E&E News is looking for a sharp-eyed copy editor to work evenings as part of our fast-paced newsroom. The ideal candidate will have professional experience copy editing and web producing for a news organization. You’ll work with copy editors; the art desk; reporters located across the U.S.; and the editors of E&E News PM, E&E Daily, Climatewire and Energywire. You’ll double-check headlines, hone daily stories and features, place photos and graphics, and organize emails that will hit subscribers’ inboxes the next morning. You will have a strong command of grammar and AP style and an interest for the policy and politics that surrounds energy and environmental issues. Working from a remote location is OK.
What You’ll Need:
- 2+ years of copy-editing experience.
- B.A/B.S or equivalent.
- Experience with content management systems (CMS) is a big plus.
- Familiarity in our issues and publications is also a plus.
- Collegial spirit and joy in working an old-fashioned, afternoon-to-evening newspaper shift Sunday through Thursday.
We are driven by our values. We are relentless contributors, disruptors, collaborators, and talent cultivators. Our culture is defined by grit, total integrity, and a prioritization on innovation.
To apply, go here.
Chris RoushChris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.