Climate Science Editor

The Boston Globe is hiring a Climate Science Editor to cover the climate crisis, directly overseeing a team of three reporters and working collaboratively across the entire newsroom to drive an urgent public conversation in our city and region. This person will be instrumental in highlighting complex scientific concepts related to carbon management, climate change, renewable energy, and sustainability practices. The editor will be responsible for conceiving and editing stories that cast the crisis as a matter of urgent public interest and bring the issue to readers in fresh, creative, and meaningful ways. This position will put a premium on original thinking, accountability reporting, and an eye for good storytelling.

The position is part of a newsroom-wide push for climate coverage that reduces the scale of the global crisis, viewing it through a sharply focused regional lens. Highlighting the obstacles that Boston and New England face in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, examining emerging solutions, and holding leaders to account will be a core mission. The climate team will shine a light on social justice issues related to climate, including the unequal effect on neighborhoods and communities. In every instance, this editor will find ways to make ambitious climate stories resonate with a broad audience using data, visuals, and narrative forms of storytelling.