Washington/U.S. Weekend Editor, Reuters

Thomson Reuters; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 146,000 - 273,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a dynamic Washington/U.S. Weekend Editor to lead news coverage during a crucial period. This role involves close collaboration with reporters to deliver timely scoops on Washington topics and broader U.S. news. The successful candidate will have a strong commitment to speed and quality, with experience in managing journalists and a deep understanding of U.S. government issues. Join a team of award-winning journalists and contribute to impactful storytelling in a fast-paced environment. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the news narrative during significant events.

Benefits

Paid Volunteering Days

Tuition Reimbursement

Flexible Spending Accounts

Health Savings Accounts

Fitness Reimbursement

Commuter Benefits

Parental Leave

Sabbatical Leave

Employee Assistance Program

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Qualifications

• 5+ years of editing and reporting experience.
• Strong understanding of U.S. government and policy issues.
• Experience managing journalists and covering fast-moving news.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Washington news report and broader U.S. news.
• Collaborate with reporters and editors for spot coverage.
• Ensure quality and speed in published content.

Skills

Editing

Reporting

Organizational Skills

News Judgment

Visual Storytelling

Job description

Reuters is seeking an editor to run its Washington news report and broader U.S. news report throughweekendhours, including serving as a backup editor for our White House coverage team, during a consequential and newsy period. The editor will work closely with reporters and other editors to chase spot stories and deliver scoops primarily on Washington news and the Trump administration, with a secondary focus on general news from across the United States. The position requires strongnews judgment, strong writing and editing ability,and experience covering the biggest and fastest-moving stories. A strong commitment to speed,flexibility at working with various beat reporters and strong organizational and planning skills are a must. The ability to work closely with visual journalists on spot coverage is important.

The job will have a four-day work week, Friday-Monday, with Friday largely spent editing stories and planning, Saturday-Sunday spent running spot and beat coverage and Monday used to ensure strong carryover of coverage into a new week.

The job is based in Washington, with the successful candidate working in the office a minimum Friday and Monday to collaborate with colleagues and another day over the weekend.

About the Role

As the Washington/U.S.WeekendEditor, youwill:

• Work with reporters to cover spot developments, and to break news, primarily on Washington topics, including the White House and foreign policy, and secondarily on broader U.S. news.
• Strategically plan ahead forweekendneeds, working with a wide array of editors to ensure the strongest coverage.
• Ensure speed, depth and quality in everything we publish: from spot news through to short-term scoops.
• Collaborate effectively on stories of global interest with colleagues worldwide, including those covering national security and business.
• Work closely with photo and video colleagues to ensure fast coverage of spot news and compelling visual storytelling on key stories.
• Work four days a week, Friday-Monday, three in office. The role reports to the Washington bureau chief.

About You

You are a fit for the role of Washington/U.S.WeekendEditor if you have:

• At least fiveyears of experience editing and reporting.
• Past experience managing journalists.
• A deep understanding of U.S. government and policy issues, plus experience covering fast-moving spot news such as weather or natural disasters.
• Strong organizational and planning skills.
• A proven track record of framingand editing both breaking news and deeper stories.
• Appreciation for and understanding of visual reporting around both spot news and deeper storytelling.

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What's in it For You?

At Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

• Global Career: As a global company, we can offer a truly international career and progression opportunities.

• Learning & Development: On the job learning and coaching. We also have a dedicated training team focused on the continuous development of our journalists.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer competitive salary packages and market leading benefits including paid volunteering days.

• Perks: Work alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and a team who provide unmatched, award-winning coverage of the world's most important stories.

About Reuters

Reuters is the world's largest multimedia news provider. Founded in 1851, it is committed to the Trust Principles of independence, integrity and freedom from bias. With unmatched coverage in over 16 languages, and reaching billions of people worldwide every day, Reuters provides trusted intelligence that powers humans and machines to make smart decisions. It supplies business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations.
Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $146,790 - $272,610.
This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.
Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual's knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.

About Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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