Standards and Ethics Editor

Jobtailor; Brussel; Sur place; EUR 60 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Jobtailor in Brussels seeks an experienced newsroom editor to provide hands-on pre-publication guidance and final edits on sensitive reports. You will help develop policies, training materials, and quality controls across the European desk, ensuring accuracy and consistency.

Collaborate with journalists across teams, calmly juggle multiple priorities under pressure, and mentor editors to uphold rigorous standards of reporting, style, and ethics in every story.

Qualifications

• Must be fluent in English.
• Experience editing sensitive stories preferred.
• Ability to calmly juggle multiple tasks in stressful situations.
• Desire to collaborate with journalists across the newsroom.

Responsabilités

• Serve as a hands-on editor offering pre-publication guidance on reporting.
• Provide a final edit on sensitive content.
• Address and resolve issues related to journalism after publication.
• Help research and write newsroom policies and stylebook entries.
• Assist in designing training programs for POLITICO journalists.
• Ensure quality controls are in place across the newsroom.
• Collaborate with teams across Europe, North America and Australia.

Connaissances

Editing

Pre-Publication Guidance

Quality Control

Collaboration

Journalists

Written English

Description du poste

• Serve as a hands‑on editor offering pre-publication guidance on reporting
• Provide a final edit on sensitive content
• Address and resolve issues related to journalism after publication
• Help research and write newsroom policies and stylebook entries
• Assist in designing training programs for POLITICO journalists
• Ensure quality controls are in place across the newsroom
• Collaborate with teams across Europe, North America and Australia

Requirements

• Written and verbal fluency in English
• Ability to calmly juggle multiple tasks in stressful situations
• Desire to collaborate with journalists across the newsroom, helping broker solutions to challenging situations
• Excellent judgment and reasoning skills
• Experience editing complicated and sensitive stories preferred

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in editing and providing pre-publication guidance, with a focus on quality control and collaboration across diverse teams. Proficient in developing newsroom policies and training programs while managing sensitive content effectively.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Editing Complicated Stories
• Pre-Publication Guidance
• Quality Control
• Collaboration with Journalists
• Written and Verbal Fluency in English

Soft Skills

• Excellent Judgment
• Reasoning Skills
• Ability to Juggle Multiple Tasks
• Calm Under Pressure
• Desire to Collaborate

Industry Keywords

• Newsroom Policies
• Stylebook Entries
• Training ProgramsSensitive Content
• Journalism