Assistant Editor

Fair Observer; Washington; On-site; USD 42,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fair Observer, a nonprofit media organization, is seeking an Assistant Editor to ensure high editorial standards across global submissions. Responsibilities include fact-checking, attending editorial meetings, and liaising with senior editors for submissions. This entry-level position offers an opportunity to engage in meaningful civic journalism.

Qualifications

• Entry-level position requiring detail-oriented candidates.
• Ability to adhere to editorial guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Attend editorial meetings.
• Review and edit submissions as assigned by senior editors.
• Check facts and ensure editorial standards are met.

Skills

Fact-checking

Editing

Attention to detail

Job description

Fair Observer is an independent, nonprofit media organization that engages in citizen journalism and civic education. It publishes more than 3,000 authors from 90 countries, cutting across borders, backgrounds and beliefs. Some of them are former prime ministers, former diplomats and retired intelligence officers. Others are young people from around the world. Anyone can publish with us, but everyone goes through the same fact-checking and a rigorous editorial process. In a nutshell, we provide diversity and quality in an era of echo chambers and fake news. We are unique: no one else does what we do.

Job Description

The Assistant Editor will assist senior editors to edit submissions from around the world. The main job is to check facts and ensure that the final product is up to Fair Observer’s high standards.

Responsibilities

As Assistant Editor, you will:

• Attend editorial meetings
• Review submissions assigned to you by senior editors
• Fact-check author’s claims and hyperlinks where necessary
• Follow Fair Observer’s editorial guidelines
• Notify senior editors when you finish your editing tasks

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing

• Industries

  Media Production

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