Copy Editor, Kaiser Health News

KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation), the nonprofit health policy analysis, polling, and journalism organization, is seeking a Copy Editor to join the staff of Kaiser Health News (KHN), the national newsroom producing and distributing in-depth journalism about health issues across the country. KHN has a vibrant and ambitious staff based in Washington, DC, California, and across the South, Midwest, and Mountain West. We need a Copy Editor who will work collaboratively with KHN reporters and editors maintaining quality, applying outstanding knowledge of grammar, punctuation, and English usage, and following both Associated Press and in-house style. The editor should excel at finding elegant wording solutions to occasionally wonkish prose, crafting engaging headlines, fact-checking, Googling, participating in “style summits,” and mastering SEO. They will track stories from Word docs or Google Docs and upload them into WordPress for publication, tending to SEO and display type. KHN covers an incredibly broad number of topics, so we aren’t looking for an expert in health care policy, politics, or business. We are looking for a confident person who is not afraid to challenge editors and reporters about wording, facts, and even the general thrust of articles. But KHN has a lovely work environment, so we want someone who has a pleasant bedside manner as they work to improve copy. We need someone with word skills but also organizational skills to keep the copy flow moving.