Job title: Intern – Digital Lifestyle

Company: Corus Entertainment

Job description: Are you creative, dynamic and passionate? Do you like to think outside of the box and find new ways to achieve your goals? Corus Entertainment has an exciting opportunity for you. If you have a passion for excellence, and would like to work for Corus Entertainment, we encourage you to apply.

Digital Lifestyle Intern, Corus Entertainment

We’re looking for superstar interns to support our editorial staff on Corus Entertainment’s lifestyle sites: Food Network Canada, HGTV Canada, Complex Canada and Slice. Throughout this internship, you will be immersed in the day-to-day editorial process, learn how original content is planned and produced and better understand strategies for running successful lifestyle websites.

Corus is a driving force in the media industry with a diverse portfolio of strong brands that entertain and inform audiences through great storytelling and compelling content, reaching millions of people around the world every day.

In this Digital Editorial role, you be responsible for:

• Assisting editors with story research: pitch, edit, and write as needed
• Identifying trending topics for coverage, and contributing to brainstorming and content planning
• Sourcing and cropping images for content features
• Editing and building content in our content management systems
• Learning and applying SEO to content
• Assisting with other editorial duties as required

You will learn:

• Best practices for writing, editing and producing digital lifestyle content
• Ability to cleanly publish multiple pieces of content daily in content management systems
• Gain experience from lifestyle editors and interacting with freelance writers
• Strategies for content planning for digital sites and SEO
• How to analyze and interpret digital metrics, analytics and audiences
• Work collaboratively with digital, social, marketing and sales teams across a large Canadian broadcast company

*Please note this is a paid internship with an honorarium.

Our ideal candidates will:

• Currently be enrolled in a full-time journalism, media, communications or marketing program in Canada
• Be familiar with our brands and passionate about lifestyle content
• Have strong interest working in a digital publishing and production environment, eager to learn the process of content planning, writing, editing and producing digital editorial content
• Be familiar with digital publishing platforms, photo editing software (Photoshop) and Canadian Press style
• Be a self-starter with exceptional organizational, verbal and written communication skills
• Showcase a strong understanding of audience engagement in a digital environment
• Have a portfolio (published or otherwise) that demonstrates an understanding of the type of content that appeals to and engages online users
• Have knowledge of or interest in gaining an understanding of analytics, including Google Analytics, YouTube Analytics and Omniture
• Demonstrates the ability to work in a rapidly changing, dynamic environment, independently and as part of a team
• Showcase a passion for all lifestyle content – broadcast, digital and social

Why Corus?

Corus is a driving force in the media industry with a diverse portfolio of strong brands that entertain and inform audiences through great storytelling and compelling content, reaching millions of people around the world every day.

We have a passionate drive to connect with the world around us: to express, to share, to be part of people’s lives. Walk around our offices, our stations, our studios across the country and you’ll feel it. You’ll see it in action.

You’ll see it in the open communication and the approachability of our people. You’ll see it in our care for quality work and the interest in new, creative solutions. You’ll see it in how we work with external partners, and how we care about our communities. These are all core to the values we commit to living each and every day – Win Together, Think Beyond, Make It Happen, Learn Every Day, Show We Care. Our values describe what makes us pretty unique – and amazing – place to work.

At Corus we value and actively involve the full range of what makes people unique in order to create a strong and innovative company where amazing people thrive. A company where people have the full opportunity to show their unique value and develop their potential. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, people of colour, people with disabilities, people from all gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities.

Corus is also committed to providing accommodations throughout the interview and employment process. If you require an accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.

How to Apply

If you’re interested in this role, click ‘apply now’.

*No phone calls please. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Expected salary:

Location: Toronto, ON

Job date: Fri, 02 Jul 2021 02:36:53 GMT

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