Deputy Editor Future Perfect
Role Overview
This is a mid-level deputy editor role managing and editing three reporting fellows at Vox Media's Future Perfect section, focusing on coaching, story development, and editing to produce impactful journalism on topics like AI and global health. The role also involves overseeing a newsletter and assisting in recruiting new fellows, making it a people-and-story oriented position with a 16-month duration.
Perks & Benefits
The job offers a full-time remote setup with location flexibility in DC or NYC, implying standard tech/media benefits like health insurance and professional development opportunities. It includes a collaborative culture focused on innovation and community impact, with career growth through coaching and training sessions for skill enhancement.
Full Job Description
Vox Media employees thrive on innovation and change while ambitiously seeking to master their subject areas, hone their craft, and improve their communities. We help smart, talented, creative professionals make a meaningful impact in media, technology, and the world around them.
Our Future Perfect section is an especially exciting place for that mission to come alive. Future Perfect covers the world through a particular prism: What are the best ways to do good in this world? Future Perfect strives to shine a light on neglected stories that have, or will have, a profound impact on the lives of billions of humans and animals.
Vox is looking for a Deputy Editor for Future Perfect. This role is first and foremost a people-and-story job: you’ll be responsible for managing and editing Future Perfect’s three reporting fellows, helping them generate strong ideas, select the right stories, execute ambitious reporting, and publish clean, sharp copy on a consistent cadence. Because the fellows are relatively early career, this role also includes meaningful coaching and skills development, including planning occasional “brown bag” training sessions.
In addition, the deputy editor will oversee and edit Future Perfect’s twice-weekly newsletter, and, in close partnership with the editor of Future Perfect, will lead the process of recruiting and selecting the next class of fellows who will start in the summer.
The position will be a full-time, 16 month role.
Among our key subject areas include:
- Emerging technology and artificial intelligence
- Philanthropy, altruism, and the institutions that shape giving
- Global health and global development
- Animal welfare and factory farming
- Catastrophic risks to humanity, including pandemics and nuclear war
- Other evidence-driven approaches to improving lives at scale
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Manage and edit three reporting fellows — soliciting and shaping ideas, selecting stories, guiding reporting plans, editing drafts, and supporting fellows’ growth as journalists at Vox. This includePlease mention the word **EXTRAORDINARY** and tag ROTUuNTYuMTQ0LjEzMw== when applying to show you read the job post completely (#ROTUuNTYuMTQ0LjEzMw==). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.