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
We’re looking for a brilliant wordsmith, editor, and newsroom leader with outstanding news judgment, a global perspective, and a deep sense of how news spreads on the internet, to lead our web presence and grow our audience. The role will entail writing, editing, curating, and assigning, and requires a strong understanding of how to integrate and improve the multiple elements on the site — breaking news, scoops, reported analysis, our World at a Glance feature, and our innovative online story form, the Signal — to drive audience and engagement. In sum, the Semafor.com Editor will help shape our voice and personality.
The position would report to the Senior Editor, and will help lead an international team that covers timely, globally-important stories for a sophisticated audience, collaborating with journalists across Semafor’s newsroom. The role will focus on ensuring Signals are written with pace, authority, and verve, that World at a Glance items are sharp, insightful, and pithy, and that our homepage as a whole is inviting and interesting.
Ideal candidates would bring a strong track record of improving and enlivening prose, and experience in the pace and platforms of online breaking news. Experience working or living in multiple countries is a plus, as are language skills.
This position will be based in Semafor's London bureau. Candidates will be asked to complete a writing and editing exercise as part of the interview process, and must retain the right to work where they live.
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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
