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Deputy Breaking News Editor
Newsweek
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $70,000 - $80,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Work with Breaking News Editors in the UK and US and other senior editors to deliver fast, smart, accurate and fair coverage of news
- Find, produce, edit, publish and build up breaking news stories and live blogs from scratch
- Commission occasionally and cover for the Breaking News Editor when needed
- Use technology and tools to get faster, better and more prolific
- Set up a system of monitoring, planning and pre-writing to anticipate news
- Manage assigning, editing and publishing within the team with appropriate quality controls; avoid clickbait
- Develop live blog operation, creating highly engaging content on the most interesting and important stories
- Perform any other reasonable duties to meet the needs of the business
Requirements
- Minimum of 3 plus years' experience in editing capacity
- Experience working in a fast-paced digital newsroom
- Bachelors degree in journalism
- Excellent SEO and visual storytelling skills
- Ability to work both collaboratively and independently
- Ability to work East Coast hours across four rotating Monday–Friday shifts (7am-4pm, 9pm-6pm, 11am-8pm, 1pm-10pm)
