About CUF

The Center for an Urban Future (CUF), a leading think tank focused on creating a stronger and more equitable economy in New York City, seeks a Managing Editor with exceptional editing and writing skills to help develop CUF's high-impact policy reports and other publications.

CUF sparks policy change in New York by publishing fact-based research that raises awareness of important, often overlooked issues and advances practical solutions to expand economic opportunity for all New Yorkers. A hallmark of our work is making in-depth, complex policy research clear and accessible to a wide audience—including policymakers, journalists, nonprofit leaders, practitioners, and other New Yorkers who can put good ideas into action.

We are looking first and foremost for a talented editor: someone who loves working with writers and knows how to turn complicated research and promising drafts into clear, compelling publications. But excellent writing is also a vital part of the job. The Managing Editor will regularly draft original material, including sections of reports and policy briefs, report introductions, funder reports and updates, proposals, op-eds, and other materials.

Responsibilities

The Managing Editor will work in close partnership with and report to the Editorial & Policy Director, who will remain deeply involved in editing and managing CUF’s research. The two will divide responsibility for projects across CUF’s portfolio, with the Managing Editor taking the lead on some and collaborating closely with the Editorial & Policy Director on others. The Managing Editor will also work directly with the Executive Director on selected projects.

This is not primarily a copy-editing role. The Managing Editor will provide substantive and developmental editing throughout the research and writing process and will often need to get deeply into the text: reorganizing sections, rewriting passages, sharpening arguments, and finding better ways to deploy data, interviews, and other evidence.

The Managing Editor will also help supervise members of CUF’s research team, coaching staff to become stronger writers and researchers while keeping multiple projects moving toward publication.

More specifically, the Managing Editor will:

• Lead the editing and project management of a portfolio of CUF research projects while collaborating closely with the Editorial & Policy Director on others.
• Edit CUF publications across a range of formats, including long-form policy reports, policy and data briefs, commentaries and op-eds, newsletters, proposals, funder communications, and other written products. This will include substantive and developmental editing, rewriting, line editing, copy editing, and proofreading.
• Write and help develop original content across CUF’s work, from report sections and introductions to policy briefs, proposals, funder reports and updates, op-eds, speeches, and other organizational writing.
• Consult closely with the Editorial & Policy Director on editorial direction and feedback to researchers, translate that direction into clear and actionable guidance, and work with researchers to ensure agreed-upon revisions are carried through.
• Work with the Executive Director and Editorial & Policy Director to draft and develop selected reports, proposals, op-eds, funder communications, and other written materials.
• Supervise and mentor members of the research team, helping staff strengthen their writing, research, and project-management skills.
• Help shape projects from the outset, including framing research questions, identifying sources and interviewees, developing methodology, and determining the strongest findings, stories, and recommendations.
• Establish clear deadlines and manage research, writing, revision, and production schedules.
• Conduct final quality assurance on written products for factual accuracy, clarity, structure, consistency, and adherence to CUF’s style.

Qualifications

We are looking for candidates with exceptional editing and writing skills, strong editorial judgment, a keen sense of what makes research informative and newsworthy, and an ability to help other writers do their best work.

Candidates should have meaningful professional editing experience, including substantive or developmental editing of long-form content. We are much more interested in the depth and quality of that experience than in a specific number of years. Strong candidates might come from journalism, publishing, policy research, government, communications, consulting, or the nonprofit sector.

The strongest candidates will:

• Have demonstrated experience substantially improving complex drafts—not simply proofreading or polishing finished work.
• Be excellent writers themselves and comfortable drafting original material and rewriting when a piece needs more than editorial comments.
• Know how to make complicated ideas accessible without oversimplifying them.
• Be able to move easily between big-picture questions of argument and structure and close, sentence-level editing.
• Have strong organizational skills and be able to work effectively across multiple projects and short deadlines.
• Be thoughtful and direct in providing feedback and enthusiastic about helping researchers grow as writers and thinkers.
• Bring intellectual curiosity, good judgment, and a genuine interest in the issues shaping New York City's future.

Experience managing or mentoring writers or researchers is strongly preferred. Policy expertise is helpful, but what we really need is someone who relishes delving into unfamiliar topics and has a knack for strengthening a piece even without deep subject-matter expertise.

We welcome applications both from experienced editors and from rising editors who have demonstrated exceptional ability and are ready to take on more responsibility.

Compensation

This is a full-time position based in New York City, with staff working in person at our downtown Manhattan office three days per week and remotely two days per week. The salary range is $100,000–$125,000, commensurate with qualifications and experience.

The Center for an Urban Future deeply values the contributions of our dedicated staff. In addition to competitive pay, CUF offers comprehensive healthcare benefits with no out-of-pocket costs to employees; generous paid annual, parental, and sick leave; annual contributions to each employee's 401(k) retirement plan; and opportunities for professional development and advancement.

An independent, nonpartisan policy organization, the Center is an equal-opportunity employer that is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, physical or mental disability, marital status, veteran status, or other factors protected by law.

Habitat Magazine is looking for an experienced, curious and entrepreneurial journalist to help shape the next chapter of an independent New York publication.

This is not primarily a desk-editing job.

We're looking for someone who loves finding stories, reporting them and figuring out the best way to tell them. Someone who can sit down with a source and recognize that the most interesting story may not be the one we originally came to discuss. Someone who enjoys making complicated subjects understandable and useful. And someone who wants to help develop new editorial ideas, products and ways of reaching readers.

Founded in 1982, Habitat serves the people who govern and manage New York City's residential co-ops and condominiums. Our journalism covers an unusually broad range of subjects — governance, law, finance, building operations, energy, architecture, insurance, technology, real estate and the challenges that arise when New Yorkers own and operate buildings together.
We're looking for a journalist who finds that variety exciting.

What You'll Do
You'll work closely with Habitat's founder and editorial team while gradually assuming greater responsibility for Habitat's editorial direction.
Your responsibilities will include:
• Finding and developing original story ideas rather than simply waiting for assignments.
• Building relationships with board members, property managers, attorneys, architects, engineers, contractors and others throughout New York's co-op and condo community.
• Reporting, interviewing and writing features and other editorial content.
• Assigning and editing stories from staff writers, freelancers and expert contributors.
• Helping determine which stories Habitat should pursue and how they should be told.
• Working with our editorial and operations team to plan coverage and keep the editorial pipeline strong.
• Recognizing opportunities to turn a good story into something more — a newsletter, podcast, video, recurring feature, special editorial product or an idea we haven't tried yet.
• Developing new editorial concepts and experimenting with ways Habitat can better serve and grow its audience.
• Over time, assuming increasing responsibility for setting Habitat's editorial agenda and leading its journalism.

Who We're Looking For
You might be a senior reporter who's ready to have a larger role in shaping a publication. Or you might be an experienced editor who misses reporting, developing sources and finding stories yourself.
Either way, you should be a journalist first.
We're particularly interested in someone who:
• Has substantial professional reporting, writing and editing experience.
• Is intensely curious and enjoys learning about unfamiliar subjects.
• Has excellent interviewing skills and knows that the best question is often the follow-up question.
• Can recognize the larger story or practical lesson inside a complicated subject.
• Can translate legal, financial, technical and policy issues into engaging, accessible journalism.
• Has strong editorial judgment and can help other writers make their work better.
• Generates ideas and enjoys developing them with other people.
• Is comfortable experimenting with new formats and platforms.
• Likes meeting sources face-to-face and developing relationships over time.
• Wants to have a meaningful role in shaping the future of an established independent publication.
Experience covering New York City, housing, real estate, business, government, courts, architecture, infrastructure or related subjects would be valuable. Specific experience covering co-ops and condominiums is not required.

Location Matters
Habitat is a fully remote organization, but this position must be based in the New York metropolitan area.
That's intentional.
Some interviews can happen by phone or Zoom, but we believe good journalism also comes from being out in the world — meeting people for coffee, visiting buildings, attending events and developing relationships with sources over time.
Those relationships have been central to Habitat's journalism for more than four decades, and we want our Senior Editor to continue building them.

Why This Role Is Different
This is a hands-on editorial position with a leadership trajectory.
We're not looking for someone simply to fill an existing seat. We're looking for someone who wants to help determine what Habitat covers, how we cover it and what Habitat could become next.
You'll initially work closely with Habitat's founder on reporting, story development, sources and editorial judgment. As you learn Habitat and its audience, we expect you to take increasing ownership of editorial decisions and direction.
For the right journalist, this is an opportunity not simply to join a publication, but to help shape its future.

Description:
Job Title: Multiplatform Producer - NBC & Regional Sports Networks Central Content Desk (Freelance)

Business Segment: NBC Local

Posting Category: Editorial

Location: Hybrid remote or on-site at one of our content hubs: New York, NY., Los Angeles, CA., or Miami, FL.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a motivated and creative freelance multi-platform digital editor and reporter. This person will write, edit, publish and curate digital content of national interest for our NBC and Regional Sports Networks’ digital, social, broadcast and other platforms.

This is a temporary position for up to one year.

The freelance multiplatform editor will work with a team of national producers as well as local digital teams. The ideal candidate is someone who possesses great people skills; can write clean, compelling and creative content; possess excellent news judgment; and is a self-starter who does well under pressure.

The editor must have excellent communication skills to build relationships in remote environments as this role must actively and consistently communicate with the digital teams at the local stations.

A writing test is part of the application process.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute original content daily of national importance to our markets’ websites.

• Curate national content to our sites from a variety of wire and content partner sources.

• Assist local editors covering major breaking news stories, including editing stories, writing sidebars, contributing original reporting, building photo galleries, etc.

• Contribute to enterprise projects that support local news coverage.

• Look for opportunities to proactively build content for upcoming events and stories. Participate in broader strategic discussions.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Experience as an editor, writer or producer at a major news organization that creates content under tight deadlines.

• Must be willing to work nights and weekends.

• Experience working with an online publishing tool or content management system.

• Must be able to write on deadline with speed and accuracy using AP Style.

• Proven ability to successfully communicate with editors at different levels of experience and possess and a can-do mentality as unexpected challenges arise.

• Multimedia experience and familiarity with analytics and reporting tools are desirable.

• Must have the desire to work in a creative, demanding, competitive environment.

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in journalism, political science or English.

• Willingness to follow very specific systems and workflow, while also exercising excellent judgment to know when additional measures are needed.

• Bilingual Spanish and English skills a plus.

The Director of Audience Growth & Partnerships role is responsible for growing Skylight's reach and engagement while developing earned revenue through sponsorships, partnerships, advertising, and events.

Working in our fast-paced, start-up environment, you will drive audience engagement and establish Skylight as the definitive source for news, information and solutions related to the clean energy transition in residential buildings in New York City. You will also shape sponsorship and advertising offerings, expand relationships with organizations working in the clean tech and clean energy industries, and deliver a robust series of in-person events.

Success in this role requires understanding how audience and revenue reinforce each other: strong journalism builds trust; trust builds community; and community creates opportunities for sustainable growth. You will review newsletter metrics, develop community partnerships, test reader-engagement strategies, build sponsor relationships, and pitch organizations aligned with Skylight’s mission.

By building our community of passionate, like-minded doers and engaging partners to develop earned income for Skylight, the Director of Audience Growth & Partnerships will help us speed up the clean energy transition in New York City. Join us!

Responsibilities
Audience Development & Reader Engagement
- Develop strategies to grow the Skylight audience, executing across newsletter, social, search, events, referral, and other sources.
- Analyze audience data and identify opportunities to increase readership, engagement, retention, and loyalty.
- Build and manage newsletter growth initiatives; create and test engagement strategies that turn readers into active participants and repeat visitors.
- Develop a robust annual cadence of community-building initiatives, including our Clean Energy Building Tour series, reader events, and other programs.
- Collaborate closely with the editorial team to identify stories and other content with strong audience potential.
- Track and report on key audience metrics and develop actionable insights.

Revenue Partnerships, Sponsorships & Advertising
- Identify, cultivate, and manage sponsorship, partnership and advertising relationships aligned with Skylight's editorial values; build and manage a pipeline of prospective partners and advertisers.
- Develop and execute partnership strategies with aligned organizations, building on our substantial existing relationships and goodwill.
- Create sponsorship packages across newsletter, events, and branded opportunities.
- Lead outreach, pitching, negotiation, and relationship management.
- Ensure that commercial initiatives maintain a clear separation from editorial decision-making and preserve audience trust.

Team Leadership
- Supervise and mentor the part-time Audience Associate and Events Associate, helping establish priorities, workflows, and clear performance goals.
- Provide editorial and strategic guidance on audience engagement initiatives, community programming, and growth efforts.
- Foster strong collaboration across editorial, audience, events, and revenue initiatives.
- Ensure audience, events, and partnership efforts work together as part of a unified growth strategy.

Qualifications
- A passion for cities, clean energy, sustainability, and housing-related topics
- Demonstrated success growing newsletter audiences, increasing engagement, developing community-centered audience strategies, or building loyal readership
- Experience identifying, cultivating and managing sponsorship, partnership, or advertising relationships that generate earned revenue
- Strong understanding of digital publishing and audience analytics
- Excellent writing skills
- Strong project management and organizational abilities, with a keen attention to detail and the ability to meet tight deadlines
- Proficiency in using content management systems and online publishing tools
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- Comfort working in an entrepreneurial environment with evolving priorities and the ability to work independently

We anticipate successful candidates will have 5-7 years of relevant experience, though we welcome applicants whose experience may not follow a traditional path.

Kansas City is at a pivotal moment. Decisions made at City Hall shape everything from housing affordability and neighborhood development to public safety, transportation and economic opportunity. Yet local government has become increasingly difficult for residents to follow and understand.

The Beacon is making a significant investment in local government accountability reporting because we believe engaged and informed communities depend on clear, independent reporting that explains how decisions are made, who influences them and how they affect people's lives.

We're seeking an experienced journalist to become our Senior City Hall Reporter, focused exclusively on Kansas City, Missouri. The successful candidate will help set the agenda for local government accountability coverage at The Beacon and develop deep expertise on one of the region's most consequential beats.

This reporter will follow the people, policies, power structures and public dollars that shape the city while helping residents understand not only what is happening at City Hall, but why it matters.

This is an opportunity to build deep expertise on one of the region's most important beats and produce accountability journalism that informs public conversation, strengthens civic participation and helps Kansas Citians better understand their local government. You'll have the time and support to pursue ambitious reporting, follow stories over months rather than days and illuminate issues that might otherwise go uncovered.

The successful candidate will be a self-starter who thrives on identifying stories others miss, developing deep sources and holding powerful institutions accountable through fair, rigorous and independent reporting.

The Role
You own social engagement, community presence, and content distribution at InstaLILY. Our Senior Content Marketer writes the social posts (LinkedIn, X). You handle everything else: engagement and amplification on LinkedIn and X, the Reddit and niche trade community work where buyers actually hang out, newsletter distribution, creator partnerships, brand monitoring, and event social presence.

Our buyers — operators in industrial distribution, healthcare, pharma, supply chain, manufacturing, automotive, construction, food & beverage, and field services — live in specific corners of the internet. Your job is to make sure InstaLILY shows up where they already are, and shows up well.

You absorb voice quickly, hold the brand line yourself, and ship with real autonomy. You pick the angles, measure the results, and adjust without daily oversight. You know the difference between a corporate brand presence and a credible peer voice — and you operate as the latter.

What You'll Do
-LinkedIn engagement: Manage comments, amplification, and engagement on our CEO, COO, and brand LinkedIn posts. Our Senior Brand Writer writes the posts; you build the community around them and drive measurable engagement growth.
-X engagement: Replies, retweets, monitoring, and reactive engagement on our CEO, COO, and brand X. You don't write the strategic posts — you build the conversation around them.
-Reddit and niche trade communities: Write thoughtful posts and engage authentically in priority verticals — Reddit subs, LinkedIn groups, trade association forums, and other places our buyers and operators actually spend time. Build credible presence over time.
-Newsletter distribution: Drive subscriber growth via social, monitor performance, and ensure newsletters land cleanly with each audience.
-Repurpose long-form: Turn the Senior Brand Writer's long-form pieces, newsletters, and case studies into pull quotes, threads, snippets, Reddit-friendly summaries.
-Creator and podcast partnerships: Outreach to podcasters, newsletter writers, and X creators. Build a podcast pipeline for our CEO and COO.
-Event amplification: Drive awareness and engagement around our events — summits, fireside chats, and conferences. Promotion before, recaps after, and engagement with attendees and our broader audience.
-Real-time presence: Stay close to what's happening in AI and our verticals. Join conversations and ship reactive content when there's something worth saying.
-Surface ideas and ship: What's getting traction in our verticals? What conversations are we missing? Form your POV, bring it to the team, and ship the ideas you spot.
-Run experiments: Different formats, posting times, community angles. Measure what works. Kill what doesn't.

What You'll Need
-3–5 years of social or community experience, ideally in B2B SaaS, developer tools, or technical communities. DevRel backgrounds welcome.
-Strong short-form writing: You write thoughtful Reddit posts, replies, and niche community content. Voice, clarity, and platform-fluency matter. Show us 2-3 writing samples — including a personal social feed if you have one.
-Multi-platform fluency: Reddit, X, and LinkedIn at minimum. Bonus for experience in industry-specific forums or LinkedIn groups.
-Native community instinct: You read communities for tone before you post. You participate as a peer, not as a brand presence.
-AI-native: Daily user of Claude and frontier AI tools. You use AI to multiply your output, not replace your thinking. You know what AI is good and bad at and push past surface-level usage. Bonus for hands-on experience building custom prompt libraries, GPTs, or workflow automations.
-Operates independently: Picks angles, measures, and adjusts without daily check-ins. You hold the brand line yourself.
Takes direct feedback well: You absorb specific input and iterate fast.
-Numerical fluency: Comfortable with social analytics (X, LinkedIn, Reddit, brand mention tools, HubSpot email). You measure what's working.
-Curious about our verticals: Willing to spend real time learning what our buyers care about. You'll have access to client calls and product internals to ramp.
-Hybrid availability: 5 days/week in our New York office for first 6 months; then 4 days/week in person and 1 day remote.

What You'll Get
-Real traction: The product works, customers are live, and we've already driven over $200M in incremental revenue for customers. This isn't a bet on an unproven thesis.
-AI-native: In how we build, how we work, and what we sell.
Visibility: Your work sits at the center of how the world sees InstaLILY — what you do here will be visible quickly.
-Stage: Early enough to shape how the company scales.
-Culture: Offices in New York, San Francisco, and London — sharp, low-ego team that keeps raising the bar.
-Growth: The learning curve is steep.

Compensation and Benefits
-Salary Range: $90,000–$110,000 per year, commensurate with experience
-Equity: Generous stock options awards and refreshers for top performers
-Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Well-being stipend, In-office lunch reimbursement, PTO and 10 US Federal Holidays, and more!

Entry level Business News Researcher / Reporter in the New York Bureau of The Yomiuri Shimbun

Qualifications: Applicants must have a good knowledge of current affairs, and especially business news. An interest in journalism and Japan is required. Applicants should already be based in New York region.

Job Description: Main duties involve assisting the Yomiuri Shimbun’s New York based Japanese business correspondent by covering events, conferences, company earnings calls, financial markets; tracking relevant stories; arranging and conducting interviews; doing research and coming up with story ideas. One area of special focus is big tech (Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple) and issues connected to artificial intelligence.

In addition to reporting on business and covering financial markets, you may at times have to cover other areas (including national politics, sports, etc.).

Since the articles are written in Japanese, there are no byline opportunities for this position.

Annual salary is 40,000 plus additional overtime and full benefits package.

Opportunity Available: Managing Editor
Job Description: Managing Editor, The Daily Catch
The Daily Catch
Location: Red Hook / Rhinebeck / Clinton, NY in the Hudson Valley of New York State (not Red Hook, Brooklyn)
Position: Full-time

Benefits
3 weeks PTO
12 paid holidays
Moving allowance
Health insurance stipend

Salary Range:
$100,000-$120,000, commensurate with experience

The Daily Catch, a dynamic, award-winning, non-profit digital news site covering Red Hook, Rhinebeck, and nearby environs in New York‘s Hudson Valley, seeks a managing editor to help lead the organization’s day-to-day news coverage and operations while playing a key role in charting newsroom strategy.

Reporting directly to the founder and editor-in-chief, the ideal candidate has sharp news judgment, is a skilled editor, is highly ethical, and enjoys working collaboratively to produce outstanding local coverage.

We’re looking for a confident leader with at least 5 years of newsroom experience as an editor or a senior reporter with proven ability to lead coverage, make sound editorial decisions, coach and mentor staff, ensure workflows are efficient, and meet deadlines.

Why join us?
Now in our fifth year, The Daily Catch is known for deep reporting of government news and community issues, training young journalists, and active community engagement. As a non-profit, we have significant financial support from our readers as well as from major donors and foundations, industry grants, local advertisers, and sponsors.

As the organization enters its next phase of growth, the managing editor will be an important partner in shaping our vision and success. In addition to our robust website, we produce an array of popular newsletters, a weekly podcast, and we post stories, photos and videos to social media every day.

Northern Dutchess County, New York, where we operate, is a vibrant, culturally rich region that offers an exceptional quality of life. The area blends rural charm and scenic beauty with a highly engaged and intellectually curious population. The area is enriched by Bard College, Catskills hiking trails, rolling farmland, historic hamlets, proximity to national historic sites such as the Vanderbilt and FDR estates, dining opportunities at local restaurants and the Culinary Institute of America, well-known art, music, dance and theatre venues, and access to New York City via Amtrak and MetroNorth train service.

Key Responsibilities of the job:
Provide strong editorial leadership and recommendations for news coverage and enterprise, working in close partnership with the Editor-in-Chief (EIC).
Directly assign and edit stories of two reporters, manage our part-time senior editor and read behind him, and help the EIC guide the work of other editorial employees as needed. (We have three full-time reporters, each of whom covers both municipal government and a subject beat, and we have just hired an arts and entertainment reporter. We also engage freelance contributors.)
Develop and maintain daily and weekly coverage plans across text, video, and visual storytelling formats.

Edit stories for accuracy, clarity, tone, and narrative strength and help ensure all coverage meets the highest standards for accuracy, fairness, ethics, and transparency.
Help ensure newsletters are well organized in terms of story hierarchy, have engaging headlines, smart intros, and are well-edited.

Collaborate with the EIC to shape editorial priorities and long-term coverage strategies.
Help build newsroom production systems that are sustainable, humane, and rigorous.
Meet with community leaders and develop an informed point of view on the political, arts, and education landscape here.
Work with the EIC and publisher on supporting business development and integrated projects that cross both editorial operations and revenue generation.

Note:
If you recently applied for a similar position, please consider applying anew. We are still seeking the right candidate for this opportunity.

We are looking for a creative, dogged, and news-obsessed producer to join the Free Press team. In this role, you’ll work closely with on-screen talent and producers to oversee multiple weekly social videos, news videos, and series, covering current events, domestic politics, foreign policy, culture and tech.

You’ll own the process end-to-end—overseeing weekly social publishing strategy, generating ideas, sharpening pitches, guiding scripts, shaping edits, and delivering videos that are high quality, compelling, and original. This is a role for someone who can move quickly without sacrificing quality, has strong editorial instincts, and knows how to turn complex topics into videos people want to watch.

Hiring Salary Range: $130,000.00 - 150,000.00.