Photo Editor, National

A Photo Editor for The New York Times should possess a creative eye, an elevated aesthetic, sharp technical skills and sound journalistic judgment to join a team creating photographs for news, features and enterprise stories for on- and off-platform publishing. The primary duties of the job are to conceptualize and assign photography for the National report, and to select and publish images for multiple platforms of The New York Times. You will assign and research a wide array of news and feature photographs, working productively with staff photographers, freelance photographers, wire services, agencies and all other sources of pictures, as well as editors, designers, and reporters in the newsroom. You have a strong demonstrable passion for photography, journalism and visual storytelling of all kinds, and you possess a broad knowledge of the current photographic landscape. You are a team player and a good communicator, and will initiate and develop ideas for pictures and picture stories. You are comfortable with change and be able to work well in a collaborative and fast-paced environment. Excellent news judgment, and a firm sense of journalistic ethics are both essential, as is knowledge of photographic usage and copyright issues.