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Job Title


Entertainment Sub Editor


Company : Mid-Day


Location : Vellore, Tamil nadu


Created : 2025-04-05


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Join our dynamic team at Midday Infomedia Ltd! Are you passionate about digital entertainment? Do you have a keen eye for detail and a knack for storytelling? Midday Infomedia Ltd is looking for a talented Sub Editor to join our team and help shape the future of digital entertainment content.Responsible for editing and producing online entertainment content. Will assist with daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly plans and meeting targets, and also help with the rota. Will be responsible for quality control. Key Responsibilities:• Ideating, pitching, planning, reporting, writing, copy-editing and publishing online entertainment content – compliant with SEO best practices• Checking print entertainment content and revising headlines and keywords per SEO• Assisting with making entertainment rotas and daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly entertainment plans• Monitoring social media trends and reporting and writing timely, entertainment copy• Updating on homepage/ entertainment section/pages with entertainment slots• Coordinating with photographers/camerapersons/reporters for stories/photos/video• Maintaining a daily story count; meeting fortnightly, monthly, quarterly and annual entertainment story targets• Handling homepage/section-page entertainment programming• Multimedia: Reporting and/or anchoring entertainment video stories, conceiving and/or hosting entertainment podcasts• Coordinating with the news, feature, multimedia, social, print and other teams as requiredRoles & ResponsibilitiesJob Specific Knowledge & Skillsa) Functional: Should understand the digital entertainment media space. The candidate should possess exceptional English writing and editing skills, along with excellent entertainment news judgement. Must monitor trendsb) Behavioural: Team player with excellent communication skills, multitasking skills, ability to handle pressures of work and deadline, and ability and willingness to take ownership of deliverablesAttributes, Qualification and Experience:• Should take ownership of work and individual as well as team deliverables• Should have worked for mainstream print and/or digital media brands’ entertainment section• Should have exceptional sub-editing, reporting and writing skills in English• Should have excellent knowledge of entertainment• Ability to report and write entertainment copy compliant with SEO, social media and other best practices• Ability to create entertainment content within tight deadlines, yet meet accuracy and quality-control standards• Ability to do multimedia reporting, including anchoring entertainment video and hosting entertainment podcasts in English• Ability to collaborate with other teams on multiple entertainment stories simultaneously• Should be willing to work long hours, including early mornings and late nights, including on weekends, with rotating shifts and weekly offs - Sub-Editor – Digital Entertainment1-2 years as an English-language entertainment desk editor and/or journalist in the media space - Senior Sub-Editor – Digital Entertainment 3-5 years as an English-language entertainment desk editor and/or journalist in the media space Interested Candidates Kindly mail your updated Resume with your Current CTC and expected CTC to reshma.krishnan@