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ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network is helping local and regional news organizations produce the kind of accountability reporting that is so vital to our democracy. We are hiring a senior editor to oversee five projects each year. The selected editor will guide and edit the work of our local reporting partners, and will collaborate with editors in partners’ newsrooms to envision multipart projects. As with all our work at ProPublica, the job is ultimately to create compelling investigations that spur change.

Our Local Reporting Network pays the salary (plus a stipend for benefits) of reporters in local newsrooms around the United States who work on accountability journalism projects that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to undertake. Projects we’ve produced with our partners have received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, National Magazine Awards and top prizes from organizations such as Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Online News Association, the Society of Environmental Journalists and the Association of Health Care Journalists.

What You Would Be Doing:

• Editing five reporters pursuing yearlong projects, each at different newsrooms.
• Working in collaboration with partner newsrooms to execute stories that can take a variety of forms, from newspaper-style takeouts to magazine, audio and video pieces.
• Coordinating with a team at ProPublica that includes research, data, news applications, engagement, audience development and design to elevate your projects.
• Coaching reporters that range in experience from veteran investigative reporters who have tackled big subjects to newer journalists working on their first large-scale investigation.

We’re Looking for Someone Who:

• Has a track record of landing revelatory stories about abuses of power.
• Aches to tell stories that are both important and powerfully told.
• Has experience with — and an appetite for — collaborating with other newsrooms and journalists from a range of backgrounds. Strong communication skills are key!
• Thinks creatively about all the ways we can do journalism nowadays, including deep dives into data, working with readers, marrying narrative and investigative forms and experimenting with multimedia presentations.
• Is comfortable juggling multiple projects and engaging with a range of journalistic forms.
• Has the diplomacy and teaching abilities to help reporters land what is often the most challenging work of their career.

What You Should Send Us:

• The most important part of your application by far is your past work. Send us links to your best stuff. Let us know how your editing shaped and improved the stories. Tell us about any challenges you faced in the reporting or editing of the story/project and how you overcame them. Editing is about far more than moving words around words. Show us how you think.
• Your thoughts on a local initiative or project you think we should undertake and how you would approach it. With this exercise, we’re hoping for story ideas that will give us a window onto how you think about individual stories and yearlong projects.
• Your resume.

We know there are great candidates who may not fit into what we’ve described above or who have important skills we haven’t thought of. If that’s you, don’t hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.

We are dedicated to improving our newsroom, in part by better reflecting the people we cover. (Here is a breakdown of our staff.) We are committed to diversity and to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and ages. And we are taking steps to meet that commitment. We especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ people and people with disabilities.

If all of this sounds exciting to you, you can apply using this form. We will accept applications until Nov. 23 at noon Eastern time.

This job is full time and includes benefits. We are open to strong remote candidates, though travel to New York and partner newsrooms is part of the job. Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S. Questions? Send them to [email protected]. No phone calls, please.

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