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Online News Director
Condé Nast
New York, NY, United States
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The New Yorker is seeking an energetic, digitally savvy editor, with strong news judgment, to steer coverage on its digital platforms of politics, national news, and international affairs .
Primary Responsibilities:
• Assign and edit a mixture of commentary and reporting by New Yorker staff writers and a stable of newyorker.com columnists and writers.
• Generate story ideas and exercise creativity in how to smartly and nimbly cover the news with a small staff.
• Oversee the work of one other editor.
• Maintain New Yorker standards in editing rigor, accuracy, and fairness.
• Help conceive and lead the news report and work collaboratively with the rest of the digital team, including editors, producers, photo editors, video editors, and fact-checkers.
• Seek out freelance writers who might become regular contributors to newyorker.com.
Requirements:
• Proven history as an editor or reporter/writer covering politics, national news, and/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 newyorker.com fits into the news eco-system.
• The ability to work in a fast-moving news environment and juggle multiple stories.
• Adeptness with social-media.
• Familiarity with The New Yorker, its style, and its writers.