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About the Role
The International desk is seeking an experienced and versatile editor to join its Middle East team in the London newsroom. This role involves overseeing and directing coverage, championing news and enterprise across multiple platforms, and working collaboratively with reporters and editors. The ideal candidate is unfazed by challenging news stories and can operate calmly in a dynamic news environment.
Responsibilities
- Generating ideas and editing stories that demonstrate solid news judgment – from the immediacy of live coverage and spot news stories to longer-term news features and ambitious enterprise.
- Supervising and working with reporters to shape stories and bring them to life.
- Coordinating and communicating coverage during breaking and planned news events, including ensuring that security guidance is sought and followed.
- Thinking creatively about new ways to tell stories and being willing to learn how to execute those storytelling techniques.
- Coaching and developing reporters.
- Maintaining the ethical standards of The Times, including our commitment to independence, fairness and accuracy.
- Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
Requirements
- Proven ability to write and edit news and enterprise.
- Ability to deal with management, staff and sources in a highly professional manner.
- Ability to collaborate and influence across desks.
- Strong organizational skills; ability to prioritize with careful attention to accuracy.
- Experience collaborating with other departments to set and carry out publication plans for all platforms.
- Ability to work effectively across desks and at the necessary pace to meet deadlines (sometimes conflicting) for multiple platforms.
- A willingness to be flexible as the newsroom’s needs evolve.
- Professional judgment with respect to confidentiality.
- A strong collegial and collaborative attitude; effective written and verbal communication.
- Experience reporting from or editing stories from the region is preferred but not required.
Skills
- News judgment
- Editing
- Story shaping
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Organizational skills
- Prioritization
- Accuracy
- Flexibility
- Confidentiality
- Journalistic independence
- Truth seeking
- Understanding the world
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Experienced
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
- Company-matching 401(k) plan
- Paid vacation
- Paid sick days
- Paid parental leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional development programs
About the Company
- The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism.
- We embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization.
- We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law.
- All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.
- The Company encourages those with criminal histories to apply, and will consider their applications in a manner consistent with applicable "Fair Chance" laws, including but not limited to the NYC Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.