Investigations Editor, National Job at The New York Times Company in New York

If you have a passion for investigative journalism, we invite you to apply for the Investigations Editor, National position at The New York Times Company. This is an in‑office role based in New York City that requires regular on‑site attendance four days a week, with some flexibility for remote work per departmental guidance.

Location: New York, NY – Department: Editing – Seniority level: Mid‑Senior – Employment type: Full‑time

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of reporters, including staffing decisions.
• Generate ideas for news and enterprise for the desk and the newsroom.
• Help determine the desk’s investigative coverage, assign and edit news and enterprise stories.
• Identify topics and reporting avenues, advise on source relationships, vet documents and sources, overcome reporting roadblocks, and structure stories.
• Coordinate with photo, graphic and data journalists in the National Desk, and with editors and reporters on other desks, the masthead, and The Times’s legal department.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our commitment to journalistic independence and the mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
• Report to the National Editor.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years as an editor focused on investigations.
• Deep journalistic and management experience, with the ability to make sound, independent judgments about quality and process.
• Experience leading coverage spanning subjects and desks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Digital media experience.
• A willingness to be flexible as the newsroom’s needs evolve.

Annual base pay range: $180,000 – $210,000 USD.

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