ProPublica is hiring a Senior Editor, Business to launch, oversee and elevate a new team on our national staff. This editor will marshal a team of reporters to tackle revelatory accountability journalism in the world of business, finance and money, finding fresh lanes of reporting from Silicon Valley to Wall Street.
What You'll Do
- Supervise five national reporters working on revelatory, important stories and projects.
- Provide support and guidance to ensure projects are conceived of and told as ambitiously and creatively as possible.
- Work with reporters to select stories with the potential for impact and help them overcome reporting hurdles.
- Edit stories, including identifying and fixing structural and logical issues and elevating writing when necessary.
- Help reporters collaborate with researchers, data visualization reporters, engagement reporters and audience and visual staffers.
- Serve as a champion for accountability journalism.
What We're Looking For
- Experience editing accountability reporting.
- Experience managing or leading complex investigations and supervising employees.
- Experience with — and an appetite for — collaborating, both across the newsroom and with external partners.
- Strong communication skills.
- Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to juggle many responsibilities, meet deadlines and handle pressure while remaining calm.
- The editing range to handle and think creatively about different types of investigative storytelling, including rolling investigations, traditional investigative projects, narratives and multimedia formats.
- The bedside manner to help reporters land what is often the most challenging work of their career.
- The ability to travel, as needed, for team meetings, trainings and other events.
- Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.
Team & Environment
You will lead a team of five national reporters as part of ProPublica’s national staff, reporting to an assistant managing editor.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary range: $175,000 to $215,000.
- Full time position includes benefits.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position. We are based in the New York City metro area, but will consider remote candidates.
We are dedicated to improving our newsroom, in part by better reflecting the people we cover. We are committed to diversity and building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and ages. We especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people and people with disabilities.
ProPublica is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age or any other status protected under applicable law.
