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About the Role

This role involves leading editorial beats, producing high-impact content across various platforms, and providing expert editorial guidance. The position requires independent work in a fast-paced newsroom, adherence to quality standards, and collaboration on major coverage initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Leads major editorial beats, coverage areas, or specialized reporting initiatives.
• Produces and delivers high-impact breaking news, enterprise reporting, interviews, feature stories, and special coverage.
• Develops original reporting angles, investigative content, and long-form storytelling projects.
• Provides editorial guidance and subject matter expertise within assigned beat or specialty area.
• Writes, copy edits, adapts, translates, versions, and produces content for broadcast, web, streaming, and social media platforms.
• Contributes to editorial planning, story selection, coverage strategy, and programming direction.
• Maintains extensive knowledge of assigned subject matter, region, audience, or policy area.
• Provides mentorship, professional guidance, and editorial support to less experienced journalists and producers.
• Collaborates across language services and divisions on major global and U.S. policy coverage initiatives.
• Makes recommendations regarding newsroom workflow improvements, editorial innovation, and content strategy.
• Works independently with minimal supervision in highly complex and fast-paced newsroom environments.
• Meets VOA standards for productivity, editorial quality, accuracy, and deadlines.
• Logs and conducts data entry and related functions connected with VOA’s digital asset management systems.
• Performs multiple senior-level editorial and production functions across platforms and coverage areas.
• Handles highly sensitive, fast-moving, and high-visibility news coverage independently.
• Leads editorial execution for major coverage initiatives, breaking news events, and special programming.
• Develops innovative reporting approaches, storytelling methods, and editorial products.
• Resolves highly unusual and complex editorial, production, and operational challenges.
• Manages multiple major assignments concurrently under tight deadlines.
• Provides senior editorial leadership and newsroom expertise without supervisory authority.
• Exercises extensive independent editorial judgment.
• Independently identifies reporting priorities, develops coverage plans, and executes assignments with minimal oversight.
• Relies on senior newsroom resource and subject matter expert capabilities.

Requirements

• Fluency in English (written and spoken).
• Fluency in target language (written and spoken), if applicable.
• Extensive knowledge of assigned beat, target region, policy area, or subject matter specialty.
• Advanced understanding of journalism ethics, editorial standards, multimedia storytelling, and newsroom operations.
• Demonstrated expertise in live reporting, anchoring, production, and enterprise journalism.
• Ability to produce complex editorial content independently under significant deadline pressure.
• Advanced interview, writing, editing, presentation, and storytelling skills.
• Deep understanding of digital, broadcast, and social media production workflows.
• Specialized expertise or formal education in a field relevant to VOA’s mission and coverage priorities.
• Exceptional complexity in handling multiple senior-level editorial and production functions.
• Ability to handle highly sensitive, fast-moving, and high-visibility news coverage independently.
• Ability to lead editorial execution for major coverage initiatives, breaking news events, and special programming.
• Ability to develop innovative reporting approaches, storytelling methods, and editorial products.
• Ability to resolve highly unusual and complex editorial, production, and operational challenges.
• Ability to manage multiple major assignments concurrently under tight deadlines.
• Ability to provide senior editorial leadership and newsroom expertise without supervisory authority.
• Ability to exercise extensive independent editorial judgment.
• Ability to independently identify reporting priorities, develop coverage plans, and execute assignments with minimal oversight.
• Ability to serve as a senior newsroom resource and subject matter expert.
• Position carries no supervisory or managerial authority.

Skills

• Editorial guidance
• Subject matter expertise
• Writing
• Copy editing
• Content adaptation
• Translation
• Content production
• Editorial planning
• Story selection
• Coverage strategy
• Programming direction
• Journalism ethics
• Editorial standards
• Multimedia storytelling
• Newsroom operations
• Live reporting
• Anchoring
• Production
• Enterprise journalism
• Interviewing
• Presentation
• Storytelling
• Digital production workflows
• Broadcast production workflows
• Social media production workflows
• Data entry

Location

• New York Bureau - New York, NY 10278

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior-level
• Minimal supervision
• Very high degree of independence
• Minimal oversight

Education Level

• Formal education in a field relevant to VOA’s mission and coverage priorities

Salary/Compensations

• $62.50 - $62.50 Hourly