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Editor, Cannonball

The New York Times· Audio
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New York, NY$145k - $160kfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior editor to lead Cannonball, the New York Times weekly culture show hosted by Wesley Morris. Responsibilities include shaping episode ideas, managing a multidisciplinary production team, integrating the show with The New York Times Magazine, and driving editorial and production quality across episodes.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as an editorial partner to Wesley Morris, shaping episode ideas, refining arguments, and translating his voice into a compelling episode.
  • Come up with guest ideas and manage bringing them in and staging conversations with Wesley.
  • Lead the editorial process from pitch through final cut, including story development, scripting, structural editing, and post-production feedback.
  • Collaborate with producers, editors, and Magazine and Shows leadership to ensure editorial clarity, creative ambition, and high production quality across every episode.
  • Manage and mentor a multidisciplinary team, setting expectations and fostering a collaborative culture.
  • Oversee production timelines and workflows, ensuring deadlines are met without compromising quality.
  • Maintain a strong editorial voice while expanding creatively to reach new audiences.
  • Develop new formats and concepts for a still-evolving show.
  • Work with Magazine leadership to integrate the show into the Magazine's editorial plans, voice and design.
  • Partner with audience, analytics, and platform teams to understand viewer/listener behavior and refine format, distribution, and growth strategy.
  • Work cross-functionally with other newsroom desks and teams for collaboration and editorial alignment.
  • Work with Legal and Standards to keep the show free of corrections and legal challenges.
  • Demonstrate support for journalistic independence and the mission of The New York Times.
  • Report to the Magazine's Deputy Editor overseeing Culture.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience editing/producing cultural coverage—criticism, cultural reporting, and storytelling in a variety of formats.
  • 5+ years experience in audio and/or video production and editing, including managing soup-to-nuts production of long-form, conversational shows.
  • Deep interest in movies, TV, books, music, art, and all forms of culture.
  • Sophisticated sense of how criticism can work to open up, explore, and define a work of art by reading closely and placing in larger context.
  • Sharp instincts for how cultural ideas intersect with politics, history, technology, identity, business, and everyday life.
  • Familiarity with digital storytelling formats.
  • Experience working with talent.
  • Highly skilled editing across episode structure, pacing, line editing, and group edits.
  • Belief in The New York Times's mission and commitment to journalistic independence.

Skills

Required:Editorial leadershipAudio/Video productionGuest booking and interviews
Nice to have:Team management

Benefits

  • Variable pay possibilities such as annual bonus and restricted stock.
  • Medical, dental and vision benefits; Flexible Spending Accounts; 401(k) with company match; employee stock purchase plan; paid vacation; paid sick days; paid parental leave; tuition reimbursement; professional development programs.
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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