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News Editor
Atlantic Media
New York, NY, United States
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Quartz’s news editor collaborates with our editors and reporters to produce coverage with bracing creativity and ambition.
You will be mostly focused on planning and assignments, and be responsible for our daily editorial and production flow.
This editor will possess an obsessive interest in news and compulsion to find the most original and smart approaches for tackling it. You will have a keen eye for those stories that will appeal to Quartz’s global audience. You will see the interconnectedness of things, and appreciate the value of approaching stories through the lenses of multiple Quartz obsessions.
Each day, through your work, you will demonstrate a deep understanding of strategies and tactics for producing quality daily journalism that finds a broad readership online. Specifically, you will ensure that editors are aware of stories and events of import to their coverage areas.
You will work with them and their teams to brainstorm ideas, help them think through angles, and apply an obsessions-based approach to their coverage. You will have a keen sense of the social conversation and how Quartz can lend its voice to contribute to that conversation in an intelligent and thoughtful way.
The news editor will also be responsible for coordinating coverage of big news events, whether they’re breaking stories like the Paris bombings, or scheduled events like the Brexit vote or the Rio Olympics. When appropriate, you will ensure an editor has been tasked to lead coverage efforts, and support them as needed.
You will regularly be involved in editing stories filed from across the newsroom. You are also encouraged to have your own areas of intellectual/journalistic interest, and write / create regularly, as time allows.
You will liaise with your colleagues around the US and on other continents. You will ensure there is effective communication of coverage plans across time zones and in the case of big news events.
Across Atlantic Media, generally, the firm looks for two “pillar gifts” in its candidates. In all of us, these are more aspirational than actual, but they are central in our intentions.
1. Force of Intellect - Atlantic Media seeks a discipline and rigor of thought as manifested, often, in exceptional academic performance and, later, success in a professional environment.
2. Spirit of Generosity - Equally, Atlantic Media seeks what we term a spirit of generosity – a natural disposition towards service and selfless conduct.
Atlantic Media is an EOE of Minorities/Women/Vets/Disability.