Senior Audience Editor, Newsletters

Job alert: we’re looking for someone to join our award-winning newsletter team in a senior role. The successful applicant will be a sharp writer and editor with a genuine passion for newsletters, a strong news sense and a strategic mind.

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Aaron Coultate, Head of Newsletters

The Economist is hiring a Senior Audience Editor for newsletters

We are offering a permanent contract in London to edit and produce our portfolio of nearly 30 titles

Aug 27th 2026 | 5 min read

The Audience team is at the heart of The Economist’s digital strategy. Among its priorities is the distribution of our journalism through nearly 30 newsletters, most of which are exclusive to our subscribers and which reach several million people each week. These will be the primary focus of the Senior Audience Editor we are hiring on a permanent contract in London.

This person will be expected to work across the full range of our titles. Their basic responsibilities will include commissioning and gathering content; editing it to meet our style and writing requirements; following our fact-checking and sign-off processes; assembling and producing in Salesforce Marketing Cloud; sending test versions; and publishing. They will ensure that our editors’ newsletter introductions meet the standards of our other written journalism, and that they both enrich our subscribers’ understanding of the core topics and areas we cover and lift the veil on our reporting processes.

They will also work on off-platform newsletter products, such as on Substack and Linked In.

They will monitor inboxes and deal with community engagement, including polling, among our audiences. They will also take the lead on individual platforms and projects, and will liaise closely with colleagues in our Marketing and Product teams, as well as the wider Economist Group, on activities intended to increase traffic, registrations and subscriptions. There may be occasional opportunities to write—for instance contributing to newsletter introductions or segments, or pitching articles—but this is not the primary focus of this role.

The Senior Audience Editor will be expected to help to organise, mentor and inspire an award-winning newsletter team of six journalists, as well as the wider Audience department of almost 20, many of whom are also producing newsletters on a day-to-day basis. They will ensure work is shared efficiently and completed to exacting standards and strict deadlines. They may deputise for the Head of Newsletters and, where appropriate, the Head of Audience, on matters such as the running of the team and the attendance of meetings with editors or other senior colleagues.

They will liaise closely with senior and section editors from across our newsroom, and act as an ambassador for our department, both internally and externally. They will deploy their deep knowledge and understanding of platforms, and the latest developments on them, to devise and contribute to our wider newsletter and Audience strategies and to identify opportunities to experiment on new and emerging outlets.

They will also monitor analytics and use these data to inform, rather than dictate, their decision-making processes.

As background, Audience journalists collaborate with our 300-strong global newsroom to accurately, responsibly and speedily promote our articles, podcasts, videos and special projects. They are innovative, unstoppable newshounds with a deep interest in, and knowledge of, geopolitics, business and finance, as well as how the publishing industry is changing and new forms of distribution for digital news. Their writing is crisp and concise;

their attention to detail is superb; and they can quickly master and recall our style guide. They understand how The Economist’s coverage differs from that of other publishers, and the risks to our reputation should even a single word be misconstrued.

Our department publishes our journalism via posts on social-media sites including Instagram, X, Linked In, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, Whats App, Tik Tok and You Tube to emerging platforms such as Substack and Google Showcase; by sending notifications to multiple apps and Apple News; and by…