The Connecticut Mirror (CT Mirror), a nonprofit, nonpartisan, digital newsroom that covers statewide public policy and politics, has an immediate opening for a full-time statewide policy editor. This editor will be responsible for conceptualizing, assigning and editing stories, with a particular emphasis on helping to develop and support young reporters in our growing newsroom.
This editor will oversee our education, justice, environment, and health reporters, and will work in close collaboration with other editors on the staff to align coverage across beats and with audience engagement goals. The right candidate will have an instinct for finding rich human stories in our statewide policy beats, and a talent for making stories better through both interrogation and graceful wordsmithing.
This editor must be able to think expansively about our priorities and resources to ensure that our coverage includes a strong mix of accountability journalism, features and ground-up reporting on the people affected by policy and political discourse. They will collaborate with our data journalists, as well as the CT Mirror’s audience and events teams to ensure we engage with current and future readers.
Stellar editing and interpersonal skills, a sense of humor, ample patience, and a desire to help build and support a stronger, more diverse staff are requirements for the job. Experience with project management, investigative reporting, and/or data analysis would be a plus. The successful candidate will also embrace CT Mirror’s public policy mission and highly collaborative, nonprofit operating model.
Qualifications:
If you don’t meet all of these requirements, but think you bring other skills and experience to the job, please apply anyway.
This editor will report to Executive Editor Elizabeth Hamilton. The position will be based in our Hartford, CT newsroom. Diverse candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Here’s our commitment to the person we hire:
Please apply by October 1 and provide three to five samples of your work, using this form. https://airtable.com/appmPgbUU6FJ7IgXB/shrakzKnTKKS85MQP
Questions? Contact Elizabeth Hamilton at ehamilton@ctmirror.org. No phone calls please.
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