General Assignment News Desk Weekend Editor

The Washington Post is looking for a journalist to guide the General Assignment news desk on weekend evenings and contribute as an editor or writer on weekdays. The GA desk covers breaking news stories in collaboration with Politics, the America desk, Health & Science, Business, Foreign and beyond. It is also a newsroom leader in delivering our live updates, the rapidly refreshing news tickers often featured on our homepage. GA writers also produce richly reported and artfully written same-day stories that appeal to a wide range of readers. The ideal candidate should have experience writing or line editing on deadline for a major publication, as well as working with reporters on story selection and elevation. The editor must be collaborative, willing to work with multiple desks around the Post newsroom and able to play the role that is most needed by the team on any given day. The ability to write news alerts and run our live-updates file is also essential. This position is based in our Washington newsroom.