Assistant Editor, Well

1 Month ago • 7 Years + • $145,000 PA - $165,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Well desk at The New York Times is seeking a creative and ambitious editor to produce visually-driven service and enterprise journalism focused on helping readers live healthier lives. This role involves shaping the desk's storytelling and reader engagement strategies, with a key focus on editorial decisions for visual stories. The desk covers personal health, mental and physical wellness, nutrition, fitness, family, and relationships, incorporating short visual stories, multimedia projects, and videos. The assistant editor will conceive, commission, and manage assignments in various formats, editing both visuals and text, and demonstrating fluency with digital publishing. Collaboration with staff and freelance reporters, as well as editors across the newsroom, is essential. Strong journalistic judgment, creativity, innovative thinking, and attention to detail are critical.
Must have:
  • 7+ years of editing experience in a newsroom with a focus on visual journalism.
  • Experience creating compelling stories with video, photography, text, and audio.
  • Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams.
  • Strong editorial judgment and ability to innovate.
  • Knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Premiere.
Good to have:
  • Management experience.
  • Willingness to work a flexible schedule.
  • Passion for health and wellness journalism.
  • Ability to meet deadlines and adapt to change.

Job Details

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for. 

The Well desk is seeking a creative and ambitious editor to produce highly visual service and enterprise journalism that will help Times readers live healthier lives. This person will help shape the way the desk tells stories and engages with readers and will play a key role in editorial decisions around visual stories. 

Well offers best-in-class coverage of personal health, including mental and physical wellness, nutrition, fitness, family and relationships. The report includes a growing number of short visual stories, multimedia projects and videos.

As an assistant editor, you will conceive, commission and run story assignments in a variety of formats, including quick turn and longer lead articles. You are a capable editor of visuals and text, and fluent with the technical aspects of modern digital publishing. Your editing will focus on visual projects, but will include working with staff and freelance reporters. You should be collaborative and ready to work with editors on Well and across the newsroom.

Journalistic judgment, creativity, innovative thinking and attention to detail are critical aspects of this role. You’ll make frequent use of our CMS and adjacent tools. Candidates for this job should have a proven track-record of publishing ambitious work, collaborating across teams, translating story ideas into visual concepts, and vice-versa.  

This is a hybrid position based in New York City and includes regular attendance in the office each week per your departmental guidance. 

Responsibilities:

  • Conceive, commission and edit story assignments in a variety of story forms.

  • Initiate and actively manage special projects and recurring features.

  • Steer the work of staff and freelance reporters, among other contributors.

  • Work with Well’s visual team to shape editorial ideas into visual and multimedia story opportunities. 

  • Act as a point person/project manager for multimedia projects, calling meetings, setting deadlines, providing feedback and supporting development.

  • Collaborate closely with other Well editors, as well as video, photo and graphics editors, designers and art directors across the newsroom.

  • Help drive the desk to create new digital experiences and story forms that become regular elements of our coverage. Help develop new approaches to news coverage.

  • Guide Well editors and reporters toward greater fluency when it comes to conceptualizing, editing and executing new story forms.

  • Show strong editorial judgment, working with Times editors, standards and legal department for ethical and legal questions.

  • 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.

  • This role reports to Well’s Editorial Director.

Basic Requirements:

  • 7+ years of editing experience in a newsroom environment, with a focus on visual journalism.

  • Demonstrated experience creating compelling stories that incorporate video, photography, text and audio. Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams.

  • Strong editorial judgment and proven ability to innovate, translating editorial priorities into multimedia storytelling. 

  • Knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Premiere.

Preferred Requirements:

  • Management experience.

  • Willingness to work a flexible schedule as news demands.

  • A passion for journalism focused on health and wellness.

  • Ability to meet deadlines and to adapt to change in a daily, unpredictable news production environment.

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