Assistant Managing Editor

🕒 August 7

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $104.8k - $174.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

✏️ Editor

👻 Ghost score 6%

What it means: how likely this posting is sitting open without active hiring.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.How we score it: age, reposts, open roles vs team size, how fast jobs close, and whether pay is listed.Fine print: an estimate from public data, not a judgment of the company. Real jobs can score high, so treat it as a hint, not a fact.

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RELX

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

Consulting • Healthcare • Insurance

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. The company focuses on enabling its clients to make better decisions, improve results, and enhance productivity by leveraging advanced technology and data. RELX serves various sectors, including Risk, Scientific, Technical & Medical, Legal, and Exhibitions, by offering specialized information and analytical tools that facilitate critical decision-making. The company is committed to corporate responsibility and delivering societal benefit through its products by contributing to scientific advancement, legal justice, and effective market transactions.

📋 Description

• Lead and manage a team of data reporters and editors. • Set standards for reporting, writing, and production across data-driven series. • Edit data journalism for accuracy, clarity, fairness, and narrative strength. • Develop and pitch story and series ideas. • Guide projects from concept through publication with reporters, editors, and graphics staff. • Coach and develop reporters and editors in data skills and writing. • Own the editorial quality and integrity of the team's output. • Partner with survey and research specialists to ensure accurate, well-sourced reporting. • Coordinate cross-functional collaboration so stories publish on time. • Help develop new data-driven series, identify valuable datasets, and shape surveys and research.

🎯 Requirements

• 7–10+ years of relevant newsroom experience. • Strong track record in data-driven or investigative reporting and editing. • Demonstrated leadership or team management experience in a newsroom. • Sharp editorial judgment and strong editing skills, especially with data-heavy stories. • Comfort working with data of varying quality and completeness. • Ability to identify when numbers do not add up. • Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex concepts to diverse audiences. • Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across teams. • Experience editing or producing recurring data series or investigative projects preferred. • Familiarity with R or Python preferred. • Experience with data visualization techniques preferred. • Legal industry reporting or research experience preferred. • Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously preferred. • Degree in journalism, public policy, political science, economics, statistics, or a related field preferred.

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual incentive bonus • Wellbeing initiatives • Shared parental leave • Study assistance • Country specific benefits • Disability and hiring-process accommodations