ProPublica

Editor

• Manage research reporters working on investigative stories and directly supervise team reporters
• Serve as an escalation point for complex reporting challenges, tight deadlines, and sensitive sourcing or verification issues
• Manage and prioritize incoming research requests
• Partner with the research editor to assign work, shape strategy, and ensure consistent research support across desks, beats, and regions
• Provide hands-on editorial guidance on records strategies, advanced sourcing, database use, OSINT techniques, and verification
• Coach text editors and reporters and identify newsroom training opportunities
• Collaborate with reporters and editors to define research goals, frame investigations, and connect information across large datasets
• Strengthen research workflows, documentation, organization, and best practices
• Build relationships with editors, reporters, partner newsrooms, and specialty teams
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and performance feedback for distributed research staff
• Assist with management and administration of research tools and resources and help inform contract negotiations
• Evaluate new technologies, databases, and applications relevant to investigative reporting
• Promote a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive team culture

Deputy Research Editor