BuzzFeed News is seeking a smart, capable and dogged Deputy Technology Editor in our San Francisco bureau to take our technology coverage to the next level. This is a highly ambitious bureau, with an amazing team of reporters and editors. The successful candidate will share that drive and ambition, and will report to the bureau’s managing editor.
You’ll help reporters develop beats, cultivate sources, break news, and advance stories. You should be able to poke holes in stories and then stitch them up again better than before. You’re great at crafting headlines, deks and nut grafs. You will have a flawless eye for copy and be able to turn stories around quickly. You’re both detail-oriented, and able to see big picture.
We hope to build a team that is diverse in many ways, and want to cast a wide net. Editors who have not previously covered tech are encouraged to apply. We offer competitive compensation and a stock option program.
Responsibilities
- Edit writers in the bureau and work with them to develop story ideas
- Develop breakout story treatment ideas
- Assist managing editor in day-to-day workflow of the tech team
- Manage and assemble weekly story budget
- Coordinate event coverage
- Promote stories across social platforms.
Requirements
- Proven track record of excellent editing
- Familiarity with conventional magazine-style editing and publishing, as well as a curiosity about finding new approaches and how stories work specifically for non-traditional publishing formats.
- Comfort with editing many different types of writing and writers
- The patience and the interest to work with a type of online journalism that’s changed a lot in a short period of time and will continue to do so.
- You should be good at Twitter.
To apply, go here.
