Part-Time Editor

Job Description:

The New York Post provides readers with the best in News Sports Pop Culture Fashion and Entertainment with signature wit irreverence and authority averaging 90 million unique viewers a month. Over the past 225 years The Post has evolved into a multi-platform media company spanning print digital video audio app television and commerce.

The NY Post is looking for an experienced editor for a part-time role (16-24 hours per week) with the Sunday staff. The editor is expected to be a line and assignment editor who possesses fine attention to detail critical thinking skills and who can also aggressively transform breaking copy on deadline to sing in The Posts unique tabloid voice.

The editor should be able to mine assign and edit an array of stories -- impactful quirky scandalous etc. -- on immediate deadline for our website and also for the Sunday print edition. The editor must be able to give clear direction to our team of award-winning field reporters and in-office journos.

The Sunday team breaks local national and international news investigates government corruption crushes hypocrisy wherever we find it mines the world for the quirky and the funny and delivers award-winning long- and short-form journalism in the boldest tabloid voice.

The NY Post is the nations 5th-largest U.S. newspaper by circulation and its website routinely generates tens of millions of pageviews every weekend. The ability to handle anything from a breaking brief to a sprawling news feature in a wide range of subjects is needed. And youll even get to spitball with the rest of us on our world-famous Page 1 headlines.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or higher
• A minimum of 5 years of editing in a busy newsroom
• Comfortable editing/re-writing both breaking news and long-form stories in lively tabloid prose for web and print
• A keen understanding of the voice of the Post
• A knack for finding stories our readers crave
• A critical eye for facts and tone
• Broad knowledge base
• Willingness to collaborate and ability to communicate with a close-knit team of NYCs best journalists

Note: This position requires onsite work in our Midtown Manhattan office 12 days per week with a regular FridaySaturday schedule.

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Base Pay Range: $40.00 - $50.00 Hourly

Were committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidates experience skills location and other relevant factors.

For bonus-eligible roles targets are determined based on multiple considerations including market benchmarks and individual contributions.

For benefits-eligible roles we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health retirement wellbeing and more along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees