Senior Newsletter Editor, US

Location: Onsite, Daily Mail, 51 Astor Place, New York City

Reports to: US Head of Newsletters & Standards

Job type: Full-time

Salary: $105,000 – $120,000 per year

The Daily Mail reaches more than a billion people globally every month. Renowned for its agenda-setting exclusives, breaking news, incisive commentary and in-depth investigations, we deliver a unique editorial blend spanning news, politics, showbiz, royals, lifestyle, health, sport and money.

Our reach, influence and reader loyalty make us a premium destination for more than 300,000 digital subscribers across the US, UK, Australia and beyond. We also maintain a powerful presence across social media, engaging more than 150 million followers and delivering more than six billion video views each month across Facebook, Tik Tok, Instagram, You Tube and Snapchat.

We are looking for an outstanding editor with sharp news judgment and a real feel for what makes a Daily Mail story — someone who can look at everything the newsroom has published in a day and know instantly which three stories a reader will actually open an email for, and how to sell them.

The Senior Newsletter Editor, US is a hands‑on role at the center of our fast-growing US newsletter portfolio, supporting the Daily Mail’s ambition to reach one million global newsletter subscribers by 2028. You will be responsible for the day‑to‑day editing, curation and production of multiple newsletters, and help shape what we launch next.

You do not need to have spent years working on newsletters, or any time sletter and email‑platform experience is genuinely useful and we will take it into account — but we would far rather hire a first‑class journalist and teach them Sailthru than hire a Sailthru operator and hope they develop news instincts. If you have run a busy news desk, edited a homepage, or built a following for a section or a beat, we want to hear from you.

You will work closely with the US Head of Newsletters & Standards, newsroom editors and reporters, the audience team and UK colleagues.

• Help choose, order and frame the stories that go into each newsletter — the core of the job.
• Write subject lines, headlines and display copy with wit, urgency and accuracy.
• Edit and rewrite copy to the Daily Mail’s standards, tone and legal safety, at speed.
• React to breaking news: know when to tear up a scheduled send and when to hold.
• Maintain exceptional quality through rigorous proofreading and fact‑checking.

• Build, schedule, test and deploy newsletters using Sailthru (training provided where needed).
• Manage templates, segmentation, dynamic content and list hygiene.
• Run A/B tests on subject lines, send times and creative treatments.
• Troubleshoot production issues and ensure every send lands on time.

• Help develop, launch and relaunch newsletters, including positioning, format and voice.
• Propose new newsletter concepts grounded in newsroom strengths and audience demand.
• Drive subscriber growth, engagement and retention.

• Track open rate, CTR, CTOR, subscriber growth, engagement and retention.
• Partner with newsroom editors, reporters and the audience team to surface the strongest stories.
• Work with product, commercial and UK newsletter colleagues on shared initiatives.
• Help coordinate newsletter schedules and workflows across teams.

• Substantial experience as a journalist or editor at a national news organisation or major digital publisher.
• Outstanding news judgment and a strong instinct for what a mass audience will read.
• Exceptional writing, editing, headline and proofreading skills.
• Proven ability to work accurately and calmly to tight, repeated deadlines.
• Comfort with audience and performance data, and a willingness to act on it.
• Confidence with digital publishing tools, and the aptitude to master an enterprise email platform quickly.
• Strong organisational, communication and diplomacy/stakeholder‑management skills.
• Passion for the Daily Mail brand, its editorial voice and global audience.
• Experience producing or editing editorial newsletters.
• Hands‑on use of Sailthru, Braze,…