New York Times-posted 8 months ago
$165,000 - $185,000/Yr
Full-time • Mid Level
Hybrid • New York, NY
Publishing Industries

The Standards team is looking for an editor to help safeguard our journalistic independence, credibility and excellence. Standards team members advise colleagues on issues such as fairness, sourcing, language, framing and display type. We also respond to queries about ethics concerns, like relationships with sources or reporting practices. We work with every newsroom desk and across every form of our journalism, and our team is a crucial voice in discussions of all the new ways that we want to work. We are partners with many other teams, including communications, audience and newsroom development and support, in ensuring that our journalism is created and defended according to a shared understanding of our commitment to accuracy and fairness. You are a diplomat who works well across desks and is comfortable working with everyone from new editors still figuring out The Times to veterans who now manage entire departments. You are an experienced journalist with the judgment and credibility to weigh in on difficult issues, offer practical options for solving a problem, and get the right response to ensure our standards are met. This is a hybrid position based in New York City and includes regular attendance in the office each week per departmental guidance.

  • Respond to daily requests for standards reviews of articles and other journalism
  • Offer guidance - through daily work and in Standards team outreach - on best practices for reporting, editing and writing, including on questions of Times style
  • Work as a Standards liaison to one or more desks, serving as a routine point of contact and establishing relationships with those journalists
  • Advise colleagues on ethical questions
  • Respond to reader concerns, and help newsroom colleagues do the same
  • Offer ideas for, and sometimes lead, training on Standards-related topics
  • Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
  • 5+ years of journalism experience
  • 5+ years of demonstrated news judgment, including editing experience (whether in text, visuals or other applications)
  • Ability to approach the full range of issues that come to the Standards team through a framework of independence
  • Nimbleness with all forms of our journalism
  • Rock-solid judgment, a high-level understanding of what The Times considers fair and independent journalism, and a fundamental knowledge of our standards and ethics
  • Experience on a journalism standards team, or in roles requiring routine advising on standards and ethics questions
  • Experience in an area of specialty in our journalism - format or topic
  • 401k
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  • life_insurance
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