Central Desk Editor

POLITICO is seeking a sharp and energetic editor to join our Central Editing Desk. Are you an editor with a passion for mentoring early-career colleagues? You may be a great fit for this role. Created only a few months ago, Central Editing is a versatile desk providing editing support across all our teams and platforms. You will add immediate impact by bringing experience to the desk while helping develop junior colleagues as we build a team that adds strong and flexible editing capacity to the newsroom.

The Central Editing Desk is staffed 7 days per week, 5:30 a.m. to midnight on weekdays. This editor will likely work afternoon and evening hours, when editing demand is highest, and potentially one weekend day.

What You’ll Do

• Edit a wide range of content for POLITICO’s consumer and Pro subscriber audiences, including breaking news stories, liveblogs, quick-turn enterprise pieces, daily newsletters and long-form deep dives across all our digital platforms, applying consistent high standards while understanding the needs of each platform.
• Collaborate daily with reporters, editors and multimedia teams to ensure smooth and speedy publishing.
• Optimize content for digital platforms and search, review choice of photos and other multimedia, and assist in writing and reviewing headlines, decks and photo captions.
• Work with the audience team to implement audience strategy best practices.
• Act as a backup editor supporting any of our teams across the newsroom.
• Help train new Central Desk editors and mentor junior editors.
  
  

What You’ll Need

• 3+ years of relevant editing experience.
• Rigorous commitment to fair-minded, nonpartisan journalism.
• Strong organization and communication skills and ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities and juggle multiple tasks in a fast-paced newsroom.
• Experience in digital publishing and content management systems.
• Working knowledge of AP Style.
  
  

This role is based in our Arlington, Virginia, headquarters. To apply, please submit a resume and cover letter.

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About Us.

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Cabinet secretaries and Ministers start their mornings with our analysis. CEOs shape strategy around our reporting. Advocacy leaders rely on our insights to move policy. We deliver the straightforward facts and clear-eyed analysis they need to navigate the most complex political landscape of our lifetimes.

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Innovation has always been a core tenet of our story. At launch, we bet that depth would trump scale, that talent would trump traffic, and that politics would become central to modern life. In 2011, we made another bet and launched POLITICO Pro to help decision-makers understand the business of government, transforming both how they shape government action and the business of journalism itself.

These bets have made POLITICO the most successful digital news startup of its generation and the indispensable resource for leaders who shape the future. Today, we are a rarity in media: a growing, profitable, and sustainable news organization.

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