The Atlantic is seeking a creative and entrepreneurial senior editor. This editor will oversee and expand Dispatches, the opening section of the print magazine. The editor will be expected to generate a wide range of ideas for arguments, columns, and regular features; edit and top-edit the articles that make up the front of the book and ensure that the section has depth, integrity, variety, wit, and style. This editor should have a deep love of magazines and a capacious sense of what makes them most dynamic and compelling. Impeccable editorial judgment and devotion to the craft of writing are musts.
Qualifications:
- Significant experience assigning and editing articles across disciplines and in a range of styles, including opinion, reporting, humor, and argued essays
- Editorial imagination and intellect; an eye for original ideas; the ability to build a front of book that surprises, delights, challenges, and edifies readers
- Large and varied network of writers, scholars, and other potential contributors
- A record of publishing writers of diverse backgrounds
- Ability to guide writers and fellow editors to do their best work
- A knack for display copy and other elements of magazine packaging and web publishing
Key responsibilities:
- Assigning and editing stories for Dispatches
- Working closely with both staff writers and freelancers; expanding our network of contributors
- Helping to ensure that our coverage is compelling, thoughtful, original, and maximally ambitious
- Shepherding pieces through copyedit and fact-checking; working with teams across the newsroom to enhance the presentation and distribution of stories
Salary minimum: $105,000; Salary maximum: $175,000This position is based in New York City or Washington, D.C.This is a Guild position.
