Standards and Ethics Editor

POLITICO Europe; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

POLITICO Europe seeks an experienced Standards and Ethics Editor to lead on our growing team, ensuring integrity across platforms. This senior role collaborates with reporters and editors, addressing ethical questions as they arise and finalizing edits on sensitive content.

The editor will write and update newsroom policies and stylebook entries, aiding training programs and upholding POLITICO’s editorial values of authoritative, nonpartisan journalism.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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 our journalism after it is published
• 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

Skills

Editorial judgment

Verbal fluency in English

Newsroom collaboration

Reasoning skills

Job description

Standards and Ethics Editor

Job Description

POLITICO is looking for an experienced editor of impeccable judgment to play a leading role on our growing global standards and ethics team to ensure the integrity of our journalism across all platforms.

This hands‑on editor will work side‑by‑side with reporters and assigning editors discussing sourcing and reporting questions as they develop and helping all journalists resolve knotty ethical questions as they arise.

They will provide a final edit on some of our most sensitive content, whether that’s a story, blog post or newsletter item, and address questions internally and externally post‑publication as needed.

This senior‑level editor will also take a leading role in writing and updating newsroom policies and stylebook entries to offer clear direction to the staff and work alongside others to assist on training and development programs for our journalists.

This role comes with a mandate to uphold POLITICO’s editorial values and commitment to authoritative, nonpartisan and tough‑mindedly fair journalism.

This position may be based in either Brussels or London, but this editor should be able to collaborate comfortably with teams across Europe, North America and Australia.

What You’ll Do

• 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 our journalism after it is published
• 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

What You’ll Need

• 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

About Us

POLITICO illuminates the forces shaping global power. Since 2007, we have delivered intelligence that anticipates tomorrow's headlines, not reports on yesterday's news. As politics has increasingly become the defining force of our era, our work has never been more vital.

Cabinet secretaries and Ministers start their mornings with our analysis. CEOs shape strategy around our reporting. Advocacy leaders rely on our insights to move policy. We deliver the straightforward facts and clear‑eyed analysis they need to navigate the most complex political landscape of our lifetimes.

Our 1,100+ publishing professionals across the world's key democratic capitals—Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Sacramento, and New York—form the world's premier politics and policy newsroom. We tell the story of how power really works by explaining who wields it and how they plan to exercise it, connecting dots others miss and delivering scoops from sources others don't even know exist.

Innovation has always been a core tenet of our story. At launch, we bet that depth would trump scale, that talent would trump traffic, and that politics would become central to modern life. In 2011, we made another bet and launched POLITICO Pro to help decision‑makers understand the business of government, transforming both how they shape government action and the business of journalism itself.

These bets have made POLITICO the most successful digital news startup of its generation and the indispensable resource for leaders who shape the future. Today, we are a rarity in media: a growing, profitable, and sustainable news organization.

POLITICO is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, a family-owned transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York. Axel Springer is dedicated to shaping the future of journalism in the free world, believing that a free and informed society is essential to democracy. The company’s guiding principles - first articulated asThe Essentialsby founder Axel Springer in the aftermath of World War II - remain a cornerstone of the company’s foundation today.Learn more about Axel Springer.