Newspaper Design Editor (Temporary), Politico

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Job Description: Apply here: https://recruiting.ultipro.com/PER1013PCLL/JobBoard/b972ff6a-41b7-4e97-9c71-273c2595c77d/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=20367322-d14b-4fb6-ab71-d7b4bdf6b0c6

Job Requirements: POLITICO is seeking a skilled news designer to lead the production of our newspaper as part of the POLITICO Visuals Desk. Published three times a week, the paper is delivered directly to the halls of Congress and offices all around D.C.

This is a remote temporary position lasting from mid-October/ November 2021-August 2022.

What You'll Need:

  • Demonstrated a mastery of InDesign (especially for designing print products)

  • Experience budgeting and designing a daily newspaper in a fast-paced news environment

  • Excellent news judgment when it comes to news stories, photo selection and headline writing

  • Proficiency in using the Adobe Suite (InDesign, Photoshop), content management systems

  • Experience working in close partnership with copy editors, story editors, advertising departments and printing operations

  • Voracious appetite for news and ability to target stories — beyond those pitched by editors — that should be included in any given issue

  • Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and work on a daily deadline

  • A keen design eye and willingness to contribute to visual storytelling across the newsroom on non paper days (Thursday and Friday of each week)

  • The right candidate for this job will stay calm under deadline pressure, working with the team to bring the most important news of the day to Congress. Beyond traditional news stories, this position will sometimes be responsible for pulling syndicated cartoons for the newspaper and then building those selections out for the online weekly cartoon gallery.

In addition to leading the newspaper, the ideal candidate would handle several other visuals team projects on non-newspaper days. These projects are a mix of templated tasks and illustrations that require creative thinking and case-by-case problem solving. These projects include designing the newsletter image for The Friday Cover, researching and assembling the newsletter image for The Sitdown, designing the occasional thumbnail for the weekly Punchlines video, and more broadly contributing photo research, design ideas and working with the larger Visuals desk to deliver striking visual journalism to our readers.

We are driven by our values. We are relentless contributors, disruptors of the status quo, collaborators, talent cultivators and DEI stewards.

We value our people. We offer a competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package, including health and wellness benefits, commuter benefits, retirement plans, as well as work-life balance flexibility and opportunities for career development.

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Type of Job: Newspaper Designer, Editor

City: Remote

State/Country: Remote

Duration: 10 months

Benefits: Included

Company: Politico

About Our Company:
POLITICO Vision
POLITICO strives to be the dominant source for news on politics and policy in power centers across every continent where access to reliable information, nonpartisan journalism and real-time tools create, inform and engage a global citizenry.

Ethos
We inform the powerful, particularly those who have a political, professional or financial stake in politics and policy. We illuminate this influential audience with insight, edge and authority. We do this wherever, whenever and however our customers need it. And we do it better than anyone else.

Great journalism and great businesses require a great workplace. We seek passionate, collaborative and respectful people. Our culture is defined by relentless grit, total integrity and a prioritization of innovation. We experiment to avoid being disrupted and we have fun disrupting others. And we are not afraid to risk failure if it means being the best at what we do.

POLITICO’s mission from the beginning was to win the audience. We dedicate ourselves to providing accurate, nonpartisan impactful information to the right people at the right time so that they can act with confidence and speed. And we prioritize efforts to obsessively serve, better understand and grow our influential audience by creating innovative products and tools that provide limitless value by helping to navigate tectonic shifts and disruption occurring across the globe.

Political professionals read POLITICO. Public policy professionals need POLITICO. And those who hunger to better understand Washington and government power centers around the globe go to POLITICO first.

How to Apply: Apply here: https://recruiting.ultipro.com/PER1013PCLL/JobBoard/b972ff6a-41b7-4e97-9c71-273c2595c77d/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=20367322-d14b-4fb6-ab71-d7b4bdf6b0c6