Senior Editor

Northeastern University; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 58,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Northeastern Global News, based on the Boston campus, seeks an experienced Senior Editor to lead editorial direction and oversee content production for a fast-paced daily news organization.

The ideal candidate brings several years of top-tier newsroom experience, strong line-editing and fact-checking skills, and a proven ability to shape high-impact stories across digital platforms. This on-site role requires after-hours commitment and tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years editing experience with a commercial daily news organization.
• Edit a wide range of stories with speed and accuracy.
• Experience assigning stories and managing content production.
• Strong source-building skills.
• Experience using AI tools.
• Excellent news judgment.
• Experience interpreting public documents, filings, and data.
• Ability to multitask, manage deadlines, and respond quickly to developing stories.
• Familiarity with digital publishing tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Edit a variety of stories including global breaking news, features, enterprise pieces, and articles focused on AI and campus life.
• Edit stories to ensure they are clear, engaging, and accessible to readers.
• Craft compelling, SEO-friendly headlines and captions.
• Work closely with reporters to evaluate and refine story pitches, shape coverage, and maintain high standards of accuracy.
• Help reporters develop reliable sources and maintain relationships across the Northeastern community.
• Collaborate with media relations, social media, and multimedia teams to enhance stories with data, graphics, photos, and video.
• Monitor analytics and audience metrics to inform reporting and follow-up coverage.
• Adhere to guidelines and fact-check thoroughly.

Skills

Editing

News editing

Content production

Source building

AI tools

Digital publishing

Tools

Digital publishing tools

Job description

Senior Editor

About the Opportunity

Senior Editor - Northeastern Global News

Northeastern Global News (NGN), Northeastern University's award-winning, fast-paced, daily news organization is looking for a talented Senior Editor to be based on Northeastern's Boston campus.

The ideal candidate is an adaptable and creative journalist with experience in top-tier media organizations, who will help drive innovative and timely storytelling, set news agenda and manage content production.

The Senior Editor must have several years of experience working fordaily commercial news organizations. The experience should includemeticulous line-editing often under tight deadlines, factchecking,ensuring accuracy and adherence to ethical standards, and helpingreporters to conceptualize and shape high-impact stories.

NGN showcases news about innovation across Northeastern's academicand research enterprise, including but not limited to stories aboutdiscoveries, innovations across multiple areas, such as artificialintelligence, health, engineering, computer science, data science,and the humanities, to name a few.

NGN covers newsworthy stories across Northeastern's global systemof campuses in the US, UK, and Canada. Stories focus on examples ofleadership and innovation throughout the university in areasincluding experiential learning programs, research, teaching, andcampus life inside labs, classrooms, and beyond. NGN also providescommentary and analysis by faculty experts on timely topics thatcaptivate national and global conversations. It is a highlydata-informed organization with ambitious goals and impeccablestandards.

The Senior Editor must be capable of delivering accurate and timelyedits across multiple platforms. We expect curiosity,accountability, creativity, along with a commitment to precisionand speed.

This role is perfect for a journalist who is well-versed in aplethora of topics from science, technology and AI to health andwellbeing, sports and pop culture. The person in this role thrivesin a fast-paced environment, has great news judgment, andunderstands how to mold copy to reach readers across digitalplatforms. The Senior Editor will be adept at crafting compelling,SEO-friendly headlines and captions.

NGN is part of Northeastern's Communications team in ExternalAffairs. Reporting to the Executive Editor of NGN, the SeniorEditor is part of a team of journalists who work closely with mediarelations, social media and multimedia teams withinCommunications.

The position is based on the Boston campus and is fully on site,five days a week. Remote or hybrid work are not an option. As isthe case for every member of the Communications team, after-hourswork, including weekends and holidays, is routinelyrequired.

Key Responsibilities

• Edit a variety of stories including global breaking news,features, enterprise pieces, and articles focused on artificialintelligence, innovation, experiential learning programs, research,teaching and campus life, among other areas.
• Edit stories to ensure they are clear, engaging, and accessibleto readers.
• Craft compelling, SEO-friendly headlines and captions.
• Work closely with reporters to evaluate and refine storypitches, shape coverage, and maintain high standards ofaccuracy.
• Help reporters develop reliable sources and maintain strongrelationships across the Northeastern community and relevantstakeholder groups.
• Collaborate with media relations, social media, and multimediateams to enhance stories with data, graphics, photos, andvideo.
• Monitor analytics and audience metrics to inform reporting andfollow-up coverage.
• Adhere to guidelines and fact-check thoroughly.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5 - 7 years editing experience with a commercial daily newsorganization (digital or print).
• Demonstrated ability to edit a wide range of stories with speedand accuracy.
• Experience assigning stories and managing contentproduction.
• Strong source-building skills.
• Experience using AI tools.
• Excellent news judgment.
• Experience interpreting public documents, filings, anddata.
• Ability to multitask, manage deadlines, and respond quickly todeveloping stories.
• Familiarity with digital publishing tools is a plus.

Good to have

• Experience with multimedia or video reporting
• Data journalism or basic visual storytelling skills
• Knowledge of SEO and audience engagement strategies

Position Type

Marketing and Communications

Additional Information

Northeastern University considers factors such as candidate workexperience, education and skills when extending an offer.

Northeastern has a comprehensive benefits package for benefiteligible employees. This includes medical, vision, dental, paidtime off, tuition assistance, wellness & life, retirement- aswell as commuting & transportation. Visit https://hr.northeastern.edu/benefits/ for more information.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion,color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disabilitystatus, or any other characteristic protected by applicablelaw.

Compensation Grade/Pay Type:

109S

Expected Hiring Range:

$67,855.00 - $95,845.00

With the pay range(s) shown above, the starting salary will dependon several factors, which may include your education, experience,location, knowledge and expertise, and skills as well as a paycomparison to similarly-situated employees already in the role.Salary ranges are reviewed regularly and are subject tochange.