Story Editor

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🕒 February 6

🌵 Arizona, Colorado, +7 more states – Remote

🌵 Arizona – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🎰 Nevada – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🚗 Michigan – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote 🎸 Tennessee – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $95k - $100k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Votebeat

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1 - 10 employees

📱 Media

🤝 Non-profit

Media • Non-profit

Votebeat is a nonprofit, nonpartisan civic news organization that produces in-depth local and national reporting on elections, voting processes, redistricting, election law, and misinformation. It operates regional newsrooms and publishes investigative and explanatory stories, newsletters, and resources to inform voters, hold officials accountable, and protect the integrity of the vote. Votebeat funds its journalism through donations and sponsorships and focuses on practical, community-level election coverage across multiple U. S. states.

📋 Description

• Line editing stories from Civic News Company’s Votebeat and Chalkbeat • Making sure stories incorporate regional or national context and are balanced, compelling, properly sourced • Ensuring that stories are precise and clear, read smoothly, and adhere to AP and Civic News style • Attending daily and weekly planning meetings • Providing editorial support to bureau chiefs and managing editors • Inputting and proofing stories in our CMS and occasionally helping with homepage curation and photo uploading • Providing one-on-one coaching and mentoring for reporters when needed

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years experience in daily journalism • Expertise in story structure, line editing, and copy editing • Experience working in a CMS • Stellar news judgment • Strong interpersonal skills with a knack for working with early career and experienced reporters and collaborating with other editors • A demonstrable interest in U.S. public education and voting rights • Journalism experience in New York, Denver, Indianapolis, Michigan, Memphis, Chicago, Newark, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin, or Texas • Fluency in Spanish

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance • Time off that truly supports rest, including 20 days of PTO, a paid one-week recess, 5 sick days, 3 floating holidays, and 12 paid holidays in 2026 • Retirement support through a 401(k) with a 4% employer match that is immediately vested • 100% paid parental leave: 18 weeks fully paid, plus a 2-week part-time return-to-work ramp-up • Flexible Spending Plan for eligible medical or childcare expenses • Annual professional development stipend • Employer-provided life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage • Monthly reimbursement for cell phone and internet expenses