Copy Editor, The Verge Freelance Full Time

The Verge is seeking a sharp, thoughtful copy editor to join our ambitious team and uphold our high editorial standards. Copy editors are the last line of defense before something is published on our site or channels, ensuring our work is accessible, clear, inclusive, and accurate. As we launch subscription products such as our paid newsletters, this work will be even more vital. This role requires a language expert on the breadth of topics The Verge covers who feels a deep responsibility to get things right. The right person will be a strong collaborator with every team at The Verge and have the ability to context-shift between a wide variety of topics.

The Verge is an ambitious multimedia effort founded in 2011 to examine how technology will change life in the future for a massive mainstream audience.

The Verge is part of Vox Media, the leading modern media company. We guide our audience from discovery to obsession. We inspire essential conversations about what’s now, what’s next, and what’s possible.

As a community of journalists and storytellers, business professionals, creators and technologists, we believe it is a moral and business imperative to amplify voices: to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization and media. This applies to our candidates, our teams, our storytelling, our creative work, and our platforms, products, and partnerships.

• Manage and update The Verge’s style guide, which maintains guidance on tone, voice, and language use across all published work. This includes producing topical guidance for newsworthy moments. 
• Copy edit text on our website, channels, podcasts, and videos from a large team of reporters, producers, and freelancers. This includes editing our weekly paid newsletters, Command Line and Notepad. 
• Serve as a stakeholder in our ambitious special projects, working closely with The Verge’s managing editor and deputy editors on production. 
• Co-write The Verge’s internal newsletter, ensuring language guidelines and standards are clearly communicated and enforced across our wide team of writers and editors.
• Copy edit and fact-check a variety of off-platform copy, including brand marketing, events promotion, and print projects. 
• Work closely with editorial leadership to develop, QA, and uphold standards across written, visual, and audio content.

Preferred qualifications: 

• Minimum three years’ experience in copy editing, preferably for a digital-first news organization
• A commitment to the highest editorial standards of accuracy, clarity, and inclusivity
• The ability to work quickly and collaboratively under tight deadlines amid a busy news environment
• A sharp eye for mistakes in grammar, spelling, and punctuation
• A strong interest in topics The Verge covers, including technology, internet culture, transportation, and science
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively; excellent communication skills 
• Experience in fact-checking, editing data visualization, or performing sensitivity reads a bonus.

If you think you have what it takes, but don’t meet every single point in our job posting, please apply with a cover letter to let us know how you believe you can bring your unique skills to the Vox Media team or get in touch! We’ve hired chefs who became editors, DJs who became UX designers, and sommeliers who became writers.

This job is remote, but ability to work East Coast hours is preferred.

This is a permanent, full-time position. This job is benefits-eligible. We pride ourselves in providing comprehensive benefits to support all of our employees wherever they are in life. You can find more information about our benefits here.

This role is a part of the Vox Media Union, represented by the Writers Guild of America, East

Vox Media is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can show up as their authentic selves and create their best work. We recognize that great stories, platforms, products and services come from people with all manner of backgrounds and experiences. We recognize that our commitments require ongoing work and sustained attention, as well as adaptation to new insights and best practices. We keep our diversity data public for the sake of accountability, transparency and communication. Learn more about our values here, and our approach to corporate citizenship here. 

Vox Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law. Vox Media will also consider all qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable Fair Chance laws. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations as part of the application process to candidates with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation as part of the application process, please contact our People & Culture team (recruitment@voxmedia.com).

Our recruiting team will go through applications in a timely manner. Please note that our recruiting team will only contact you from @voxmedia.com email addresses, never via text message. Read more about how our recruiting team operates, and how to protect yourself from recruitment fraud, here.