# Staff Writer/ Editor

Position Summary CFR is building its efforts to cover the news and create relevant content, and this hire will be central to that work. The Staff Writer-Editor monitors global developments, produces clear and timely foreign policy explainers for general audiences, and edits a range of CFR-produced content-from expert commentaries and explainers to trackers and other coverage formats. The ideal candidate brings newsroom instincts, judgment, and pacing to a mission-driven environment. This role will primarily support text-based content, so candidates should have experience editing or writing articles, explainers, analyses, etc. We are hiring two people for this full-time position, both will be based in CFR’s New York City office at least four days per week. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays are considered institutional anchor days where all staff are required to be onsite. CFR’s remote working schedule is subject to change. Essential Functions/Responsibilities Writes explainers and other digital content across a broad range of foreign policy topics for general audiences Edits and copyedits commentaries, explainers, trackers, and other materials produced by CFR fellows and Digital C

- **Id**: 490420
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cfr-staff-writer-editor>
- **Role**: Communications
- **Role family**: Communications
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-07T00:13:25Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-25
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T08:18:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 69
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4421
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Health insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Publishing, Nonprofits & Foundations, Think Tanks & Policy Research

## Company

- **Id**: 15583
- **Name**: Cfr
- **Domain**: cfr.org
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cfr>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: iCIMS

## Salary

- **Min**: 69000
- **Max**: 75000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 75000

## Technologies

- **Airtable** — Optional: no
- **ChatGPT** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 69

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-07T00:13:25Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 8
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.4
- **P active**: 0.715
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 69
- **Expected fill days**: 33
- **Reasons**: seen:50, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 75000
- **Is top pay**: no

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