Want a Job as an Editor? Try Ed2010.com

If you’re in the hunt for an opening as a magazine editor — especially if you live in New York or on the west coast — then there’s probably no site on the Internet that’s as closely targeted to your niche as Ed2010.com. Begun just over a decade ago by Chandra Turner, who was then working as an editorial assistant for a New York-based magazine, the organization has since grown nationwide as a place for aspiring editors to look for jobs and share gossip with their colleagues.

Perhaps the site’s best feature is its “Whisper Jobs” section, which “Ed” (the moniker for the unnamed editors who update the site’s job listings) says is purely based on word of mouth within the publishing industry in New York and around the country. I’m not based in the northeast and so I can’t verify whether every single one of the whisper jobs are accurate, but the site features job listings you won’t find anywhere else — certainly not on the major job search sites like Monster, Yahoo’s HotJobs and CareerBuilder.

The site also has plenty of additional features like its “Unsolicited Advice” section, which features article like “10 Things To Know Before You Interview” and “Ed’s Guide to Networking,” as well as advice on how to write thank-you’s following a job interview and salary surveys for a range of editor roles both in NYC and beyond.

While the New York focus of the site strikes this reader as a bit too parochial, it’s still well worth a visit for anyone looking for a job as an editor — and even if the job listings you find don’t lead directly to a hire, you’ll likely learn much more about the right way to find an editing position there than most any other site on the Web.

Learn more about “Ed” and his take on the industry at Ed2010.com.