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About the Role

Seeking an associate news editor to join the Newsdesk team, responsible for planning, editing, and commissioning news and feature stories for Guardian Australia.

Responsibilities

• Help set Guardian Australia’s news agenda by proposing considered, original, and topical ideas for news and feature stories.
• Work with other newsdesk editors in planning, editing, and commissioning news and feature stories.
• Edit copy, check headlines, and ensure all legal issues are resolved prior to publication.
• Work with and manage selected reporters, and deliver regular feedback.
• Monitor news sources (wire services, news websites, social media, broadcast media) for stories and issues that will provide distinctive content for Guardian Australia.
• Collaborate with multimedia editors, the picture desk, and the data team to deliver stories in the most accessible formats with the best presentation.

Requirements

• Substantial experience editing national news, preferably digitally.
• Good grasp of national news and key state issues.
• Experience managing reporters to develop ideas daily and guide career progression.
• Understanding of diversity and inclusion issues.
• Good understanding of Guardian values.
• Good understanding of media law.

Skills

• Good writing, commissioning, and editing skills.
• Good news judgment.
• Speed and accuracy with high attention to detail.
• Good interpersonal skills; persuasive and decisive.
• Efficient team player who is flexible, resilient, and adaptable.
• Willingness to adjust work hours or shift pattern at short notice when required.
• Confident, assertive, and diplomatic.
• Open to challenge and correction.
• A passion for independent journalism and an understanding of editorial code and values.

Location

• Sydney
• Melbourne

Work Type

• Full-time
• Contract
• Hybrid working

Benefits

• Employee assistance program (EAP) to support employee wellbeing
• Paid volunteer leave
• Dedicated diversity and inclusion employee groups, action plans (including Reconciliation Action Plan) and cultural competency training
• Guardian digital subscription

About the Company

• Guardian Australia is part of Guardian News & Media (GNM), publisher of theguardian.com.
• As a leading global media organisation, we are renowned for our pioneering independent journalism and our award-winning digital products.
• GNM Australia Limited (Guardian Australia) is proud to be a fair and ethical employer.
• We believe that our role in the Australian media is to give a voice to the most marginalised people in society and value and respect all differences in all people — including people of colour, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from different social classes, people with diverse gender and sexual identities, and people with disabilities (seen and unseen).
• We believe that these communities must be centred in the work we do, bringing a new perspective and a diversity of thought.
• We also encourage flexible working and aim to create a work environment where all employees feel respected.

Equal Opportunity

• Australian editorial minimum rates of pay by band and grade are outlined in the Journalists (GNM Australia Pty Ltd) Enterprise Agreement 2024 for roles that fall under its coverage.