Who we are
In our interconnected world, journalism needs to deliver common facts to divergent audiences. Our biggest stories, and greatest crises, are now global: from climate change to pandemics, rising inequality to supply chain disruption, political instability to the influence of social media. Yet global trust in the media is at an all-time low. This moment requires a new approach.
Enter Semafor. We are a team of deeply-experienced journalists and media professionals laser focused on providing a global audience with an unparalleled level of journalistic transparency; through innovative new forms, cutting through the noise of the news cycle with smart, distilled views, and exploring competing perspectives across borders.
Join us and help build a global news platform you can trust.
About The Role
Live journalism is central to our mission at Semafor. Our goal is to foster dialogue, produce compelling journalism, create newsmaking moments, and provide our audiences with a world-class live experience through our events. Since our launch, we have built an innovative live journalism platform that includes major news-breaking summits, in depth interview series, and insightful roundtable events. We are now rapidly expanding our live journalism business.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone with high-level editing skills and a passion for live events. At Semafor we are focused on keeping extremely high standards of intelligence and quality in our live journalism, and this role is primarily focused on live journalism in Washington and around the world — but also includes editing ambitious business and technology coverage.
As Deputy Editor across our Live Journalism business, you will work closely with Semafor’s editorial and live journalism teams to integrate your live event contributions with our broader editorial strategy. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of how Washington policy affects business and technology, as well as a comfort level editing stories about finance and technology. And the editor in this role will ideally have senior contacts in the corporate world and in government who can contribute to our events, which have featured global leaders, cabinet secretaries, and CEOs of major corporations.
You will also help edit and produce our agenda-setting newsletters, ensuring they are must reads for decision makers in those sectors. The reporting teams are led by seasoned, thoughtful journalists who deliver sharp insights and break stories on the biggest news happening on their beats.
This job is about 75% focused on live journalism, and 25% focused on traditional editing.
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Things We’re Looking For
Salary Range:
The base annual salary for this position at the time of posting will range from $145,000 - $165,000. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including business needs, experience, level of responsibility, and qualifications.
Additional job details
Comprehensive employee benefits: unlimited PTO, medical, dental, vision, short & long-term disability, flexible spending, health savings accounts, life insurance, 401(k), pre-Tax commuter benefits. (Benefits programs vary by country and are subject to eligibility requirements)
Semafor, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. Semafor, Inc. will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law
