Copy Editor

About This Role

This role combines high-level copy editing, editorial quality control, freelancer management, and assignment coordination within Newsweek's remote editorial team. The Copy Editor will ensure all content meets Newsweek's high standards for accuracy, style, and clarity, and will also oversee the freelance writing workflow from assignment to publication.

Responsibilities

• Copy edit and proofread articles for grammar, spelling, punctuation, syntax, clarity, readability, and overall editorial quality
• Apply AP Style and Newsweek house style consistently, using editorial judgment when style guidelines require interpretation
• Fact-check and verify editorial details, including names, titles, dates, locations, figures, quotations, terminology, links, and supporting information
• Assign stories and editorial projects to freelance writers based on expertise, availability, editorial priorities, and subject matter
• Manage multiple freelance assignments and deadlines, tracking stories from assignment through submission, editing, and publication
• Provide freelancers with clear editorial direction, including story angles, objectives, scope, audience, reporting requirements, and deadlines
• Communicate revisions, additional reporting needs, and editorial feedback clearly and professionally to freelance contributors
• Manage stories within the Newsweek CMS, including editing, formatting, reviewing, and preparing content for publication
• Collaborate with editors, reporters, freelancers, and other teams to resolve issues, balance competing priorities, improve workflows, and ensure content moves efficiently from assignment to publication

Requirements

• Experience at a newspaper, magazine, digital publication, newsroom, or comparable editorial organization
• Strong knowledge of English grammar, spelling, syntax, sentence structure, and usage
• Ability to identify questionable facts, inconsistencies, unsupported claims, attribution problems, and potentially misleading language
• Strong knowledge of AP Style guidelines
• Familiarity with publishing stories through a CMS
• Ability to write or edit headlines, subheads, captions, summaries, stand firsts, and other presentation elements
• Honed organization and time management skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects at the same time
• Experience publishing in WordPress
• Experience managing projects in ClickUp
• Familiarization with SharePoint

Important Details

• Schedule: 10:00 am to 7:00 pm (GMT+1), Monday through Friday

About the Company

Newsweek is a global media organization that has earned audience time and trust for more than 90 years. Headquartered in New York City, Newsweek reaches 100 million people each month with news, opinion, images, graphics, and video delivered across a dozen print and digital platforms, and also publishes international editions in EMEA and Asia.