Senior Editor, VICE News

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VICE News is looking for a senior editor to help us run and manage our digital newsroom. The position is a blend of enterprise editing, features editing, running reporting projects, and multimedia journalism.

Ideal candidates should have a track record of producing impact long-form journalism from staff and freelance reporters, data-driven stories and other alternative story formats, podcasts, and should be prepared to run larger projects, including investigations, FOIA reporting, and narrative features. Video or audio experience is not necessary, but a strong desire to work in those formats is required. This is a visual newsroom, so this position requires close collaboration with our digital video teams and our HBO shows.

Roles and responsibilities:

  • Helping to manage and mentor our reporting staff, in both video and text
  • Editing features and enterprise reporting
  • Commissioning features from freelancers
  • Helping us develop and execute editorial strategy
  • Developing and executing alternative story formats, including podcasts and multimedia pieces
  • Ensuring our journalism meets the highest standards

Qualifications:

  • 4+ years experience editing at a major news outlet
  • Proven history of developing an editing ambitious features and projects, including alternative story formats
  • Experience managing reporters is preferred
  • Familiarity with social media is a plus, but experience with digital presentation and packaging is required.
  • Highly attuned B.S. detector.
  • Relentlessness about getting new information into the world

 

If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please let us know. We will work together to best meet your needs.

 

Disclaimers:

 Equal Employment Opportunities: VICE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that strives to create and maintain a workplace that celebrates inclusion and diversity. At VICE, we understand that inclusion and diversity is a major benefit to our employees, our readers and viewers, and our company culture. We treat all applicants and employees fairly without regard to age, alienage or citizenship status, color, disability, gender, gender identity and expression, marital status and partnership status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion/creed, sexual orientation, arrest or conviction record, caregiver status, credit history, unemployment status, salary history, status as a victim of domestic violence, stalking and sex offenses, status as a veteran or active military service member, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

 VICE requires that all employees have proper authorization to work in the U.S. Should an applicant require employment sponsorship, VICE will determine, in its sole discretion, whether such sponsorship will be provided.

 Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with the New York City Fair Chance Act or other applicable laws.

*Qualified candidates must be able to perform the essential functions of this position satisfactorily, with or without a reasonable accommodation. The requirements and essential functions described above are not an exhaustive list and instead are meant to describe the general nature and level of work required of the job. VICE reserves the right to modify the essential functions of this position where a legitimate business exists.

 

To all recruitment agencies: Unless otherwise indicated, VICE does not accept agency resumes and is not responsible for any fees or expenses related to such unsolicited resumes.


 

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