Story Editor

The digital edition of the award-winning current affairs magazine The Week is looking for a story editor to join our team. The Week’s website selects the best news articles, features and opinion pieces from media outlets across the globe and weaves them together into comprehensive features and newsletters.

What you'll be doing…

As Story Editor at The Week Digital, you'll be editing website articles, newsletter content and social media posts, where accuracy and quality control are critical.

You'll also be assisting the U.S. executive and deputy editors—plus covering team members as needed, including the deputy editor, social media editor and editorial assistant—with fielding pitches, assigning stories, overseeing daily content production, giving feedback to writers, compiling and scheduling magazine content for the website, and organizing daily puzzles, quizzes and crosswords.

You'll be working with writers and other editors to implement The Week's unique multisource style across all digital products, building and editing daily and weekly newsletters and writing occasional articles as needed.

Experience that will put you ahead of the curve…

Excellent line editing, copyediting, writing, proofreading and organizational skills.
Track record of editing digital content and using content management systems.
Knowledge and understanding of U.S. and international current affairs, as well as an interest in everything from politics and business to science and culture.
Familiarity with The Week’s approach to news.
Ability to be nimble and flexible around changing deadlines and daily tasks.
Experience at a U.S. news publisher.
College degree, with journalism degree a plus.

What's in it for you…

We have a number of awesome perks available to our staff. We offer huge opportunities to learn and develop, whether through professional qualifications, exposure to incredible business projects or informal lunch & learns, hosted by your colleagues. We have a fantastic culture where we really do care about our people and want everyone to succeed. Varied roles mean you’re not pigeonholed into one finite area but get the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills and experience.

Additional benefits include health Insurance; ranging from medical to dental and even vision care, 401k match.

And to top it all off, not only do we offer unlimited holiday because we trust you to manage your workload and time but we also offer a share in our success whereby every member of staff receives a profit pool bonus at the end of our financial year.

Internal job family level E6

Please note, the salary range for this position is $57,000 -$58,500