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Assistant News Editor
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New York, NY, United States
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Assistant News Editor, The New Yorker
Company is renowned for provocative, influential, award-winning content across brands, across platforms, and across continents. We’re committed to attracting new talent to keep us at the top of our business. If you are looking to be part of a culture of excellence marked by journalistic integrity and superior design, we invite you to explore this career opportunity and see how your talent and aspirations might fit within Company.
Assistant News Editor, Company website
THE NEW YORKER
The New Yorker is seeking an energetic, digitally savvy editor with strong news judgment to help steer coverage online of politics, national news, and international affairs, and enhance our ability to respond to breaking news on nights and weekends.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Assign and edit a mixture of reportage, analysis, and commentary by staff writers, columnists, and other contributors.
• Generate story ideas and exercise creativity in how to cover the news intelligently and nimbly with a small but growing staff.
• Maintain New Yorker standards in editing rigor, accuracy, and fairness.
• Work collaboratively with the rest of the digital team, including editors, fact checkers, producers, photo editors, video editors, the multi-media team, and social team.
• Seek out freelance writers who might become regular online contributors to The New Yorker.
Requirements:
• Willingness to work a schedule that will provide greater editing coverage on nights and weekends.
• Proven history as a reporter/writer or editor, covering politics, national news, or international affairs.
• Ability to respond quickly to news and suggest useful reporting lines and interesting story ideas.
• Strong line-editing skills; able to work collaboratively with some of the finest writers in journalism.
• Be thoughtful about digital news coverage and how The New Yorker fits into the news ecosystem.
• The ability to work in a fast-moving news environment and juggle multiple stories.
• Adeptness at social media.
• Familiarity with The New Yorker, its style, and its writers.
About Company:
Company is a premier media company renowned for producing the highest quality content for the world's most influential audiences. Attracting more than 100 million consumers across its industry-leading print, digital and video brands, the company’s portfolio includes some of the most iconic titles in media: Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Brides, Self, GQ, GQ Style, The New Yorker, Company Traveler, Allure, Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, Epicurious, Wired, W, Golf Digest, Golf World, Teen Vogue, Ars Technica, The Scene, Pitchfork and Backchannel. The company’s newest division, Company Entertainment, was launched in 2011 to develop film, television and premium digital video programming.