Overview
Job Description
This newsroom leader is responsible for making visual journalism a core component of POLITICO’s news coverage, engaging our influential audience with the most compelling photography and illustrations across our stories, newsletters, live blogs and other products and platforms. Drawing on the work of in-house illustrators, designers and photo editors, the Senior News Editor, Visuals, will take the lead in defining the visual identity of POLITICO’s news coverage, as well as a select group of high-priority enterprise reporting projects that require more involved visual presentation. This role will use visuals to frame and advance POLITICO’s distinctive approach to covering politics and policy. This new position is aimed at integrating photography and illustration more closely with our daily news workflow, prioritizing urgency and energy in POLITICO’s visual journalism. The role is based in Washington, D.C., or New York City and reports to the Head of News. The Senior News Editor, Visuals, must be both an operational leader and a strategic thinker, capable of delivering the right images for POLITICO’s news coverage on a day-to-day basis while also building a consistent look and feel that connects with POLITICO’s most important audiences on and off platform. What You’ll Need
Strong candidates for this position should have qualifications including: Superb news judgment and keen attention to detail and editorial standards. Mastery of a range of visual media, including news photography, news illustration, interactive visual features and data visualization. 5+ years of experience in a fast-paced and demanding newsroom environment. Excellent communications skills and an enthusiastic, collegial approach to working with editors and teams across the newsroom. This position can be based in Arlington, VA or New York. The pay range for this position is $110,000–$130,000. Final salary will be based on experience and qualifications. We value our people. Click here for more on what we offer and what it’s like to work for POLITICO. Let’s keep in touch. You can view our list of open positions here. 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 as
The Essentials
by founder Axel Springer in the aftermath of World War II - remain a cornerstone of the company’s foundation today.
Learn more about Axel Springer . Posting Date
2026-02-06 Title
News Editor, Visuals
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Job Description
This newsroom leader is responsible for making visual journalism a core component of POLITICO’s news coverage, engaging our influential audience with the most compelling photography and illustrations across our stories, newsletters, live blogs and other products and platforms. Drawing on the work of in-house illustrators, designers and photo editors, the Senior News Editor, Visuals, will take the lead in defining the visual identity of POLITICO’s news coverage, as well as a select group of high-priority enterprise reporting projects that require more involved visual presentation. This role will use visuals to frame and advance POLITICO’s distinctive approach to covering politics and policy. This new position is aimed at integrating photography and illustration more closely with our daily news workflow, prioritizing urgency and energy in POLITICO’s visual journalism. The role is based in Washington, D.C., or New York City and reports to the Head of News. The Senior News Editor, Visuals, must be both an operational leader and a strategic thinker, capable of delivering the right images for POLITICO’s news coverage on a day-to-day basis while also building a consistent look and feel that connects with POLITICO’s most important audiences on and off platform. What You’ll Need
Strong candidates for this position should have qualifications including: Superb news judgment and keen attention to detail and editorial standards. Mastery of a range of visual media, including news photography, news illustration, interactive visual features and data visualization. 5+ years of experience in a fast-paced and demanding newsroom environment. Excellent communications skills and an enthusiastic, collegial approach to working with editors and teams across the newsroom. This position can be based in Arlington, VA or New York. The pay range for this position is $110,000–$130,000. Final salary will be based on experience and qualifications. We value our people. Click here for more on what we offer and what it’s like to work for POLITICO. Let’s keep in touch. You can view our list of open positions here. 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 as
The Essentials
by founder Axel Springer in the aftermath of World War II - remain a cornerstone of the company’s foundation today.
Learn more about Axel Springer . Posting Date
2026-02-06 Title
News Editor, Visuals
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