Assistant Editor

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The Atlantic is seeking an assistant editor to join our newsroom audience-engagement team. The team’s mission includes maximizing the reach and impact of our journalism, cultivating relationships with readers, and building habit among them. The editor will be tasked with helping our newsroom understand those audiences better and innovating fresh tactics on emerging platforms to keep The Atlantic at the frontier of digital publishing.

This journalist should be a strategic thinker who views the work of audience-building as a creative and meaningful challenge. Impeccable judgment and excellent writing and editing skills are each a must.

The Atlantic is focused on helping new and existing readers to understand the value and power of the ideas, arguments and expertise that have animated our writer-driven publication since its founding in 1857.

In this role, you will:

• Work with the team’s senior editors to develop and execute plans for engaging audiences with Atlantic stories across a range of digital platforms, helping to continually evaluate and refine our approach.
• Write, edit, and post presentation platform-specific copy for Atlantic stories on platforms that may include the app, the home page and article page, push alerts, newsletters, and all major and emerging social media platforms.
• Experiment with, and craft best practices for, new and emerging digital spaces.
• Maintain our relationships with partner platforms (such as Apple News), helping our journalism reach a broad audience.
• Collaborate with our Insights team to analyze audience behavior on various platforms and sharpen approaches.
• Advance the team’s efforts to build and share a deep and dynamic understanding of our audiences on each major platform—formulating and researching your own inquiries and sharing their results with newsroom colleagues.

Qualities of a successful candidate include:

• 1+ years experience operating news-branded social media accounts or digital platforms.
• Scrupulous attention to detail, including writing structure, mechanics, grammar, and spelling. Copy desk experience is a plus.
• A collegial, energetic, “yes and” approach to problem solving and creative endeavors, and willingness to tackle new duties.
• The ability to manage time, communicate clearly with a manager, accomplish both discrete tasks and longer-term projects on deadline, and switch easily between different duties.
• Critical thinking, attention to process, agility, and an appetite to experiment and explore.
• Experience using video editing software, such as Adobe Premiere, is preferred.
• Experience working with editorial data and tracking tools (Google Analytics, Chartbeat, Looker) is a plus.

The role will include one weekend shift, and occasional nights or early mornings during major breaking news moments.

Salary Minimum: $55,000;
Salary Maximum: $65,000