Staff Editor, Special Projects

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Job Description

Newsroom Projects & Initiatives, a team dedicated to telling stories and building franchises using innovative and highly visual reporting techniques, is seeking a staff editor. The editor will assist with reporting and editing for one-off packages, ongoing series, and other upcoming work on the desk.  The staff editor will work with teams across the newsroom and have a wide range of responsibilities that include helping to conceive impactful packages, implementing workflows throughout a project or package, and helping with research needs for select projects. 

You are detail-oriented with experience with visual journalism, a great communicator, extremely organized and a self-starter able to work on a nimble, fast-paced team. Because this group works across beats, this person should be able to edit across a range of topics and in multiple storytelling formats. 

Responsibilities:

• You will coordinate with editors and other teams on building publication plans 

• You will write, research and edit for projects and series. 

• You communicate editorial story budgets for special projects and other editorial projects that span various departments 

• You will set meeting agendas and work with Project Managers to document next steps for editorial projects and process

• Implement workflows for editing process, documents resources and timelines, digital publication process 

• Submit digital and print content for approval within the newsroom (ex. Masthead, Standards) 

• Document project conception and vetting process of ideas pitched as new special projects with the help of dedicated project PMs

• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

• You will report to the Editor, Project and Collaborations

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years relevant editorial experience 

• Superb judgment and Project Management skills

• 5+ years of experience coordinating and aligning priorities with multiple teams

• Passion for The New York Times mission and commitment to be part of our innovation and growth

Preferred Qualifications:

• A collaborative approach to working on teams

• Positive attitude, proactively taking on all parts of a project, from ideation to publish

• Ability to meet deadlines and to adapt to a sometimes-unpredictable production environment

This position is represented by the NewsGuild of NY.

The annual base pay salary for this role is between $111,711.62 and $112,000.00.

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

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