Senior News Editor

🕒 September 24

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $100k - $110k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📰 Journalist

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Newsweek is a global media organization that delivers news, analysis, and commentary across a wide range of topics including politics, technology, health, finance, and entertainment. It offers articles, insights, and updates on world events and issues, and provides a platform for opinion and debate. Newsweek is known for its publications both in print and online, serving a diverse audience with factual reporting and unique storytelling.

📋 Description

• Run the U.S. news desk during peak coverage hours, making final calls on framing, prioritization, and play • Distinguish between stories that advance public understanding and those that merely follow the pack • Kill weak or redundant stories and demand better replacements • Frame competitive national stories with clarity, originality, or analytical value • Rewrite leads, nut grafs, headlines, structure, sourcing, and tone • Turn raw field notes, transcripts, interviews, and exclusives into clean, analytical journalism • Perform rapid second-day and rolling rewrites as facts evolve • Make calls, confirm facts, chase documents, and close gaps as a desk reporter • Personally intervene on high-stakes or sensitive stories • Maintain elite newsroom standards and provide constructive feedback • Mentor reporters and junior editors • Take ownership when coverage underperforms • Work with audience teams to align performance goals with editorial ambition • Monitor competitive coverage and push Newsweek to outperform

🎯 Requirements

• 7–10+ years of experience at a high-level U.S. digital newsroom • Demonstrated record editing breaking news, exclusives, and enterprise reporting at speed • Exceptional news judgment • First-rate rewriting skills • Comfortable making consequential editorial decisions independently • Proven ability to handle sensitive and legally complex stories • Deep understanding of U.S. political, legal, and cultural dynamics • Calm, decisive leadership style under pressure

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