News Editor, The Stranger

Description

Job Title: News Editor
Company: The Stranger
Location: Seattle

Salary range of $95,000-$100,000

Priority deadline for applications: April 21, 2025

The Stranger, Seattle’s award-winning news and arts publication, is seeking a full-time News Editor to join our editorial team. 

The Stranger covers Seattle with tough love—demanding that it lives up to its potential. We ask hard questions, provide well-researched answers, and offer unique insights into the lives of our city. We’re looking for an editor who looks at this city from new angles, can hold its leaders accountable, and can champion the ideas that make it better. 

This editor should be just as comfortable producing articles on our online platform, TheStranger.com, as they are curating packages for our monthly print issues. The news editor will also play a vital role in the Stranger’s Election Control Board, our endorsement board.

Qualified applicants must possess the following:

Requirements

• Ability to collaborate with our editorial leadership to build and actualize editorial vision. 
• Previous and demonstrable news editing and management experience.
• Ability to envision the short term and long term direction of political and city news coverage.
• Snappy, smart writing paired with a passion for digging deep into the city and state politics, local news, national commentary, and random Seattle nonsense.
• Willingness to approach some stories, when appropriate, in non-traditional ways, whether that be satire, visual treatments, etc. 
• Must be extremely organized and able to manage a small team of staff writers, and be able to bring in new, exciting contributors. Also must have a demonstrated ability to devise and execute fresh story ideas. 
• Comfort with being on video and social media a plus. 
• And of course: enthusiasm, professionalism, people skills, and a good sense of humor!

Additional Information
This is a full-time, exempt, non-union position. The typical schedule is Monday through Friday, and we work on a hybrid remote/in-person model.

Benefits:

• Health Insurance: Employer contributes toward medical, dental, and vision premiums
• Retirement Plan: SIMPLE IRA with employer matching contributions
• Paid Time Off: Seven paid holidays, two any-day paid holidays and vacation starting at two weeks in first year, increasing up to 4 weeks after 5 years
• Employee Assistance Program: Access to wellness and financial support services
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA): Options to set aside pre-tax funds for medical and dependent care expenses

Why Noisy Creek?
Aside from being an equal opportunity employer, we’re also a vibrant, creative team that believes the more diverse voices that are at the table, the better the conversation—and the work! We realize that not everyone receives the same professional or educational opportunities, so if you don’t meet all the above qualifications but still think you’d be a good fit, please consider applying. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and particularly encourage applications from women, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and other underrepresented communities. If you want to be part of a team where your skills and ideas are valued, we want to hear from you!