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Senior Editor
The Atlantic. Oversee the daily distribution of The Atlantic’s journalism across the app, home page, newsletters, and social media platforms .
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Oversee the daily distribution of The Atlantic’s journalism across the app, home page, newsletters, and social media platforms
- Ensure high-quality, rapid promotion of stories, including breaking news, features, and social videos
- Directly supervise one or more audience editors
- Write, edit, and post presentation copy for Atlantic stories on all platforms
- Work with editors to maximize audience team initiatives, including newsletters, podcasts, video production, reader engagement, and evergreen recirculation
- Work with the Audience Insights team to test and evaluate performance across platforms, communicate insights, and sharpen best practices
- Support team operations, including liaising with other departments and leading newsroom presentations
- Work weekend, night, and early-morning shifts as needed
Requirements
What you’ll need- 10+ years of experience writing, editing, or operating news-branded social media accounts or digital platforms
- Previous management experience
- Scrupulous attention to detail, including writing structure, mechanics, grammar, and spelling
- Advanced editorial judgment
- Strong understanding of the media landscape, including emerging platforms
- Collegial, energetic, “yes and” approach to problem solving and creative endeavors
- Ability to manage time, communicate clearly both up and down management lines, accomplish discrete tasks and longer-term projects on deadline, and switch easily between different duties
- Critical thinking, attention to process, and appetite to experiment and explore
- Successful completion of reference checks
- Compliance with The Atlantic's COVID-19 vaccination policy
Benefits
Comp & perks- Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity
- COVID-19 vaccination policy; employees must be vaccinated against COVID-19, including subsequent boosters, with accommodation available for disability/medical contraindication or sincerely held religious belief