Job Description
POLITICO is seeking a sharp and energetic editor for our daily and weekly politics and policy newsletters. Our newsletters are a critical part of POLITICO’s subscription and consumer platforms, driving the conversation in Washington, key state capitals and Canada on issues such as health care, education, tech, trade and more.
The newsletter editor will work as part of a team to manage the evening newsletter editing workload, ensuring editorial excellence, maintaining standards and directly line editing multiple newsletters each night. The role is part of POLITICO’s Central Editing Desk, a versatile desk providing editing support for content across newsroom platforms and teams.
This editor will work
Sunday through Thursday, 3 to 11 p.m. Eastern. This is a hybrid role based out of POLITICO’s Arlington, Virginia; New York City or Sacramento offices.
Interested candidates should submit a resume and cover letter with their applications.
Who You Are
- You're a detail-oriented editor with strong interest in newsletters and the top storylines in politics and policy
- You possess strong news judgment, rigorous commitment to fair-minded, nonpartisan journalism and ability to quickly sharpen copy
- You can manage multiple priorities on deadline, communicate clearly with reporters and editors and take ownership of your work within a shared editing workflow
- You are adaptable, organized and confident navigating digital publishing tools
What You’ll Do
- Edit daily newsletters across a variety of beats for accuracy and clarity, as well as fact-check and copy edit, ensuring adherence to POLITICO standards and style
- Manage evening newsletter workload in collaboration with other members of the newsletter editing team and newsroom reporters and editors
- Support editing needs of any of our newsroom platforms and teams as needed
What You’ll Need
- 3+ years of relevant journalism experience
- Experience in digital publishing and content management systems
- Working knowledge of AP style
This position can be based in Arlington, VA, New York, NY or Sacramento, CA. The pay range for this position is $80,000–$100,000. Final salary will be based on experience and qualifications.
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About Us.
POLITICO illuminates the forces shaping global power. Since 2007, we have delivered intelligence that anticipates tomorrow's headlines, not reports on yesterday's news. As politics has increasingly become the defining force of our era, our work has never been more vital.
Cabinet secretaries and Ministers start their mornings with our analysis. CEOs shape strategy around our reporting. Advocacy leaders rely on our insights to move policy. We deliver the straightforward facts and clear-eyed analysis they need to navigate the most complex political landscape of our lifetimes.
Our 1,100+ publishing professionals across the world's key democratic capitals—Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Sacramento, and New York—form the world's premier politics and policy newsroom. We tell the story of how power really works by explaining who wields it and how they plan to exercise it, connecting dots others miss and delivering scoops from sources others don't even know exist.
Innovation has always been a core tenet of our story. At launch, we bet that depth would trump scale, that talent would trump traffic, and that politics would become central to modern life. In 2011, we made another bet and launched POLITICO Pro to help decision-makers understand the business of government, transforming both how they shape government action and the business of journalism itself.
These bets have made POLITICO the most successful digital news startup of its generation and the indispensable resource for leaders who shape the future. Today, we are a rarity in media: a growing, profitable, and sustainable news organization.
POLITICO is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, a family-owned transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York. Axel Springer is dedicated to shaping the future of journalism in the free world, believing that a free and informed society is essential to democracy. The company’s guiding principles - first articulated as
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Posting Date
2026-03-19
Title
Newsletter Editor
