Editor, Politics, Policy, and Ideas

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Vox Media

💵 $74k-$120k
📍Remote - United States

Summary

Join Vox Media's Politics, Policy, and Ideas team as a Temporary Editor for a four-month assignment! This full-time, remote position involves conceptualizing, assigning, and editing various content formats, including explainers and features. Collaborate with other editors to determine coverage priorities and explore multiplatform opportunities. The ideal candidate possesses 3-5 years of editing and management experience, strong communication skills, and a deep understanding of Vox's editorial strategy. You will work closely with the Editorial Director and Executive Editor to ensure high-quality, distinctive journalism. This role offers a chance to contribute to a leading modern media company with a commitment to diversity and inclusion. The position is part of the Vox Media Union, represented by the Writers Guild of America, East.

Requirements

  • 3-5 years experience as an editor and manager
  • Strong editing and communication skills
  • Excellent editorial judgment
  • Concise and clever headline writing skills
  • A strong understanding of Vox’s editorial strategy and an ability to make sure our written work aligns with our strategy
  • Analytical rigor. We want an editor with an ability to pressure-test our own writers’ arguments and steelman opposing ones. We want an editor who can confidently edit pieces that explain ideas and/or stake out intellectual claims, and who is eager to assign and edit pieces that embrace nuance and complicate narratives without sacrificing clarity
  • A good motor – an ability to jump nimbly from editing same-day turnaround stories to “Day 2” analyses that might be heavier lifts
  • Interest in and/or familiarity with a wide range of topics, from domestic politics and culture to international conflicts and global issues – and everything in between!

Responsibilities

  • Conceptualize, assign, and edit pieces rooted in reporting and research, including explainers, argument-driven essays, and features
  • Work with editors across the Vox newsroom to find opportunities to elevate writers’ work on other platforms, including audio, video, and social video
  • Stay on top of the news, both foreign and domestic, to find the angles that will lead to truly distinctive analytical, contextual, and deeply informed journalism
  • Collaborate with the Editorial Director and other editors to set daily coverage priorities for Politics-Policy-Ideas
  • May include management responsibilities

Benefits

  • This job is remote
  • This is a temporary position
  • This job may be benefits-eligible, depending on whether hired as full-time or part-time

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