Dear Readers: The Indy Seeks Additional Editors

Dear Readers,
As you might have noticed, the size of our issues has grown in most weeks to over 30 articles/week. We’re delighted that we can provide a broader range of news to the community, but the weekly editorial demands are now stressing the capabilities of our current editorial staff. So we’re looking for a couple of folks to join us and help us produce Amherst’s weekly independent progressive news source.

We’re looking for experienced editors to join our team and help us get the Indy into shape before we post it on Friday nights. Members of the editorial team copy edit manuscripts for clarity, accuracy, grammar, and rough compliance with our style guidelines. Most work occurs from Wednesdays through Fridays. With the addition of two new editors, we expect that the weekly work volume would be 6–8 articles/week (with 2–3 of those articles being long). 

All work is volunteer and, prior to the pandemic, editors met more or less monthly to discuss style and format, brainstorm new story ideas, and more.

We are looking for people who already have editorial experience, preferably in a news medium,  though previous editorial work in academic or technical writing will be fine. If you’re interested, drop us a note at amherstindy@gmail.com and tell us a little bit about yourself and your experience as an editor.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

The Indy Editors