[Hiring] Editor II, Network Desk @NPR

Role Description

The Network Desk represents NPR’s strategic commitment to deepening, broadening, and transforming how we partner with Member stations and Regional Hubs. As the Northeast Regional Editor, you will serve as the essential bridge between local station newsrooms across the Northeast and national NPR news programs and digital platforms. In this role, you will help identify, curate, and elevate distinctive local reporting to national audiences while helping stations plan and execute ambitious enterprise and breaking news coverage.

The ideal candidate brings a collaborative editorial mindset, sharp line-editing skills across audio and text, and a commitment to expanding the diversity of sources and stories emerging from the region.

NPR defines its Northeast Region as ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, and DC.

This is a union represented role covered under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with SAG-AFTRA. This is an NPR editorial role covered under the terms of the NPR Ethics Handbook. All editorial staff are bound by this guidance.

Responsibilities

• Communicate and collaborate daily with journalists, news directors, and editors across Northeast regional hubs and Member stations to identify, develop, and coordinate coverage with national resonance.
• Edit, fact-check, and supervise the preparation of multiplatform material (audio, digital, broadcast) from station reporters and freelancers, ensuring all work meets NPR’s journalistic standards of fairness, accuracy, and technical quality.
• Coordinate rapid-response breaking news coverage from the region, directing station updates and dispatches for national shows, digital platforms, and hourly newscasts.
• Maintain ongoing communication with NPR daily news magazines (Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Here & Now), podcasts, and the digital news desk regarding story length, angles, framing, and scheduling.
• Track evolving regional news cycles, maintain forward-looking editorial calendars, and spot emerging cultural, political, and systemic trends across the Northeast.
• Partner with Regional Hubs to conduct workshops, coaching sessions, and feedback discussions that strengthen station reporting capabilities and familiarize partners with NPR production workflows.
• Champion story ideas that reflect the full demographic and geographical diversity of the Northeast, actively expanding regional source networks.
• Coordinate administrative desk workflows, including processing freelancer agreements, story commissions, and reporter filing payments in accordance with established agreements.
• Partner with fellow regional editors and Network Desk leadership to refine communication pipelines, eliminate operational silos, and improve newsroom workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional journalism experience at a reputable news organization.
• 3+ years of experience editing regional or national daily news coverage across audio and digital platforms.
• Demonstrated track record editing breaking news under tight deadlines with precision and journalistic integrity.
• Proven experience editing enterprise, investigative, or feature journalism, guiding stories from pitch to final audio/digital production.
• Sound journalistic judgment rooted in rigorous fact-checking, balance, fairness, and adherence to editorial ethics.
• Track record of building collaborative partnerships with decentralized reporters, freelancers, or station partners.
• Experience editing for both the ear (audio broadcast/podcasting) and the eye (digital news writing).
• Willingness to travel up to 10% of the time for visits to member stations and other stakeholders.

Preferred Skills

• Prior reporting or editing experience within the public media system (Member stations, regional news hubs, or public media collaborations).
• Deep familiarity with the socio-political, economic, and cultural landscape of the Northeast region.
• Bilingual or multilingual fluency relevant to regional coverage areas.

Education Requirement

• Bachelor's degree in journalism, communications, or a related field, or equivalent relevant work experience.

Work Location

• This is a remote required role. The employee is required to work at a designated remote work location within the designated coverage area: ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, or DC.

Job Type

• This is a full time, exempt position.

Compensation

• The U.S. based anticipated salary range for this opportunity is $110,000 - $112,000 plus benefits.
• NPR offers access to comprehensive benefits for employees and dependents, including health and wellness, paid time off, and financial well-being.

Benefits

• Access to health and wellness options.
• Paid time off.
• Financial well-being plans including medical, dental, vision, life/ accidental death and dismemberment, long-term disability, short-term disability, and voluntary retirement savings.