Senior News Editor, Current Events

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🔥 18 hours ago

🏛️ District of Columbia, New York – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $90k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📰 Journalist

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Dotdash Meredith

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2017

📣 Marketing

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏥 Healthcare

Marketing • Food & Beverage • Healthcare

Dotdash Meredith is America's largest digital and print publisher, known for creating trusted content across a wide range of topics including health, finance, beauty, and home. With a commitment to providing the experiences people want and the answers they need, Dotdash Meredith reaches nearly 200 million people each month through its various brands such as PEOPLE, Investopedia, Serious Eats, and Byrdie. The company offers innovative tools such as the Intent Targeting Tool to enhance its digital advertising capabilities. Dotdash Meredith is recognized for its deep expertise in editorial content and premium publishing, making it a trusted source for both inspiration and essential information.

📋 Description

• Coordinate PEOPLE’s personality-focused national affairs coverage with the Senior Editor. • Lead digital coverage for PEOPLE’s Current Events vertical. • Lead coverage of key events and manage routine daily news and breaking news situations. • Help develop strategy and content opportunities around trends, first families, national figures, and topical issues. • Mine social media and other sources for new and exclusive stories. • Find, oversee, assign, and edit a large volume of stories daily. • Collaborate with the legal team on vetting stories. • Strategize coverage, make assignments, and oversee execution using the editorial calendar, data, and analytics. • Write as needed and perform other assigned duties. • Oversee the digital footprint of large-scale event coverage. • Strategize and prepare for news moments ahead of time. • Ideate key second-beat and breakout posts to leverage breaking and trending news stories.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in journalism or communications, related field or equivalent training and/or experience. • Minimum 7 years experience working in a high volume, digital news operation, with proven leadership experience. • Strong organizational skills and a proven ability to work independently. • Strong writing and editing skills, impeccable journalistic standards, and attention to detail. • Ability to respond quickly to breaking news and understand how to prioritize urgent vs. non urgent content. • An understanding of SEO and analytics. • A proven ability to drive traffic. • Strong management skills. • Passion for and knowledge of national affairs-related issues, and a fluency in the media landscape. • Ability to work in the United States, as verified through the federal E-Verify program.

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonuses • Short- and long-term incentives • Medical coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • Prescription drug coverage • Unlimited paid time off (PTO) • Adoption or surrogate assistance • Donation matching • Tuition reimbursement • Basic life insurance • Basic accidental death & dismemberment • Supplemental life insurance • Supplemental accident insurance • Commuter benefits • Short term and long term disability • Health savings accounts • Flexible spending accounts • Family care benefits • Generous 401K savings plan with a company match program • 10-12 paid holidays annually • Generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents) • Pet insurance • Accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage • Life and disability insurance