The Role: The Quality & Digital Editing Team ("Q&D team") is a global group of editors tasked with ensuring Platts content meets our high standards. The team drives long-term improvement and excellence, playing a central role in coaching and mentoring reporters in their journey to becoming strong content creators.
The Impact: To ensure quality, consistency, and adherence to Platts News Essentials and style.
The Career Opportunity: This role offers the opportunity to learn about the many commodity markets Platts covers, as well as various types of content Platts creates. You'll play a central role in ensuring Platts content meets the highest editorial standards, is free of errors and libel risk, and is structured to have maximum impact. You'll develop strong written and spoken communication skills, digital skills and will learn to work within tight deadlines.
The Team / The Business: You'll sit within the Q&D team, which is part of the wider news team at Platts. You'll work with global commodity editors and content creators in a fast-paced environment. Editing can include news stories, market commentaries and thought leadership reports, among others.
Your Skills: Very strong interpersonal and communication skills; Strong English language writing and editing skills; Digital media skills; Moderate to strong math skills; Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines; A degree in journalism and 3-4 years of editing experience will be highly advantageous.
Responsibilities
Ensure all content meets Platts News Essentials principles and style rules, sending content back for rework with constructive feedback when needed.
Ensure all content is market relevant, accurate, legally compliant and concise.
Ensure Platts insight is presented in the best way and suggest changes when needed.
Ensure all Platts.com content is optimized for online display, with tight headlines/subheads, clear graphics.
At S&P Global Platts, we provide the insights; you make better informed trading and business decisions with confidence. We're the leading independent provider of information and benchmark prices for the commodities and energy markets. Customers in over 150 countries look to our expertise in news, pricing and analytics to deliver greater transparency and efficiency to markets. S&P Global Platts coverage includes oil and gas, power, petrochemicals, metals, agriculture and shipping.
S&P Global Platts is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit www.platts.com.
S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer committed to making all employment decisions without regard to race/ethnicity, sex, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital status (including domestic partnerships and civil unions), sexual orientation, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.
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20 - Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), EDTGRP202.1 - Middle Professional Tier I (EEO Job Group)
Job ID: 256989 Posted On: 2020-12-15 Location: Houston, Texas, United States
