News Content Editor – Arabic Speaker (6 months contract & Part time Position 50%)

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Taboola is the world’s leading content discovery platform, serving 360B recommendations to over 1B unique visitors each month on the web’s most innovative publisher sites, including NBC, USA Today, The Weather Channel, Tribune and hundreds more. Taboola is working in partnerships with Samsung, Huawei, ZTE, and some other smartphone manufacturers around the world, to create a new feature that will display recommended links on their phones.

We are hiring a freelance editor to focus on content intended for our Middle east markets, specifically focusing on Turkey. In this assignment, you will be responsible for reviewing news, and articles, and selecting items to include in the news feed offered to end users.

You must be well-versed in the Turkish realm of news, entertainment, politics, and popular culture, preferably an experienced journalist or editor from a digital media organization that focuses on a largely Turkish audience.

Responsibilities

The editor/reviewer will be responsible for selecting articles to ensure news feed offered to end users complies with the following guidelines:

• Content policy
• Legal requirements
• Recency
• Relevance
• Variety
• Vertical/category diversity
• Diversity of sources
  
  

• Technologically savvy
• Able to work independently, with clear goals but little supervision
• Arabic, plus English (speaking, reading, writing).
• Deep familiarity with culture and current affairs in Arab Countries.
  
  

• If you ask our employees what they love about Taboola they will tell you that here they are able to discover their best professional self, explore where they can grow to, and learn from and together with smart and talented people
• We work with some of the biggest names in the business. Our clients include Bloomberg, NBC, Wells Fargo, and ESPN.
• Taboola offers very generous benefits.