Times Opinion is hiring a Senior Editor to lead and edit the team behind Matter of Opinion.
The ideal candidate will have editing experience in both conversational and narrative formats. They will understand how to put together a compelling, engaging, but still entertaining and fundamentally funny editorial product. Candidates for this role should be intellectually omnivorous, ideologically open, and relentlessly collaborative. They should be enthusiastic managers and creative thinkers.
In this role, you’ll work with the show’s producers and its four hosts – Carlos Lozada, Lydia Polgreen, Michelle Cottle, and Ross Douthat – to dream up weekly conversations, some tied to the news and others pulled from the ether. You’ll help envision how those topics become full episodes, and you’ll guide producers in making sure that each taping yields a productive discussion. You’ll shape the final product, coaching producers toward smart, thoughtful cuts that maintain the casual sound of the show while upholding the editorial standards of Times Opinion. You will also help to edit other editorial products across Opinion.
Responsibilities:
- Work directly with the hosts to set the editorial direction for Matter of Opinion
- Manage a small team of producers to support their development and guide them through episode making, including editorial direction, conversational planning, prep, and post production.
- Edit episodes, including line edits and structural notes as needed
- Coordinate with the audience team to maximize the reach and impact of the work.
- Oversee regular editorial meetings.
- Lead headline discussions and make final headline decisions.
- Review fact-check and make final calls.
- Give editorial feedback to producers on edits, headline-writing, show copy writing.
- Train new producers on the show’s workflow and preparation process, which includes giving feedback and developing training materials.
- Play an important role in defining and executing show strategy; establish and regularly measure progress to goals.
- Work cross functionally with the Opinion desk and the hosts’ editors to look for opportunities to collaborate.
- Work closely and collaboratively with Audio leadership on larger goals per editorial, operations, staffing and audience growth.
- Occasionally edit non-narrated short audio essays.
Basic Qualifications:
- 7+ years in a news environment.
- 5+ years editing longform content, in audio or text or video.
- Experience managing both the workflow and professional development of direct reports.
- Solid news judgment.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, deadlines and time-management.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience editing comedic or entertaining content, experience landing comedic timing
- Familiarity editing or working with high-profile talent
- A deep understanding of politics and/or history
- Experience balancing competing editorial interests or priorities
- Familiarity working with other departments
The annual base pay salary for this role is between $138,000.00 and $157,000.00.
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