Bilingual Editor (Arabic and English)

About the role

The Palestine Reporting Lab is seeking an experienced bilingual (Arabic and English) editor to help shape ambitious investigative, research-based, enterprise and narrative journalism about Palestine and Palestinian communities. The position is fully remote.

Responsibilities

• Help reporters and fellow editors fashion and sharpen story ideas, hypotheses, and lines of inquiry;
• Help build ambitious and realistic reporting plans and research methodologies;
• Identify gaps and opportunities for collaborations with co-reporters, researchers, and other journalism or media organizations;
• Help reporters think through sourcing, verification, and interview plans;
• Shape and deepen narrative approaches;
• Provide sustained editorial support, draft-by-draft, including structural edits and careful and artful line-edits, and guide a story from inception to the fact-checking and translation processes, all the way through publication, with rigor, care, and ambition;
• Coordinate and design Arabic language social media posts, and help to administer operations for Arabic-only reporters and partners, including facilitating contracts and in-meeting interpretation.

Qualifications

• At least five years of journalism experience (and/or experience in a related field like human rights research, visual investigations, policy analysis, academia) with editing experience strongly preferred;
• A strong track record of leading investigative, in-depth, enterprise, narrative, and/or long-form journalism as an editor, reporter, or both;
• Fluency in spoken English and Arabic. The ability to write and edit in Arabic for accuracy, nuance, tone, rhythm, and clarity is a must. Ideally, the candidate will also be fluent in written English;
• Excellent project management and organizational skills, and the ability to keep complex stories organized, often over many months;
• Familiarity and expertise in at least some core journalistic research methods–which may include document and data-based reporting, OSINT reporting, visual investigations techniques, source development, verification and fact-checking, following the money, and other investigative methods;
• Experience and capacity to manage teams of reporters as well as partnerships with other journalism organizations;
• An openness to supporting reporters and reporting projects by taking on co-reporting tasks, making calls, chasing down information, and even conducting ground reporting, as needed to support a project;
• A strong narrative sensibility and the ability to help writers build stories that uncover something new, compel audiences to follow along, and hopefully to have an impact;
• A commitment to journalistic standards, including judgment around fairness;
• A collaborative approach to support reporters and other editors on the team, and to work constructively with editors at partner outlets;
• The ability to remain calm and empathetic while juggling multiple ambitious and often fast-paced projects;
• Comfort working across multiple time zones and with diverse colleagues and partners across the world;
• Experience in making or facilitating narrative and storytelling work in multiple mediums and/or in nontraditional formats is a plus;
• Experience covering or working on or in Palestine, and knowledge of Palestinian politics and society is highly valued.