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This editor will oversee and expand Dispatches, the opening section of the print magazine. The editor will be expected to generate a wide range of ideas for arguments, columns, and regular features; edit and top-edit the articles that make up the front of the book and ensure that the section has depth, integrity, variety, wit, and style. This editor should have a deep love of magazines and a capacious sense of what makes them most dynamic and compelling. Impeccable editorial judgment and devotion to the craft of writing are musts.\nQualifications:\nSignificant experience assigning and editing articles across disciplines and in a range of styles, including opinion, reporting, humor, and argued essays\nEditorial imagination and intellect; an eye for original ideas; the ability to build a front of book that surprises, delights, challenges, and edifies readers \nLarge and varied network of writers, scholars, and other potential contributors\nA record of publishing writers of diverse backgrounds\nAbility to guide writers and fellow editors to do their best work\nA knack for display copy and other elements of magazine packaging and web publishing\nKey responsibilities:\nAssigning and editing stories for Dispatches\nWorking closely with both staff writers and freelancers; expanding our network of contributors\nHelping to ensure that our coverage is compelling, thoughtful, original, and maximally ambitious\nShepherding pieces through copyedit and fact-checking; working with teams across the newsroom to enhance the presentation and distribution of stories\nSalary minimum: $105,000; Salary maximum: $175,000\nThis position is based in New York City or Washington, D.C.\nThis is a Guild position.\nAbout The Atlantic:\nThe Atlantic has, for more than 160 years, advanced ideas that matter and sparked global conversation on the most important issues of our time. We aim to bring clarity and original thinking to questions of consequence, on topics ranging from politics, the economy, and global affairs to technology, science, and culture. 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