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The New York Times seeks an opinion editorial director

The New York Times is looking for an ambitious, sophisticated leader to help shape its Opinion report and carry out the Opinion Editor’s vision for it.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities will include helping set a strategy for the department’s signature coverage and then directing day-to-day implementation of that strategy, providing leadership to a team of editors and visual journalists. This editor will also help recruit and manage Opinion staff.

You will frequently top edit Opinion’s journalism, ensuring it meets our standards, tone, and style. We’re looking for an editor with a sense of humor and a spine of steel, a confident point of view and an open mind, an appetite for risk and exacting standards for excellence in writing, audio and visual presentation. We’re looking for someone who wants to advance big ideas to make the world a better place, and to have fun doing it.

This position will report to the Opinion Editor and act as a senior leader of the department.

Basic Qualifications:

  • At least 20 years of experience is required.
  • Experience managing a multi-layered team of journalists across digital platforms and print publications
  • Experience commissioning and editing outside writers
  • The editorial director will have excellent news judgment and sharp editing skills
  • A commitment to Times values including independent journalism

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Demonstrated interest in visual storytelling
  • Experience editing across a wide-range of storylines including politics, culture, international affairs and business
  • An enterprise mindset, open to collaboration and innovation

The annual base pay salary for this role is between $200,000.00 to $225,000.00.

For further details click here.

Mariam Ahmed

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