Assistant White House Editor

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The Assistant White House Editor will play a central role in shaping the Washington Bureau report, supporting the White House editor and collaborating with other teams as news requires. This editor will manage reporters, help launch and edit news and enterprise stories focused on the President, and will help coordinate coverage across platforms. Operating in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment, this editor will help monitor ongoing developments on multiple fronts, and assist the White House editor in planning, making assignments, editing stories and thinking creatively about how to advance our report to serve our audiences.

The Assistant White House Editor also collaborates with other newsroom departments and stakeholders, monitoring daily and weekly priorities, helping to manage daily story planning and budgeting, getting reporters launched on stories and doing first or second-editing. This editor will manage the team when the White House editor is absent and shares responsibility for managing coverage of events on nights and weekends.

At a time when the news priorities can shift rapidly, this editor will sometimes be deployed to jump on other developments, work with other teams and support live coverage.

This editor should be able to move quickly across storylines without sacrificing accuracy and tone. Experience managing reporters or other editors is essential, as is a demonstrated ability to make thoughtful news judgements under pressure. Experience with White House coverage is a plus.

This position is based in Washington, D.C. and may include night and weekend coverage. It includes regular attendance in the office four days each week. There may be some flexibility to work remotely per your departmental guidance.

You will report to the White House editor.

Responsibilities

• You will serve as a deputy first editor for the White House team, stepping in to support the White House editor. You will assign and cover first edits for breaking, live news and some enterprise stories, ensuring continuity of coverage and clear direction for reporters across beats.
• You will handle edits of all sorts, including quick cuts, write-throughs, live stories, dailies and lead-alls as needed.
• You will help set up weekend and off‑peak Washington coverage for these teams, including assigning, editing and coordinating with the News Director, editors managing live and breaking news stories as well as staff editors on key stor

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ation. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

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