Statewide Policy Editor
The Connecticut Mirror
Hartford, Connecticut
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The Connecticut
Mirror (CT Mirror), a nonprofit, nonpartisan, digital newsroom that covers
statewide public policy and politics, has an immediate opening for a
full-time statewide policy editor. This editor will be responsible for
conceptualizing, assigning and editing stories, with a particular emphasis on
helping to develop and support young reporters in our growing newsroom.
This editor will oversee our education, justice,
environment, and health reporters, and will work in close collaboration with
other editors on the staff to align coverage across beats and with audience
engagement goals. The right candidate will have an instinct for finding rich
human stories in our statewide policy beats, and a talent for making stories
better through both interrogation and graceful wordsmithing.
This editor must be able to think expansively about our
priorities and resources to ensure that our coverage includes a strong mix of
accountability journalism, features and ground-up reporting on the people
affected by policy and political discourse. They will collaborate with our data
journalists, as well as the CT Mirror’s audience and events teams to ensure we
engage with current and future readers.
Stellar editing and interpersonal skills, a sense of
humor, ample patience, and a desire to help build and support a stronger, more
diverse staff are requirements for the job. Experience with project management,
investigative reporting, and/or data analysis would be a plus. The successful
candidate will also embrace CT Mirror’s public policy mission and highly
collaborative, nonprofit operating model.
Qualifications:
● Experience guiding and editing
public policy coverage
● A demonstrated ability to work
quickly, and under tight deadlines
● A deep commitment to and
enthusiasm for both breaking news and enterprise reporting
● Evidence of strong reporting,
fact-checking and writing skills and a firm grasp of AP style
● A demonstrated ability to manage
a talented and ambitious team, coaching and helping develop reporters with
varying levels of experience
● Strong familiarity with
journalistic ethics and libel law
● A clear desire and proven
ability to collaborate with other colleagues across the organization
● Fluency with audience data to
inform decision making
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Knowledge of Connecticut politics and government is preferred,
but not mandatory.
If you don’t meet all of these requirements, but think
you bring other skills and experience to the job, please apply anyway.
This editor will report to Executive Editor Elizabeth
Hamilton. The position will be based in our Hartford, CT newsroom. Diverse
candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Here’s our commitment to the person we hire:
Annual salary of $80,000 to $90,000 depending on experience.
Medical and dental benefits, and a 403b retirement savings
program with company match.
Generous paid-time-off policy which includes four weeks of paid
vacation, 14 paid federal holidays and personal days.
Professional development and the opportunity to learn from peers
at industry conferences.
Transparent internal review and feedback process.
You’ll work hard because we’re serious about our mission, but
you’ll laugh plenty along the way because we can’t always be serious!
We embrace the American Press Institute’s Guiding Principles for
Nonprofit Newsrooms.
Please apply by October 19 and provide three to five
samples of your work, using this form. https://airtable.com/appmPgbUU6FJ7IgXB/shrakzKnTKKS85MQP
Questions? Contact Elizabeth Hamilton at
ehamilton@ctmirror.org. No phone calls please.
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