# Senior Editor

The Atlantic is seeking a creative and entrepreneurial senior editor. 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. Qualifications: Significant experience assigning and editing articles across disciplines and in a range of styles, including opinion, reporting, humor, and argued essays Editorial imagination and intellect; an eye for original ideas; the ability to build a front of book that surprises, delights, challenges, and edifies readers Large and varied network of writers, scholars, and other potential contributors A record of publishing writers of diverse backgrounds Ability to guide writers and fellow editors to do their best work A knack for display copy and other elements of magazine packagi

- **Id**: 326458
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/the-atlantic-senior-editor>
- **Role**: Communications
- **Role family**: Communications
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Washington, United States, New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-31T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T04:27:10Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 76
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3398
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Media & Entertainment, Publishing, Digital Media

## Company

- **Id**: 11432
- **Name**: The Atlantic
- **Domain**: theatlantic.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/the-atlantic>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

## Salary

- **Min**: 105000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 105000

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 76

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-05T16:57:22Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 23
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.65
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 76
- **Expected fill days**: 40
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 105000
- **Is top pay**: no

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