Current Positions

Assistant Web Editor

The Nation seeks an Assistant Web Editor. This is a full-time, entry-level position working out of our New York City offices. Applicants should have excellent news judgment, possess strong copy editing, photo editing and web production skills, and thrive under deadline pressure. The hire will assist the Web Editor in producing web and multimedia packages for The Nation and curating TheNation.com, will oversee intern fact-checkers, will help develop new editorial features, and will handle social media and community responsibilities. Enthusiasm, demonstrated research and writing ability and experience with web-based media projects essential. Our ideal candidate will have a strong design sense, knowledge of software development and competency with HTML and CSS. The Nation offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits. We are an equal opportunity employer. Send resume and cover letter to webjob@thenation.com. No phone calls please.

About The Nation

The Nation is America's oldest weekly magazine and the most widely read journal of opinion. Founded in 1865,The Nation has long been regarded as one of the country's definitive journalistic voices. Our contemporary writers include Naomi Klein, Gore Vidal, William Greider, Barbara Ehrenreich, Walter Mosley, Katha Pollitt, Bill Moyers, Patricia Williams, Eric Alterman, Katrina vanden Heuvel and "deadline poet" Calvin Trillin, while the Books & the Arts section features vibrant reviews of books and films, as well as poems and interviews. The Nation won the 2008 National Magazine Award for public interest journalism, and received two George Polk Awards for Joshua Kors's exposé on the stunning denial of benefits to veterans returning from Iraq and Jeremy Scahill's reporting on the Blackwater military contracting scandal. Our web presence, TheNation.com, is a heavily trafficked site with videos, podcasts, breaking political news, books and cultural coverage, and web-only exclusives that take the magazine's commitment to public-interest journalism online.