be divided amongst two to three people, each writer will be responsible for doing it a few mornings each week.
What we want when you apply: Tell us about yourself, and why you’re interested in the position. Then, write a demo Newsstand for a day of your choosing—maybe the day you apply?—with the stories that you think suit our readership best.

To apply for any of the positions above, please email me, David Topping, at [email protected] before midnight on Sunday, April 11. You may also want to take a look at our Contribute page, which lists some other things we look for when we hire contributors. (If you’re applying for the positions above, you can ignore the “What We Want When You Apply” section of the page.)
Oh, and—if you want to contribute to Torontoist, but none of the positions above catch your eye, we’d like to hear from you, too, especially if you’re interested in one of these things. You can find more about becoming a regular Torontoist contributor here.