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Business Editor

New York, NY💼 Full-time💰 $240,000–$240,000🗓 2026-08-31 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the Business desk at The New York Times, driving competitive news coverage, generating scoops, and overseeing a large team of journalists across multiple formats.

Role type

Senior Managing Editor (Business Desk)

Builds

Business news coverage (text, video, photo, interactive graphics) for a general interest audience and influential powerbrokers.

Domain

Media & Entertainment / Journalism

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Strategic leadership, team management, story assignment, investigative journalism, editing, news judgment, cross-functional collaboration

Preferred skills

Coaching large teams, diplomatic leadership, innovative storytelling vision

Technologies

N/A

Responsibilities

Lead the Business report, drive competitive coverage and enterprise stories, set desk goals, oversee performance, develop workplace culture, collaborate across the newsroom

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with significant leadership scope

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