Copy Editor

Summary

Join The Verge's ambitious team as a sharp, thoughtful copy editor, ensuring high editorial standards across various platforms. You will be the final check before publication, guaranteeing accuracy, clarity, and inclusivity. This role involves managing the style guide, copy editing across multiple formats (website, channels, podcasts, videos, newsletters), collaborating on special projects, and co-writing internal newsletters. The ideal candidate is a language expert with a strong commitment to accuracy and collaboration. This remote position requires East Coast work hours and offers benefits eligibility.

Requirements

• Minimum three years’ experience in copy editing, preferably for a digital-first news organization
• A commitment to the highest editorial standards of accuracy, clarity, and inclusivity
• The ability to work quickly and collaboratively under tight deadlines amid a busy news environment
• A sharp eye for mistakes in grammar, spelling, and punctuation

Responsibilities

• Manage and update The Verge’s style guide, which maintains guidance on tone, voice, and language use across all published work. This includes producing topical guidance for newsworthy moments
• Copy edit text on our website, channels, podcasts, and videos from a large team of reporters, producers, and freelancers. This includes editing our weekly paid newsletters, Command Line and Notepad
• Serve as a stakeholder in our ambitious special projects, working closely with The Verge’s managing editor and deputy editors on production
• Co-write The Verge’s internal newsletter, ensuring language guidelines and standards are clearly communicated and enforced across our wide team of writers and editors
• Copy edit and fact-check a variety of off-platform copy, including brand marketing, events promotion, and print projects
• Work closely with editorial leadership to develop, QA, and uphold standards across written, visual, and audio content

Preferred Qualifications

• A strong interest in topics The Verge covers, including technology, internet culture, transportation, and science
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively; excellent communication skills
• Experience in fact-checking, editing data visualization, or performing sensitivity reads

Benefits

• This is a permanent, full-time position
• This job is benefits-eligible
• This role is a part of the Vox Media Union, represented by the Writers Guild of America, East
• Remote work