Assistant Editor - Opinion and Ideas
Thursday, September 8, 2011
By: Ashley Harrell

The Chronicle of Higher Education is looking for an innovative Assistant Editor for our Commentary pages and Review section.

If you are a journalist with five years of print and online editing experience and a passion for turning mediocre copy into top-flight prose and good stories into great ones, The Chronicle of Higher Education may have the job for you.

We are looking for an assistant editor for our Commentary pages and Review section. The ideal candidate is an innovative thinker and energetic team player eager to work with all aspects of our editing process, from assigning articles to working one-on-one with authors and bloggers, and from developing multi-platform projects to proofreading pages.

Qualifications:
-Excellent verbal and written communication skills
-Experience shaping and developing written work for publication
-A strong interest in and curiosity about higher education issues
-Excellent headline-writing and line-editing skills
-Close attention to detail and accuracy
-Ability to juggle multiple projects
-Ability to meet deadlines
-A strong sense of teamwork and collegiality

If this is the job for you, let us tell you why The Chronicle is the place to do it. We're based in Washington, D.C. We're independently owned. Our pay is commensurate with experience. And our benefits are among the best in the business.

But most of all, we're a serious news organization. We have more than 90 writers, editors, and correspondents stationed around the globe. We have a weekly print edition with more than 300,000 readers, a daily Web site with 1.7-million unique visitors a month and 14.3-million page views, and a new iPad app that has already been downloaded by more than 14,000 users.

To apply for this position, please e-mail a cover letter and resume to: editorialjobs@chronicle.com.

The Chronicle of Higher Education Inc. produces two newspapers and three Web sites, as well as newsletters and events. The Chronicle of Higher Education, (Chronicle.com) published since 1966, is the leading source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Philanthropy.com) is the newspaper of the non-profit world. Arts & Letters Daily (aldaily.com) is a highly regarded guide to online articles about culture and ideas.

The Chronicle is an equal-opportunity employer.