Job Description

For The Times to achieve our mission, we need to do everything we can to build trust with current and potential audiences and make sure that our journalism stands out for its credibility in a crowded information landscape. To that end, we believe it is crucial to help readers understand our original reporting, the expertise of our staff, the steps we take to ensure accuracy and fairness and – especially in the age of A.I. – the human judgment behind our work. 

That approach is already visible in some places in our report. Our enhanced bylines highlight the expertise of our reporters. Listeners of The Daily hear firsthand accounts of conversations with sources. Our investigative articles often describe our source material in detail.  

Responsibilities:

We are looking for a leader to build on our trust and credibility efforts. As a deputy editor in Standards, you will be the journalistic lead in efforts to unlock opportunities to enhance our trust.

This is an exciting role for a senior journalist who is excited to not just shape the future of journalism at The New York Times, but also to help increase the trust in media for millions of readers around the world. You will report into the Standards Editor.

This is a hybrid position based in New York and includes regular attendance in the office each week per your departmental guidance.

Guide and build on the work of the three-person newsroom trust team to analyze our report and develop projects to enhance trust in areas from the execution of our journalism to our off-platform outreach. 

Be an adviser to newsroom and enterprise leaders on projects across The Times. This may include evaluating a specific idea from a trust lens, measuring performance, tracking and ensuring progress, promoting the importance of this work, and developing best practices for desks to follow.

Help lead efforts to develop and launch new product experiences to convey the trust and credibility of The Times, working collaboratively with the product, design and engineering team to develop hypotheses and run experiments. 

Partner with audience research to develop an understanding of how projects are affecting the way readers perceive The Times.

Basic Qualifications:

At least five years of experience working in a news media organization

Excellent reporting, writing or editing skills, and news judgment

Understanding of mobile and digital trends, and a sense of The Times’s competitive landscape

Experience working with product, design and technology teams

A familiarity with or interest in Times standards and what’s needed to adapt them to new environments

Preferred Qualifications:

Familiarity with the range of our report, and a sense of how our existing coverage can be used to convey trust and credibility

A proven ability to build consensus, earn the trust of colleagues and motivate others

Enthusiasm for data-informed decision-making, tracking progress and measuring impact

Understanding of, or interest in, how product development works regarding prototyping and beta testing to create new experiences, and using data to make decisions