Job Description
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Civic News Company is the parent company of nonprofit newsrooms focused on education, elections, and public health. They are seeking a Story Editor for Chalkbeat and Votebeat to edit stories, ensuring they are balanced and compelling, while providing editorial support and coaching to reporters.
- Responsibilities
- Line editing stories from Civic News Company’s Votebeat and Chalkbeat
- Making sure stories incorporate regional or national context and are balanced, compelling, properly sourced
- Ensuring that stories are precise and clear, read smoothly, and adhere to AP and Civic News style
- Attending daily and weekly planning meetings
- Providing editorial support to bureau chiefs and managing editors
- Inputting and proofing stories in our CMS and occasionally helping with homepage curation and photo uploading
- Providing one-on-one coaching and mentoring for reporters when needed
- Skills
- 5+ years experience in daily journalism
- Expertise in story structure, line editing, and copy editing
- Experience working in a CMS
- Stellar news judgment
- Strong interpersonal skills with a knack for working with early career and experienced reporters and collaborating with other editors
- A demonstrable interest in U.S. public education and voting rights
- Deep knowledge of U.S. public education and voting rights
- Journalism experience in New York, Denver, Indianapolis, Michigan, Memphis, Chicago, Newark, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin, or Texas
- Fluency in Spanish
- Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance
- Time off that truly supports rest, including 20 days of PTO, a paid one-week recess, 5 sick days, 3 floating holidays, and 12 paid holidays in 2026
- Retirement support through a 401(k) with a 4% employer match that is immediately vested
- 100% paid parental leave: 18 weeks fully paid, plus a 2-week part-time return-to-work ramp-up
- Flexible Spending Plan for eligible medical or childcare expenses
- Annual professional development stipend
- Employer-provided life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage
- Monthly reimbursement for cell phone and internet expenses
- Company Overview
- Civic News Company is a nonprofit publisher that offers Chalkbeat and Votebeat services. It was founded in undefined, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://civicnews.org.
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