Assignment Editor – Contract

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

✏️ Editor

👻 Ghost score 15%

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The Weather Company

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

The Weather Company helps people and businesses around the world make more informed decisions and take action in the face of weather. With its deep industry expertise and highly accurate, high-volume weather data combined with advanced technology and AI, The Weather Company provides insights and solutions that harness the power of weather in a scalable, privacy-forward way. The world’s most accurate forecaster, the company serves hundreds of enterprise customers across media, advertising, aviation and more, and is trusted by hundreds of millions of monthly active users via digital properties from The Weather Channel and Weather Underground.

📋 Description

• Run the overnight and early-morning news agenda for North American audiences • Decide story leads, selection, framing, headlines, packaging, and placement • Test editorial packaging to grow engagement • Manage handoffs with the US desk, picking up open threads and handing off in-progress stories • Keep the site and app current and credible through breaking news, severe weather, and developing stories • Pick up outstanding assignments from the U.S. news team • Serve as the senior editorial decision-maker on shift and set publication standards • Maintain accuracy, quality, and voice under time pressure • Coordinate with the US newsroom, video, and product teams across time zones • Establish handoff processes for logging, flagging, and escalation • Represent the overnight window in planning for known events • Own overnight and early-morning engagement targets • Use analytics to guide timing, packaging, and story mix • Optimize headlines, alerts, and modules for the overnight audience

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in a newsroom, including significant time making live editorial decisions on shift • Strong editorial judgment and ability to run a desk and make final calls without a senior editor on shift • Experience coordinating across desks or time zones, with clean handoffs and no dropped threads • Comfort with audience analytics, including Chartbeat, Parse.ly, and Google Analytics • Familiarity with North American news and audiences, or demonstrable ability to get up to speed quickly • Self-directed and calm under pressure; able to work autonomously and maintain standards during breaking news • Eligible to work in the UK • Able to reliably cover the US overnight / early-morning window • Nice to have: fluency with current engagement and distribution tools • Nice to have: experience building and running workflows for a 24/7 or breaking-news operation • Nice to have: experience managing editorial talent across text and video

🏖️ Benefits

• Contract role • Remote UK work arrangement