Part-time Copy Editor

Quick take: Axios is a growth-stage startup dedicated to providing trustworthy, award-winning news content in an audience-first format. We're hiring a part-time copy editor!

Why it matters: We are recruiting experienced copy editors to help shape, structure, and edit Axios newsletters and news stories as needed. You will maintain Axios style and voice, ensuring Smart Brevity in all content. You will work with reporters to offer comments and suggestions to improve their news and strengthen their abilities. Many of these newsletters are in the early morning hours.

Details: 

Ideal candidates will embody an entrepreneurial spirit, have a passion for Axios’ mission, and display the following skills...

• Editing expertise, with at least five years of copy-editing experience in the journalism world

• Demonstrated experience in editing newsletters and digital copy

• Capability to quickly aggregate news and write when needed

• Ability to work quickly and autonomously with extreme attention to detail under deadline pressure

• Interest in learning and implementing Axios style quickly

The bottom line: Join Axios' growing editorial team of top-notch journalists.

Pay for this role is in the range of $30.00/hour to $50.00/hour and is dependent on numerous factors, including but not limited to location, work experience, and skills. Axios' compensation philosophy takes into account cost of labor differentials across the country. Because this is a remote-optional job posting, this salary range takes into account all possible locations within the United States, but candidates will only be eligible for the salary range for their location

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