Web Editor

Overview

Web Editor #: JG34915

Location:

Iqaluit, Nunavut
Posted:
January 30, 2026

Description

Nunatsiaq News is the leading news source in the Eastern Arctic and a leading voice in Arctic and Indigenous issues in Canada. Providing authoritative, in-depth and award-winning journalism, Nunatsiaq News is read by 60,000 people a week in 39 northern communities and across southern Canada. We have an immediate opening for a web editor. We are looking for a meticulous editor and writer who is comfortable and experienced working online, in print and with social media.

The web editor needs to be an excellent communicator, able to thrive in a dynamic, deadline-driven newsroom, and enjoy working with and mentoring reporters. The successful candidate will be someone who is interested in Canada’s Arctic and Indigenous Peoples and the interplay of politics, development and culture that impacts our editorial coverage. Reporting to the managing editor, you would:

• Edit articles, opinion pieces and reader comments for style, grammar, accuracy and legal compliance.
• Initiate, plan, edit and post multiple stories, including photos to the website each day.
• Mentor and guide reporters in multiple locations including Iqaluit, Kuujjuaq and Ottawa.
• Assist with the layout of the newspaper’s weekly print edition.
• Write articles, take or source photographs, write opinion pieces and editorials.
• With the management team, continue successful web publishing, with a goal of sustaining growth in readership, including enhancing the website.
• Participate in managing the editorial team, including recruitment, training, logistics, and future development of the website and editorial systems.

This position is remotely based. Hours and terms of employment are flexible.

• Journalism degree or equivalent experience
• Strong writing and editing skills
• Knowledge of northern and Indigenous issues
• Minimum five years editorial experience
• Organizational and time management skills
• Newspaper and online publishing skills
• Ability to work with a team remotely

Nunatsiaq News offers competitive compensation, profit-sharing, health benefits, and, if based in Nunavut, relocation, housing and travel assistance. Nunatsiaq News wants its team to reflect the communities it covers;
Inuit from Nunavut or Nunavik are strongly encouraged to apply. Email resumé and cover note - stating you found this job on Jeff Gaulin's Journalism Job Board - to:

Corey Larocque, managing editor
Nunatsiaq News