Position Summary:
LAist is looking for a Senior Editor who can bring innovative ideas to our daily and long-term work. We’ll need an experienced editor skilled in supervising multimedia work and coaching reporters on investigative reporting techniques. The Senior Editor thinks strategically about guiding reporters to produce content unique to Southern California and that reflects our commitment to principles of diversity, equity and inclusion.
The Senior Editor will also shape and help lead editorial efforts of major enterprise reports, ensuring all work is held to the highest editorial and legal standards.
The Senior Editor should offer a track record of reporting, writing and editing in-depth enterprise or long-form narrative stories, and excellent communication and organizational skills.
Expected Compensation Range: $100 USD hour, six hours a week. This is a part-time position, no benefits.
Location: Hybrid, Pasadena, CA
Application Process: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
Application Deadline: Friday - March 27, 2026. A preferred candidate has been identified.
Position Responsibility:
- Assign and edit daily stories, special projects, and other content for accuracy, fairness and inclusivity across broadcast and digital platforms
- Provide clear guidance, feedback and supervision to staff
- Participate and, on occasion, lead training sessions for the LAist newsroom
- Work with newsroom leaders to make data-informed decisions
- Encourage creativity and high standards
- Work with reporters to meet short- and long-term goals
- Work with engagement team to diversify sources and establish new relationships with readers, listeners, and other stakeholders
- Represent LAist at public events
- Other duties as assigned
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
- Five years reporting or editing experience, with two years’ editing or equivalent experience
- Minimum of two years supervisory experience
Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:
- Experience in maintaining high journalistic standards under deadline pressure, including standards of accuracy and fairness
- Experience assigning stories and editing copy
- Experience with digital audio editing systems
- Experience with digital news production and presentation
- Strong writing, editing, and radio production skills essential
- Knowledge of radio, digital, and print style
- Ability to make decisions on deadline, direct coverage and communicate effectively with colleagues and supervisors
- Ability to effectively execute multiple assignments on deadline
- Leadership and personnel skills and ability to develop high-performing teams
- Ability to consistently work well with others and to inspire and lead the staff
- Strong communication skills
- Editing skills: has an understanding of need for interpretative reporting on complex issues
- Ability to develop complex story ideas that provide analysis and add context
- Ability to recognize and act on opportunities for tapping audience expertise and other news resources
- Ability to use non-traditional approaches, including use of Public Insight Journalism and other community engagement tools/methods, crowdsourcing and digital newsgathering techniques
- Well-established contacts and knowledge of the journalism community
- Commitment to public service journalism
- Communicate effectively and cordially with colleagues across platforms
- Juggle multiple projects and deadlines
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Expertise in investigative reporting and public records requests
- Court reporting experience
Physical Demands and Working Conditions:
- Must be able to perform the essential duties of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Ability to manage some work outside of standard office hours as needed.
- Physical Demands:
- Required to move about in an office environment and sit for extended periods of time
- Required to move about in the community
- Frequent use of hands for data entry/keystrokes and simple grasping
- Working Conditions:
At LAist, we strive to create an inclusive environment where we all feel pride in who we are and what we do. We are encouraged to show up as we are – always embracing and recognizing that our diversity is what brings us together. Our fundamental commitment to diversity:
- Enriches LAist and provides an atmosphere in which all human potential is valued
- Promotes learning through interactions among people of different backgrounds and many perspectives, and
- Enables the organization to prepare all employees to promote social responsibility, equity, freedom, and productive citizenship in a global society
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
We are committed to hiring a breadth of diverse professionals and encourage you to apply.
