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Role details
- Hourly rate: $35-40 per hour
- Hours: up to 25 hours per week
- Duration: October 2025 through December 2025 (with potential to renew for 2026)
- Location: Remote (U.S. only)
- Application deadline: Oct 24, 2025
- Department: Editorial
- Travel: None
The 19th is hiring a part-time editorial production assistant to help with story planning, production and measurement tasks to ensure The 19th’s journalism and partnerships collaborations are published in an engaging and timely manner for current and prospective audiences.
This part-time newsroom role is for up to 25 hours per week. In a typical week, this role would spend 15 hours executing partnerships tasks such as tracking republications and communications with partners and 10 hours per week executing production tasks such as creating site posts for partnership stories and non-story content and assisting in the execution of special campaigns.
Scope of work
Coordinate story assets
- Help coordinate story assets, such as illustrations and video, across teams to meet publication schedules for stories (weekly).
- Support daily production workflows across teams and updating the editorial calendar (weekly).
Produce website content
- Create site posts for republished and co-published partnership stories, and coordinate additional platform placements with the audience team (weekly).
- Create site posts for non-story content, like event announcements, job listings and maintain our jobs page and staff page as needed (monthly).
- Update evergreen pages for the fellowships program, politics poll and more (quarterly).
- Update site features with special campaign elements, for example, during membership drives (quarterly).
Communicate with external stakeholders
- Assist with day-to-day communication and coordination with 19th News Network partners, including organizing inbox messages, helping prioritize follow-up items and flagging requests for editorial collaboration.
- Review daily emails from audience members and newsletter subscribers, responding to requests and flagging follow-up items for relevant team members.
Track data
- Track and record republications of 19th content (weekly): Monitor and document all instances where The 19th’s journalism is republished by external outlets. Use AirTable to log each instance with standardized fields such as publication name, story URL, publication date and if the tracking pixel was used.
- Look up and record website and partnerships data from multiple platforms, such as GA4, Parse.ly, Google Search Console and Sprout Social, into one Google Sheet (monthly).
- Help the editorial leadership team draft monthly reports on story readership trends.
Create and maintain documentation
- Support the creation and regular maintenance of standardized templates (e.g., collaborative draft forms, email outreach templates, asset delivery checklists, publication checklists) for use in story publication and partner collaboration processes.
- Set up repeatable workflows for identifying republication using tools like Google Alerts, Muck Rack or similar searches. Refine workflows over time to improve efficiency in the research. Ensure documentation of the tracking system is up to date in Slab for backup and delegation.
- Research and assess potential new members for The 19th News Network (monthly). Conduct independent research on national, regional and local newsrooms that align with The 19th’s equity and mission priorities. Evaluate alignment based on audience, coverage areas, newsroom leadership and past collaborative work. Present findings to the partnerships editor.
Non-essential functions (as capacity permits)
- Contribute to culture-focused staff working groups.
Relevant skills and experience
- Research skills and a facility with using a combination of tools to find articles
- 3+ years of journalism experience
- 3+ years of experience with content analytics, including Google Analytics and Parse.ly
- Thorough communication skills
- Organized and able to multitask on deadline
- Creative problem-solver
- Excellent copywriting skills
- Experience in WordPress or similar content management systems
- Experience in project management systems and software (such as AirTable) is a plus
We know there are great candidates who might not check all these boxes or who possess important skills we haven’t thought of. If that’s you, don’t hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself. We also encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ+ people and people with disabilities.
Benefits
- Sick time accrual (1 hour of sick time for every 26 hours worked)
How to apply
Interested candidates should apply here by 12 p.m. CT on Friday, October 24, 2025. Have questions about this position? Contact us at jobs@19thnews.org. (Note: We are not accepting résumés or applications via email; apply here.)