Top Editor Jobs

Freelance Video Editor creating social, digital advertising, and web video assets from existing footage and licensed stock. Responsibilities include advanced editing, motion graphics, charts, text overlays, animation, and translating complex financial concepts into engaging visual narratives. The editor will collaborate remotely with an in-house creative team to support brand evolution and maintain visual consistency across platforms.

The Senior Editor will lead The Atlantic’s Science and Health coverage, overseeing staff writers and collaborating with editors to produce ambitious, compelling stories about science and its impact. Responsibilities include assigning and shaping magazine stories, editing breaking news and deeply reported projects, managing reporters, and guiding coverage across fields such as physics, biology, neuroscience, climate change, and geology. The role requires strong leadership, editorial judgment, scientific curiosity, and flexibility for occasional night, early-morning, and weekend work.

Senior Editor for The Atlantic’s Science and Health team, overseeing staff writers and collaborating with editors to produce high-impact stories on the politics of science and health. Responsibilities include assigning and shaping magazine stories, editing breaking news and deeply reported projects, managing reporters, and covering topics such as misinformation, AI, policy, regulation, academic conflicts, and medical breakthroughs. The role requires occasional night, early-morning, and weekend work.

Provides Khmer-to-English and English-to-Khmer translation and editing for official documents, including vital records, legal documents, certificates, and academic transcripts. Reviews accuracy, grammar, formatting, and consistency; protects confidential information; follows client instructions; and meets deadlines, including one-to-two-day turnaround requirements. This remote freelance role is assigned on an as-needed basis and requires independent work, U.S. citizenship, and completion of a Tier 1 background investigation.

Lead video editor responsible for producing long- and short-form content, motion graphics, promotional assets, and select design projects. The role involves hands-on editing, visual storytelling, AI-assisted content creation, developing templates and visual standards, and managing freelance creative contractors. The editor will collaborate with founders and internal teams to shape the company’s visual identity across video, social, web, and promotional channels.

Edit engaging video content for Beast Industries, making creative decisions that maximize audience retention across digital platforms. Applicants must submit a video they personally edited and screen-record a concise walkthrough explaining their editing choices, rationale, and potential improvements. Submissions should be hosted via an accessible unlisted YouTube or Loom link and kept to five minutes or less.

Reviews feature films and long-form content for broadcast and streaming standards, identifies required modifications, and creates compliant alternate versions. Performs picture and audio edits, captions and subtitle reconformation, timecode documentation, version control, asset tracking, and delivery coordination while preserving creative and technical quality. Manages multiple titles and deadlines in collaboration with QC and operations, applying current platform, broadcast, advertiser, and rating guidelines.

Edits and revises digital medical content for healthcare professionals, ensuring clinical accuracy, clarity, relevance, sourcing, and editorial compliance. Uses generative AI tools to improve content workflows while fact-checking outputs against primary sources. Collaborates with physicians, editors, program managers, marketing, and leadership; manages editorial production timelines, content calendars, image selection, and quality improvements.

Edits raw footage into polished English and Spanish videos aligned with brand standards and project goals. Translates and culturally adapts content, incorporates graphics, animation, sound effects, and music, and manages multiple projects through revisions and final approval. Collaborates with television, creative, marketing, and project teams to produce engaging multimedia content for diverse audiences across platforms.

Writes, edits, curates, and distributes breaking news across websites, apps, social media, streaming, and broadcast platforms. Responsibilities include copy editing for AP style, SEO optimization, story packaging, fact-checking, social listening, audience analytics, streaming and podcast coordination, and liaison work with newsroom and broadcast teams. The role requires strong news judgment, accuracy, speed, organization, and flexibility for round-the-clock shifts.

Edit short-form social videos and long-form YouTube content, handling cuts, transitions, motion graphics, sound design, color grading, and subtitles. Collaborate with the content team to follow creative briefs, repurpose recordings and interviews, meet tight deadlines, and provide creative input that improves engagement, retention, and brand consistency.

Edit short-form social videos and long-form YouTube content from raw footage through final post-production. Responsibilities include cutting, transitions, motion graphics, sound design, color grading, subtitles, repurposing interviews, and optimizing content for engagement and platform performance. Collaborate with the content team, follow creative briefs, meet tight deadlines, maintain consistent quality, and provide creative input on storytelling, pacing, hooks, and trends.

Lead editorial strategy and produce high-impact market content across podcasts, video, articles, and newsletters. Translate complex global markets and investing themes into accurate, compelling narratives, collaborate with senior leaders and financial experts, oversee multimedia production, present performance metrics, and use generative AI to improve research, drafting, editing, and distribution workflows.

Edit digital-first content including YouTube series, social videos, longform interviews, motion-graphics pieces, sizzle reels, and sponsored content. Responsibilities include narrative shaping, audio leveling, color correction, GFX integration, footage organization, platform-specific exports, and adherence to media workflows. The editor collaborates with producers, manages multiple deadlines, and works on-site in New York City.

The Assistant Editor will manage media delivery, project organization, and maintain a structured editing environment, supporting philanthropic projects.

Write and revise broadcast news scripts, monitor daily and breaking news, and edit video for newscasts and other programming. Operate nonlinear editing software, trim and assemble segments, transfer video files, meet deadlines, prioritize multiple assignments, and work a flexible schedule including early hours, late hours, weekends, and holidays.

Reviews, edits, and standardizes intelligence products for grammar, clarity, logic, formatting, classification markings, and compliance with IC and DoD publication standards. Collaborates with analysts and authors to resolve discrepancies, improve narrative organization, and incorporate revisions. Conducts final quality-control reviews before dissemination while managing multiple products, deadlines, and security requirements.

Writes and edits foreign policy explainers and digital content for general audiences. Responsibilities include copyediting, fact-checking, news monitoring, homepage curation, content pitching, newsletter and multimedia support, and collaboration with graphics and data teams. The role requires strong newsroom judgment, writing and editing skills, foreign policy knowledge, and the ability to work quickly in a deadline-driven environment.

Community newspaper editor responsible for generating story ideas, reporting breaking news, writing features and opinion pieces, taking photos, and publishing content to print, web, and social media. The role requires managing weekly news packages, developing community relationships, working under deadlines, and contributing to audience growth and revenue. Candidates should have media-management experience and a strong record of producing quality print and digital products. A journalism or English degree is preferred but not required.

Edit raw unscripted footage into compelling 2–3 minute short-form videos for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. Identify strong storylines, shape emotional arcs, create hooks and satisfying payoffs, and optimize pacing for audience retention. Use music, sound design, captions, graphics, and reaction shots while preserving authenticity. Collaborate with producers through revisions and final delivery, create alternate versions for testing, and stay current with short-form trends and platform best practices.

Write and edit timely market commentary and macroeconomic stories for Wealthfront’s Vested Interest newsletter. Develop written, audio, video, and social content across platforms including Substack, TikTok, and YouTube. Monitor financial news, generate content ideas, translate complex financial information for young professionals, collaborate with Social, Creative, Investment Research, Compliance, and Lifecycle teams, and evaluate distribution channels and content performance.

Edit short-form organic and paid social videos using creator footage, talking-head content, app visuals, B-roll, scripts, and motion assets. Create fast, platform-native edits for TikTok, Reels, Shorts, and X, collaborating on hooks, pacing, captions, and visual storytelling. Manage quick-turn, project-based freelance work and contribute to a growing content production pipeline.

Researches, writes, edits, and fact-checks technical reports, magazine features, manuals, newsletters, and research documents. Collaborates with engineers and technical staff to clarify complex concepts, ensures adherence to GPO and Chicago style standards, maintains Section 508 compliance, manages permissions, and oversees document quality, version control, and production through multiple edit cycles.

Leads the editorial lifecycle for high-stakes technical documentation, from outlining and substantive editing through fact checking, style compliance, copyright review, and web publication. Translates engineering terminology and raw data into authoritative agency materials, ensures technical accuracy and quality control, manages publication workflows, assigns staff tasks, and mentors junior editors. Requires an advanced degree, extensive supervisory and project management experience, and expert knowledge of the GPO Style Manual.

Edits and finalizes high-stakes technical documents, including research reports, procedures, brochures, summaries, schematics, and data tables. Translates engineering terminology and raw data into authoritative, accessible communications while conducting reference and fact checking and ensuring copyright compliance. Collaborates with engineers and developers, manages documents from outline through publication, and ensures adherence to agency requirements and the GPO Style Manual.