Now Hiring: Senior Editor
In These Times magazine is hiring a Senior Editor to join the management team team at our Chicago office.
April 9, 2017
In These Times, a fast-growing, independent, nonprofit magazine, is looking for an experienced editor to expand our senior editorial team. We can adapt the role to the candidate, but it will involve editing ambitious stories that fulfill In These Times’ mandate of advancing social, environmental, economic and racial justice.
Author and historian James Weinstein founded In These Times in 1976 with the mission “to identify and clarify the struggles against corporate power now multiplying in American society.” Today, In These Times magazine reaches a record 50,000 subscribers every month, and that mission is more important than ever.
As an In These Times senior editor you'll be provided with a unique opportunity to amplify and inform progressive movements at a moment when they are resurgent, and to help expose and clap back against the oligarchs in power. We especially pride ourselves in our reporting on vibrant activism in places the coastal media overlooks, from the Fannie Lou Hamer-inspired black cooperative movement in Jackson, Miss., to the ongoing fight for voting rights in the Navajo Nation.
We’re looking to tailor this position based the candidate’s skills and interests.
The November 2017 issue of the In These Times.
The first issue of In These Times, released November 15th, 1976
About In These Times
In These Times is an independent, nonprofit monthly magazine that has covered politics and culture from the left since 1976. The monthly print magazine now reaches a record 50,000 subscribers, and inthesetimes.com is visited by half a million readers a month. We're a small but dedicated staff that is deeply committed to our mission. We're also a proud union workplace with an internal culture that strives to live up to the ideals we advocate every day through our journalism. We're looking for co-workers who are comfortable working independently when needed, but excited to be part of a close-knit team that cares passionately about politics and social movements.
The first issue of In These Times, released November 15th, 1976
Duties
Here are the duties of our senior editorial team. We expect the new hire to take on some—but not all—of these:
The senior editor will be joining a four-person management team. They will have a lot of clout in setting journalistic priorities, steering the institution and shaping our workplace culture.
Qualifications:
Base requirements:
Additional / optional experience:
How to apply
Email jobs@inthesetimes.com with the subject “Senior editor.” No phone calls please.
Send a cover letter that explains why you want this job and describes your ideal version of a senior editorial role. Make clear which of the above duties you are most excited and qualified to take on.
Include a resume, 1 writing sample and 3 samples of stories you have edited.
Editing samples should include (a) the first draft (b) your mark-ups and comments to the writer (c) any subsequent drafts/comments (d) the published story.
People of color and members of other groups underrepresented in media are strongly encouraged to apply.
Job details
This is a full-time, Chicago-based position.
Salary commensurate with experience and role. Salary range is $45,000-$60,000.
In These Times offers top-notch benefits: paid medical and dental (including for employee’s partner and/or family), employer-matched 403B, three months paid parental leave, 16 holidays per year, and 4 weeks paid vacation.
Start date is negotiable. The position will remain open until filled.