Life and Culture Editor Singapore at Insider Inc

Insider Inc. launched a global news bureau in Singapore in January 2021. We’re a team of 9 people split across news, business, and lifestyle desks. We’re looking for an editor who has a knack for telling stories in a conversational way and who wants to set the vision for Insider’s lifestyle coverage out of Asia. This is a full-time position based in Singapore.

We want you to help us answer questions like: What are millennials in China buying? What’s the most fascinating real-estate story in Japan right now? How has travel in Thailand changed because of the pandemic? What’s going on with all of Malaysia’s abandoned real-estate projects? What new status symbols are evolving among APAC’s 1%? That’s in addition to covering any major lifestyle news that breaks in the US overnight. This is a lifestyle desk with business undertones, and we are looking to create, not follow, the news cycle.

The editor will report directly to the bureau chief. To start, you will manage two reporters (real estate and visual features beats). You will also be given a freelance budget and asked to regularly commission stories from reporters across the APAC region. The best candidate for this role has the ability to toggle between macro-level strategizing and micro-level execution. In addition to the above, themes you’ll be asked to commission stories on include travel, youth culture, and wealth.

On a daily basis, you will be tasked with approving pitches, assigning stories, and running edits. We’ll ask you to help recruit talent for the desk and contribute your own writing.The reporters you’ll manage write 1-2 stories a day in the 300- to 500-word range, and work on longer features in the background. 

The ideal editor will:

• Have a finely tuned story sense: You know how to assign stories and discover angles that generate conversations
• Have at least 3 years experience working in a newsroom, either as an editor or as a reporter
• Think about stories both in terms of their narrative and their images
• Have the ability to write and edit quickly and accurately
• Want to work on small team and be excited by the prospect of building a new desk
• Be deadline driven and able to assign stories with an appropriate word count and scope
• Have experience writing headlines and working in a metrics-driven environment
• Exhibit a sense of urgency around the news cycle
• Be comfortable working in AP style
• Be eager to write and report themselves, especially while the team is still growing
• Have familiarity with social media distribution and SEO 

If this sounds like your dream job, apply here with a single PDF containing your resume/CV and cover letter explaining why you are the perfect fit for this role, and links to your previous work.

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