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About the Role
The Atlantic is seeking a creative and entrepreneurial senior editor to oversee and expand Dispatches, the opening section of the print magazine. This role requires generating ideas, editing articles, and ensuring the section has depth, integrity, variety, wit, and style. A deep love of magazines, impeccable editorial judgment, and devotion to the craft of writing are essential.
Responsibilities
- Assigning and editing stories for Dispatches
- Working closely with staff writers and freelancers
- Expanding our network of contributors
- Ensuring our coverage is compelling, thoughtful, original, and maximally ambitious
- Shepherding pieces through copyedit and fact-checking
- Working with teams across the newsroom to enhance the presentation and distribution of stories
Requirements
- Significant experience assigning and editing articles across disciplines and in a range of styles, including opinion, reporting, humor, and argued essays
- Editorial imagination and intellect
- An eye for original ideas
- Ability to build a front of book that surprises, delights, challenges, and edifies readers
- Large and varied network of writers, scholars, and other potential contributors
- A record of publishing writers of diverse backgrounds
- Ability to guide writers and fellow editors to do their best work
- A knack for display copy and other elements of magazine packaging and web publishing
Skills
- Editorial judgment
- Writing craft
- Assigning articles
- Editing articles
- Opinion writing
- Reporting
- Humor writing
- Essay writing
- Idea generation
- Writer networking
- Content presentation
- Content distribution
- Web publishing
Location
- New York City
- Washington, D.C.
Work Type
- Guild position
Experience Level
- Senior editor
Salary/Compensations
- $105,000
- $175,000
About the Company
- The Atlantic has, for more than 160 years, advanced ideas that matter and sparked global conversation on the most important issues of our time.
- We aim to bring clarity and original thinking to questions of consequence, on topics ranging from politics, the economy, and global affairs to technology, science, and culture.
- As the third-longest-running magazine in America, we find ourselves at a remarkable moment: one of both continuation and transformation, of upholding our legacy while continuously reinventing ourselves for the future.
Equal Opportunity
- The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC ("The Atlantic") is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- The Atlantic is committed to diversity and encourages members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, LGBTQ people, people of color, and people with disabilities.
- We do not discriminate against our applicants because of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.
- Job offers to work at The Atlantic are contingent upon the candidate’s successful completion of reference checks and compliance with The Atlantic's COVID-19 vaccination policy.
- The Atlantic requires all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, including subsequent boosters, and submit proof of vaccination status.
- Employees who cannot receive the vaccine because of a disability/medical contraindication or sincerely-held religious belief may request an accommodation (e.g., an exemption) to this requirement.