Media, Print and Publishing - Editorial Assistant
Media, Print and Publishing - Editorial Assistant
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Editorial assistants provide support at all stages of the publication process for books, journals, magazines and online content.
- Be a point of contact for authors
- Keep databases, spreadsheets and other records up to date
- Read documents and make corrections
- Deal with rights and permissions
- Act as personal assistant to commissioning editors
- Work with images and page layout software
- Proof and edit online text, including social media content
- Compile and send out newsletters using design and distribution software
- Edit text and images using a content management system (CMS)
- Edit text on apps
You could work in an office or from home.
Editorial Assistants tend to work between 37 to 39 hours a week. You could work occasional evenings.
Starting: £18,000
Experienced: £28,000
You can get into this job through a university course, an apprenticeship or working towards this role.
Subjects like English, journalism or media studies are often preferred.
If you want to specialise in a particular field of publishing, you may need a degree that's closely related to it, for example physics or maths for a scientific journal.
You can get into this role through an advanced apprenticeship as a publishing assistant.
This typically takes 18 months to complete as a mix of workplace learning and off-the-job study. If you have an EHCP you may be able to apply under the DfE exemption which allows the apprentice to use Entry level 3 English and Maths qualifications. The apprentice would have to be component enough to successfully achieve all other aspects of the apprenticeship requirements, become occupationally competent and achieve Entry Level 3 in English and Maths before the end of their apprenticeship.
You could work in a publishing office or a company's communications department as a general assistant and work your way up through in-house training and promotion.