Flagship Lead EditorLondon, England, United KIngdom

Semafor is a global news platform for an increasingly complex world in which consumers are overwhelmed by too many news sources and unsure what to trust. We are building Semafor to enable world-class journalists to deliver reporting and insights with rigor in journalistic forms that ensure a new level of transparency. Our editors and reporters distill the most important stories from all over in formats that uncover the forces shaping the stories, explain the interests behind polarizing narratives, and replenish the stock of shared facts.

As a global platform, Semafor recognizes that smart people can disagree and that informed readers need to understand alternative points of view from competing centers of power and culture in a multi-polar world. Want to join us? Read on.

Semafor is a global news platform for an increasingly complex world in which consumers are overwhelmed by too many news sources and unsure what to trust. We are building Semafor to enable world-class journalists to deliver reporting and insights with rigor in journalistic forms that ensure a new level of transparency. Our editors and reporters distill the most important stories from all over in formats that uncover the forces shaping the stories, explain the interests behind polarizing narratives, and replenish the stock of shared facts.

As a global platform, Semafor recognizes that smart people can disagree and that informed readers need to understand alternative points of view from competing centers of power and culture in a multi-polar world. Want to join us? Read on.

Semafor is hiring an exceptional Lead Editor for its signature briefing, Flagship. Aimed at the core Semafor audience — senior executives, decision makers, and policymakers — Flagship distills the biggest, most important, and interesting news from across the world into tight, analytically rich, and deeply contextualized updates for sophisticated, time-poor readers. Its core strength is that it is complex, comprehensive, and completable.
The successful candidate will help run this product and infuse the Flagship sensibility across the Semafor newsroom, its products, site, and app. They will both write and edit with fluidity and should be armed in particular with strong associative intelligence — able to tie together complex ideas and seemingly disparate developments — alongside a deep understanding of the factors driving global geoeconomics, particularly when it comes to developments in technology, business, economics, finance, and trade.

The Lead Editor will be skilled at making connections, implicit and explicit, across themes, geographies, and industries, while also bringing delight to readers’ daily lives. They will handle the news with sobriety and historical nuance.
The successful candidate will report to the Global Managing Editor, as part of a team of contributors worldwide, helping drive both daily editions of Flagship. They will be based in London.

• Work with Semafor journalists to shape Flagship’s tone and coverage, and write most of it on a daily basis in the UK morning.
• Support the production of the edition that publishes in the US evening with insights and ideas.
• Collaborate across the Semafor newsroom, working with all our teams and verticals, contributing broadly to coverage beyond Flagship — in particular by writing, editing, or assigning stories.
• Help lead the conception and execution of a Semafor app.
• Write smart, sophisticated, analytically hefty updates for an elite audience.
• Participate in event moderation, as well as media appearances on TV, radio, and podcasts.

• 5 to 10 years of journalism experience, with a track record of major writing roles or leadership of…