News Editor

Sunwater Capital • North Bethesda, MD

2d • $35 - $60

About The Position

Join us at Legis1, where technological innovation meets the policymaking landscape. Legis1 provides unparalleled insights and analysis on Congress, lobbying, and the legislative process. Our feature-rich platform enables our users to unlock insights, build connections, manage risks, and stay informed of legislative actions impacting them. Born from a collaborative effort among former Hill practitioners, academics, product managers, designers, engineers, and commercial experts, Legis1 is at the forefront of congressional and lobbying data and analysis. Legis1 is located in North Bethesda and maintains a presence on Capitol Hill. POSITION We are seeking a policy-savvy News Editor with a newsroom/editorial background to curate, edit, and contextualize content across Legis1’s legislative intelligence platform and related products. The ideal candidate has robust government/policy literacy, a strong editorial pedigree, and demonstrated ability to produce accurate, compelling content under tight deadlines. This role blends policy interpretation with editorial standards to ensure platform-wide consistency, accuracy, and discoverability. This role focuses on high-stakes political and policy content, requiring deep policy fluency, newsroom-grade editing, and rapid turnaround for fast-paced digital delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, Political Science, Public Policy, or a related field.
• Minimum of two years of professional editing/editing-management experience, preferably in newsrooms, policy outlets, think tanks, government communications, or lobbying firms.
• Strong policy knowledge across government, legislation, regulatory issues, and political processes; demonstrated ability to interpret and explain complex policy topics clearly.
• Editorial excellence with proven ability to edit for style, tone, length, grammar, punctuation, and factual accuracy under tight deadlines.
• Experience with digital publishing workflows and content management systems; familiarity with text management and desktop publishing tools.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Acrobat, and related productivity software.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; highly organized with strong attention to detail.
• Self-motivated, results-oriented, and capable of contributing effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Nice To Haves

• Prefer candidate with a demonstrated newsroom pedigree or policy-focused editorial background, including experience with politics, policy, lobbying, or advocacy content.

Responsibilities

• Edit including breaking news, live blogs, enterprise pieces, newsletters, and long-form analyses.
• Maintain and enforce style, tone, length, accuracy, grammar, and legal/policy precision across all outputs; ensure alignment with project specifications and client expectations.
• Apply platform-specific formatting and quality standards, ensuring consistency across tiers of publication (short briefs to in-depth deep dives).
• Optimize content for searchability and digital discoverability; assist with headlines, decks, photo captions, and multimedia alignment in collaboration with multimedia editors.
• Vet political and policy details for accuracy; verify dates, votes, bill numbers, committee actions, and regulatory references; flag ambiguities and coordinate with subject matter experts as needed.
• Work with the audience/strategy team to implement policy-focused audience engagement best practices.
• Manage timely delivery of publications within budget and schedule constraints; adapt to shifting priorities and urgent deadline needs.
• Stay current on developments in government, policy, elections, and regulatory issues; translate complex policy topics into accessible, policy-aware editorial content.
• Perform additional duties as assigned, including rapid-turnaround edits for live-events, hearings, or breaking industry news.and refine a broad range of political and policy content for multiple digital platforms.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees