Ideas Editor

The Boston Globe’s Opinion section is looking for a new editor to lead one of its premier products, the Ideas section. The Ideas section is an 8‑page standalone section in the Sunday paper that produces ambitious, lyrical, and deeply reported essays. The editor will oversee the digital and print production of the section, provide the intellectual vision for its content, and directly manage a team of two editors, one writer, freelance copy editors, and a designer.

The position requires living in the Boston area and is scheduled to start in April. The editor reports to the Opinion editor.

• Conceive, commission, and edit essays, opinion features, reported arguments, and editorial cartoons from freelancers. The Ideas editor upholds the highest standards of opinion journalism by emphasizing original, provocative, and fact‑based pieces that are written for curious, engaged general readers. The editor also ensures that the section is helping freelancers make their arguments as strong as they can be, without imposing the editor’s own views.
• Maintain a steady rhythm to the section, including publishing at least one new Ideas piece online each day while also planning for future issues.
• Oversee production of a weekly 8-page Sunday print section, which includes editing the Sunday columns of two Opinion columnists.
• Guide more ambitious projects such as themed packages or takeovers of entire issues several times a year. The editor should also bring Ideas’ journalism to life by identifying compelling speakers for the Say More podcast and moderating panels at live events.
• Lead, coach, and support a multidisciplinary editorial team, overseeing staff writers and editors, collaborating closely with freelance copy editors, and guiding design to deliver cohesive, high‑quality content.
• Identify outstanding freelance writers, graphic artists, cartoonists, and other multimedia journalists and recruit them to contribute to the section, ensuring a wide range of voices, perspectives, and topics appear. Be the final vetting voice on submissions from the public.
• Work closely with Opinion’s digital publishing team on social media presentation, headline choices and tests, multimedia presentations, and publication timing.

• At least 10 years of journalism experience, including managing direct reports. Must understand the rigors and techniques of news reporting. Experience working with freelancers is a plus.
• Demonstrated creativity in story ideation, line editing, and rigor in assessing the quality, fairness, and factualness of copy.
• Experience working in opinion or magazine journalism is favored but not required.
• Curiosity, openness to viewpoints outside one’s personal political or cultural bubble, and an abiding sense of fairness are essential to doing the job well.
• Experience working with video, audio, and graphic journalism is favored.
• A willingness to adapt and be audience‑focused, with a curious mindset and a commitment to creating an inclusive work environment.

The position is based in downtown Boston, near Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market, and is easily accessible by MBTA and commuter rail lines. The annual salary ranges from $125,000 to $159,200.

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