The Weekend Editor oversees the organization’s news coverage during weekends, serving as the primary editorial decision-maker outside of standard weekday operations. Reporting to the Managing Editor, this role is responsible for managing reporters, setting priorities, and guiding coverage of breaking news, developing events, and planned stories. The Weekend Editor ensures all weekend content meets high standards for accuracy, fairness, speed, and editorial judgment while reflecting the organization’s mission and maintaining credibility across platforms.
Primary Responsibilities
Set editorial priorities for weekend coverage, identifying breaking news, developing stories, and planned assignments in line with newsroom strategy.
Exercise editorial judgment to determine story importance, placement, and resource allocation.
Oversee reporting, editing, and publication of weekend stories, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and balance.
Lead breaking news coverage during weekends, making real-time editorial decisions and coordinating limited resources.
Manage weekend reporters and editors by assigning stories, setting expectations, monitoring deadlines, and providing guidance.
Monitor the news cycle to ensure timely updates and appropriate follow-through as stories evolve.
Coordinate with senior editorial leadership and legal counsel, as needed, to assess legal, ethical, and reputational risk.
Collaborate with homepage editors, audience teams, and producers to support effective story placement and continuity across newsroom operations.
Experience & Requirements
Background in journalism, communications, political science, or a related field preferred
Strong editorial judgment in news journalism
Exceptional editing and fact-checking skills
Ability to lead newsroom coverage with limited resources
Deep understanding of news cycles, politics, and current events
Ability to make sound decisions under deadline pressure
Additional Information
To learn more about Daily Wire, please visit the following Daily Wire Facebook and YouTube page links:
Daily Wire provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
Please Note: Daily Wire participates in E-Verify and performs background checks on all new hires. We will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s form I-9 to confirm work authorization. Thank you!
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be turned off in our systems. You can set your browser to block these cookies, but then some parts of the website might not work.
Security
User experience
Target group oriented cookies
These cookies are set through our website by our advertising partners. They may be used by these companies to profile your interests and show you relevant advertising elsewhere.
Google Analytics
Google Ads
We use cookies
🍪
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to personalize content, optimize the user experience and to indvidualize and evaluate advertising. By clicking Okay or activating an option in the cookie settings, you agree to this.
The best remote jobs via email
Join 5'000+ people getting weekly alerts with remote jobs!