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Senior Staff Editor, Well

New York, NY💼 Full-time💰 $124,980–$124,980🗓 2026-08-31 → 2026-09-27

Core

Senior editor for The New York Times Well desk, editing weekly newsletters and reporting on health and wellness using evidence-based journalism.

Role type

Senior Staff Editor (Health & Wellness)

Builds

Weekly newsletters, news articles, reported features, visual pieces, and profiles for The New York Times digital and print platforms.

Domain

Health, wellness, and science journalism

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Health/science/lifestyle journalism, editing, supervising reporters and freelancers, digital publishing, science literacy, trend spotting, deadline management

Preferred skills

Service journalism, experimentation, cross-department collaboration

Technologies

Digital publishing platforms, CMS

Responsibilities

Conceive, assign, and edit articles; supervise beat reporters and develop freelance contributors; provide second edits; manage digital life of stories (headlines, summaries, captions); collaborate with art team.

Seniority

Senior Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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