Jobs
Thank you for your interest in employment opportunities with Salon Media Group. Across all departments, you’ll find we’re passionate about contributing to Salon’s fearless independent voice. Besides the satisfaction of working in a job that truly matters, you’ll enjoy a creative environment and great benefits.
You’ll find several job descriptions below. These are just some of our needs. Particularly in you have tech and development skills that encompass mobile, PHP, WordPress, Node.js, MongoDB, Python, and Aria Systems, we’d like to hear from you. For positions other than those below, please write to us at recruitment@salon.com.
OPEN POSITIONS
Site Moderator for Open Salon and Salon.com
With an audience of 12 million monthly unique visitors, Salon.com covers breaking news, politics, culture, technology and entertainment through investigative reporting, fearless commentary and criticism, and provocative personal essays. Salon.com has been a leader in online media since the dawn of the digital age and has bureaus in San Francisco and New York. Its award-winning staff of writers includes prominent political columnists Joan Walsh, Steve Kornacki (co-host of MSNBC’s “The Cycle”) and Alex Pareene, as well as cultural critics Andrew O’Hehir, Laura Miller and Mary Elizabeth Williams.
In addition to more traditional News, Politics, Entertainment and Life pages, Salon.com also features a hybrid social networking and blogging site called Open Salon (open.salon.com). Open offers devoted readers of the website the opportunity to write their own essays and stories, which are then compiled into a daily publication. The strongest pieces are shepherded to the website proper, where they’re typically featured in our Life section and homepage.
Both Salon.com and Open Salon encourage robust discussion, the latter site giving its users the chance not only to comment on fellow bloggers’ posts but to rate them as well. Because our readership is so passionate, however, this discourse can occasionally veer off track. This is where you come in.
Salon.com is looking for a moderator to make sure our reader responses remain healthy and germane. Primary responsibilities include deleting spam content that appears across the two sites and monitoring the comment sections for overtly inappropriate material — hate speech targeting a specific group, needlessly provocative responses (good old-fashioned trolling), advertising for third-party sites, copyrighted materials and all other manner of spam.
The moderator will work hand in hand with our editorial staff, namely the editor of Open Salon, as well as more technical project managers from our production team. Candidates should possess excellent communication skills, patience for our thoughtful, demanding and (very occasionally) cranky readership, as well as a healthy interest in the content both sites produce.
Because our publications live online, our moderator will be able to work via remote access from a location of his or her choosing. Applicants should submit their resumes to moderator@salon.com.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Web Designer
Salon.com is a leading progressive news site, combining award-winning commentary and reporting on the most important issues of the day. We are looking for a designer in our New York office to work on Salon.com, mobile and tablet apps, advertising and sales materials, and special projects. The designer will work in close collaboration with product managers, designers, developers, editors and sales people.
Requirements:
- 2-4 years of web design experience
- Knowledge of the latest design trends
- Ability to manage priorities and expectations in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work with product managers, developers, editors and sales people
- Ability to communicate design goals and concepts both in person and through email
Nice to have:
- Knowledge of new technologies
- Knowledge of UI best practices
- Experience in designing for social networks and mobile
- Experience working on other online publishing sites
To apply, send an email to techjobs@salon.com and include the following:
- Resume or LinkedIn URL
- Work samples or links to your work
Applicants without work samples or who do not have web experience will not be considered.
Salon Media Group operates the pioneering, award-winning news site, Salon.com. With an audience of 10 million monthly unique visitors, Salon.com covers breaking news, politics, culture, technology and entertainment through investigative reporting, fearless commentary and criticism, and provocative personal essays. Salon.com has been a leader in online media since 1995 and has bureaus in San Francisco, New York City and Washington D.C
Editorial Internships @ Salon
Interns are an important part of Salon’s daily editorial operations. They work closely with Salon staff to research, report, write and produce our news and culture coverage. They also take part in editorial meetings and otherwise learn about the day-to-day workings of an award-winning online news and entertainment site. Many Salon interns have gone on to jobs in the media, including Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Elle, CNN and, of course, Salon.
Salon offers unpaid internships throughout the year in our New York offices. To apply, please send a cover letter, resume and writing samples to internships@salon.com. Tell us why you want to intern with Salon! Please specify in the subject line whether you are applying for a News or Culture internship. We require a time commitment of at least 20 hours per week, over at least 3 days. It is possible to do the internship for college credit. Some professional experience is required.
Please do not contact individual editors. No phone calls, please.
Sales Intern
Some professional experience is required.
Salon’s busy NY sales department seeks an intern to contribute to our sales efforts. Although this is an unpaid internship, you’ll gain valuable work experience, including insight into the complete sales cycle from prospecting to pitching to winning campaigns and then integrating them. You’ll work with a variety of important industry tools such as Salesforce contact database; comScore audience reporting; Google Analytics, and more. Strong written communication skills are required; experience with research concepts, databases, PowerPoint and Excel are preferred.
To apply, please send your resume and an introduction explaining why you’re interested in the position to internships@salon.com. Please specify in the subject line that you are applying for a Sales internship. We require a time commitment of at least 10 hours per week, over at least 2 days. It is possible to do the internship for college credit.
Salon is one of the premier sources for news and culture on the Web or in any medium. Launched in 1995, Salon was a pioneer in online journalism and has been at the forefront of online news, community conversation and information delivery ever since. Salon is an equal opportunity employer.
