FT Weekend Magazine seeks a deputy editor

FT Weekend Magazine is seeking an exceptional editor to work on some of the FT’s highest-profile journalism. This is a key position in a busy department, requiring an editor with strong storytelling abilities and a sharp eye for memorable, provocative and revelatory stories. We are looking for a senior journalist with a record of assigning long-form pieces readers talk about, share and remember for years in the future.

The deputy editor will, on occasion, stand in for the editor and run the magazine. They are the publication’s chief operating officer, so the ideal candidate has significant management experience as well as the ability to spot potential and to preempt problems.

The deputy also liaises with many other departments within the FT and must understand when to deploy tact, charm and, occasionally, pressure to achieve the magazine’s ambitious goals.

Key duties:

Ensure smooth operation of the magazine’s editorial production
Ensure the magazine’s pipeline of ambitious journalism never runs dry
Commission and edit long-form features for the weekly magazine
Find, develop and mentor new talent from inside and outside the FT
Stand in for the editor when necessary

We are looking for:

Significant experience as an editor, preferably including editing magazine features, narrative long-form, reportage, investigations, criticism and/or literary nonfiction
Experience coaching writers through all stages of the reporting and writing process, including securing access and working through multiple rounds of drafts
Demonstrated talent and organisational management ability
An ideas machine, who generates sophisticated, imaginative and delightful coverage
Extreme attention to detail
Ability to meet deadlines & work under time pressure

The ideal candidate will be creative, well-organised and love working on a highly collaborative team. While print magazine experience is desirable, we welcome candidates from other backgrounds who have demonstrated ability in long-form journalism.

Please submit your application by the end of the day, 1st June 2023.

Chris Roush

Chris 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.