Verifier, Sub Editor

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🇦🇺 Australia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✏️ Editor

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DOWJONES INVESTMENTS

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DOWJONES INVESTMENTS is a media and marketing services organization operating digital and print news brands and audience networks across Australia. It provides journalism, digital newspapers, magazines, audio content, and data-driven advertising and growth solutions to help brands reach millions of readers and consumers. The company also offers strategic marketing, audience segmentation, and advertising products for business clients and advertisers.

📋 Description

• Serve as the final editorial checkpoint before publication • Edit, refine, and rewrite copy to ensure accuracy and integrity • Verify news copy against primary source documents, especially local council documents and reports • Make rapid, independent decisions about what to cut and retain • Maintain a steady editorial workflow and manage story-approval quotas • Assess English word choice, sentence structure, paragraph flow, meaning, and underlying assumptions • Identify, elevate, and sharpen news hooks • Apply News Corp Australia editorial and style guidelines • Apply Australian media law knowledge to mitigate defamation risks • Collaborate with reporters and editors to prepare journalism for publication across the national news network

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated professional experience as a reporter, sub-editor, or in a similar rigorous editorial capacity • Exceptional attention to detail and meticulous, investigative fact-verification approach • Ability to make rapid editorial cuts, rewrite copy directly, and act as final authority before publication • Advanced understanding of English grammar, tone, and structural editing • Working knowledge of Australian media law and defamation principles • Basic computer literacy • Effective collaboration and time-management skills • Proven experience meeting targets and working independently, remotely or in an office environment • Experience in council reporting or strong interest in local government and council affairs highly desirable • Passion for grassroots community journalism

🏖️ Benefits

• Highly flexible working arrangements: remote work from anywhere in Australia or from major offices • Options for full-time, part-time, or job-share structures • Competitive remuneration package • Career development and learning opportunities across national and global networks • Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family • Exclusive offers across a range of products and services • Health and wellbeing advice, support, and facilities, including onsite gyms at Adelaide, Brisbane, and Sydney offices • Parental leave • Birthday leave • Volunteer leave • Career break • Compassionate leave • Financial wellbeing support • Tailored development opportunities, including leadership programs • Volunteer opportunities and company-organised charity drives • Employee-resource groups • Multi-faith quiet rooms and parents’ rooms • Accessible and supportive recruitment process with adjustments or accommodations

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