• Writing articles and feature stories for the magazine; to research and do field reporting as required.
• Reporting events that are relevant to the magazine.
• Conducting interviews with various personalities.
• Writing stand first (brief introductions which sum up the story).
• To perform subbing and editing of articles to remove spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.
• To rewrite materials so that it flows better and adheres to news treatment policy of the publication.
• To ensure that a story fits a particular word count by cutting or expanding material as necessary.
• To write headlines that capture the essence of the story or are clever or amusing.
• To edit press releases or reports received from different agencies.
• To check facts and stories to ensure they are accurate, do not go against the publication’s policy.
• To write captions for the pictures.
• To coordinate with the design team for page layouts, to perform proofreading and make corrections of complete pages produced.
• To work to a page plan to ensure that the right stories appear in the correct place on each page.
• Coordinating with writers and reporters for stories and corroborate facts with them.
• To maintain social media pages of the magazine, check emails and maintain archives.
• Writing movie reviews, drama reviews, news bytes and feature articles.
• Editing and coordinating with the editorial team.
• Reporting events, shoot visits, set visits, event coverage.
• Conducting interviews.
• Handling HIP’s social media for live events and shoots.
• Writing fictional and non fictional articles relating to society, education, psychology, entertainment, art, culture, lifestyle, health & beauty, fashion.
• Monthly editorial page making.
• Monthly event coverage including product and personality launches, fashion shows, social conferences, art exhibitions, literature festivals, health & beauty related events, social documentary premiers, awards ceremonies.
• Conducting interviews of artists, socialites, writers, journalists, celebrities.
• Fashion shoots handling and related page making.
• Designing four pager front and back cover including interactive and theme based picture selection, background setting, font and font size selection, color scheme, blurbs placement, photo editing.
• Relating the central idea of text with pictures, color schemes, placement and overall theme of the page for page making.
• Proofreading, text and page layout corrections, text and picture placement, text and picture alignment, selection of font and font sizes for editing.
• Coordinating with design and printing teams for magazine dummy and folio handling.
• Coordinating with the marketing team for arranging monthly shoots from the brands and designers.
• Handling promotions of products, brands, TV programs and launch events.
• Handling social media networks (Facebook, Twitter, official website, etc) for daily updates, posting magazines, articles, readers follow-ups, promotional activities.
• Coordinating with the marketing team for increasing magazine circulation by subscription made through print and digital media.
• Working with creative and IT team for publishing Women’s Own Magazine as an e-magazine.