Job Description:
This role is based in Canberra, Australia.
"Playbooks” are POLITICO’s signature products. We're seeking a hands-on editor responsible for overseeing Canberra Playbook workflows.
As the traffic controller of a small, high intensity team, your goal is to ensure multiple Playbook products worth opening are delivered on-time and to POLITICO’s high standards.
You will be part of a global network of more than 100 editors and your efforts will help define POLITICO’s presence in Australia, so that we become required reading across Parliament House, embassies and boardrooms.
Who You Are:
- Someone who can improve copy quickly and decisively
- Someone with news judgement who understand how that news fits into a product framework
- Comfortable operating in a startup-style environment with limited resources
- Able to push reporters to be better without slowing them down
- Deep interest in politics and policy
- Experience with newsletters, live formats, and/or audio is a plus
What You'll Do:
- Provide the final edit for Canberra Playbook (AM + PM)
- Shape the editorial voice, structure and daily priorities
- Coordinate a small team of reporters and writers to prevent blind spots and duplication
- Work closely with global POLITICO teams to integrate international coverage, and coherence with other Playbooks
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Let’s keep in touch. You can view our list of open positions here. We hope to see your application soon!
About Us.
POLITICO illuminates the forces shaping global power. Since 2007, we have delivered intelligence that anticipates tomorrow's headlines, not reports on yesterday's news. As politics has increasingly become the defining force of our era, our work has never been more vital.
Cabinet secretaries and Ministers start their mornings with our analysis. CEOs shape strategy around our reporting. Advocacy leaders rely on our insights to move policy. We deliver the straightforward facts and clear-eyed analysis they need to navigate the most complex political landscape of our lifetimes.
Our 1,100+ publishing professionals across the world's key democratic capitals—Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Sacramento, and New York—form the world's premier politics and policy newsroom. We tell the story of how power really works by explaining who wields it and how they plan to exercise it, connecting dots others miss and delivering scoops from sources others don't even know exist.
Innovation has always been a core tenet of our story. At launch, we bet that depth would trump scale, that talent would trump traffic, and that politics would become central to modern life. In 2011, we made another bet and launched POLITICO Pro to help decision-makers understand the business of government, transforming both how they shape government action and the business of journalism itself.
These bets have made POLITICO the most successful digital news startup of its generation and the indispensable resource for leaders who shape the future. Today, we are a rarity in media: a growing, profitable, and sustainable news organization.
POLITICO is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, a family-owned transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York. Axel Springer is dedicated to shaping the future of journalism in the free world, believing that a free and informed society is essential to democracy. The company’s guiding principles - first articulated as The Essentials by founder Axel Springer in the aftermath of World War II - remain a cornerstone of the company’s foundation today. Learn more about Axel Springer.
Posting date:
2026-05-29Title:
Canberra Playbook EditorSkills Required
- Ability to improve copy quickly and decisively
- Strong news judgement and understanding of product frameworks
- Comfortable operating in a fast, startup-style environment with limited resources
- Experience managing or coordinating reporters and writers to prevent duplication
- Deep interest in politics and policy
- Experience with newsletters, live formats, and/or audio
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is set at 24 weeks fully paid for all family expansions in the U.S., codified for newsroom roles in the PEN Guild contract. This is highlighted as unusually generous in the U.S. media context.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO and flexible time off, with paid sick days and holidays, are offered. A remote work program is available in some roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Core coverage includes medical, dental, vision and mental-health/EAP support alongside disability and life insurance. Benefit listings indicate a comprehensive lineup across key health areas.
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