The Connecticut Mirror (CT Mirror), a nonprofit, nonpartisan, digital newsroom that covers statewide public policy and politics, has an immediate opening for a full-time statewide policy editor. This editor will be responsible for conceptualizing, assigning and editing stories, with a particular emphasis on helping to develop and support young reporters in our growing newsroom. 

This editor will oversee our education, justice, environment, and health reporters, and will work in close collaboration with other editors on the staff to align coverage across beats and with audience engagement goals. The right candidate will have an instinct for finding rich human stories in our statewide policy beats, and a talent for making stories better through both interrogation and graceful wordsmithing.

This editor must be able to think expansively about our priorities and resources to ensure that our coverage includes a strong mix of accountability journalism, features and ground-up reporting on the people affected by policy and political discourse. They will collaborate with our data journalists, as well as the CT Mirror’s audience and events teams to ensure we engage with current and future readers.

Stellar editing and interpersonal skills, a sense of humor, ample patience, and a desire to help build and support a stronger, more diverse staff are requirements for the job. Experience with project management, investigative reporting, and/or data analysis would be a plus. The successful candidate will also embrace CT Mirror’s public policy mission and highly collaborative, nonprofit operating model.

Qualifications:

• Experience guiding and editing public policy coverage
• A demonstrated ability to work quickly, and under tight deadlines
• A deep commitment to and enthusiasm for both breaking news and enterprise reporting
• Evidence of strong reporting, fact-checking and writing skills and a firm grasp of AP style
• A demonstrated ability to manage a talented and ambitious team, coaching and helping develop reporters with varying levels of experience
• Strong familiarity with journalistic ethics and libel law
• A clear desire and proven ability to collaborate with other colleagues across the organization
• Fluency with audience data to inform decision making
• Knowledge of Connecticut politics and government is preferred, but not mandatory.

If you don’t meet all of these requirements, but think you bring other skills and experience to the job, please apply anyway. 

This editor will report to Executive Editor Elizabeth Hamilton. The position will be based in our Hartford, CT newsroom. Diverse candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Here’s our commitment to the person we hire:

• Annual salary of $80,000 to $85,000 depending on experience.
• Medical and dental benefits, and a 403b retirement savings program with company match.
• Generous paid-time-off policy which includes four weeks of paid vacation, 14 paid federal holidays and personal days.
• Professional development and the opportunity to learn from peers at industry conferences.
• Transparent internal review and feedback process.
• You’ll work hard because we’re serious about our mission, but you’ll laugh plenty along the way because we can’t always be serious!
• We embrace the American Press Institute’s Guiding Principles for Nonprofit Newsrooms.

Please apply by September 20 and provide three to five samples of your work to this link:  https://airtable.com/appmPgbUU6FJ7IgXB/shrakzKnTKKS85MQP  Questions? Contact Elizabeth Hamilton at ehamilton@ctmirror.org. No phone calls please.

About The Connecticut Mirror

Nonprofit, non-partisan, digital only news publication covering public policy, government, and politics in Connecticut. Beats include: Three-person investigative team, state budget, justice, health, housing, education, economic development, environment, legislature, and campaign, elections, and politics. 18 full-time and seven part-time staff. Founded in 2010.

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