Work at Reason.com: We're Hiring a News Editor for the Planet's Largest Libertarian Journalism Site!

Want to work at Reason.com, the planet's biggest source of libertarian news, analysis, and commentary?

Apply to be Reason.com's News Editor:

Reason.com, the largest website devoted to covering politics, culture, and ideas from a libertarian perspective, is searching for a news editor.

The editor will be responsible for commissioning freelance articles, assigning staff-written pieces, overseeing the publication of syndicated columns, coordinating efforts with Reason magazine and Reason TV, and helping to chart the direction, tone, and growth of the site.

The ideal candidate will share Reason's "Free Minds and Free Markets" perspective, have a strong affinity with our highly engaged reader community, and possess a track record of building online presence and impact. He or she will be a news junkie with wide-ranging interests and a voracious appetite for all sorts of new and old media.

Strong preference for Washington, D.C. Competitive salary and benefits.

Please send cover letter and resume to Jordan King at [e-mail].

Comments

[mojoe]

Must be willing to shill for Hillary Clinton, even as you claim to be Libertarian, and nominally support Gary Johnson.

Also for extra credit, please list three (3) ORIGINAL insulting names for either Trump or Trump supporters.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Does somebody's poopy hole hurt?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Do I have to pull out the "Who Reason Is Supporting in the 2008 Presidential Election" link for you, where the contributors who were voting all voted, to a man, for junior Illinois Senator Barack Obama? Because, I'll do it.

[Mongo]

Does that mean I made things right again by not voting for Obummer in 2012 after I voted for him in 2008?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Delete your voter registration card.

[Domestic Dissident]

To be fair about it, the fakers don't worship Hildog anywhere near as much as they worship Block Yomomma.

They will actually criticized Hildog once in a while, but Mofo is basically untouchable.

[commodious, blithering idjit]

He or she will a news junkie with wide-ranging interests and a voracious appetite for all sorts of new and old media.

You people should hire some sort of editor.

[Clich? Bandit]

out-fucking-standing.

I nominate Lucy.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Obligatory...

DTAL!

[WTF]

See, this is why they need an editor.

[SusanM]

The ideal candidate will share Reason's "Free Minds and Free Markets" perspective (must be willing to work cheap)

have a strong affinity with our highly engaged reader community, (must be willing to have balls busted regularly)

and a track record of building online presence and impact. (spam king)

[Clich? Bandit]

What about a book...and paeans to Lou Reed?

[SusanM]

Paeans to Lou Reed? Come on, it's not like he's dead or something.

[Eman]

Still worth paening about

[LynchPin1477]

have a strong affinity with our highly engaged reader community

The offer letter should end with Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate

[Fist of Etiquette]

Must be willing to create and maintain a 24/7 news feed in the second most tedious and unwieldy design possible and then gradually stop the feeds until it dies a slow and ignominious death, at which point you will be moved to doing morning links-slash-open thread content while secretly updating your resume.

[Clich? Bandit]

Editor:
You keepa using dat word. I donna think it means whatta you think it means.

Inconcievable!

[WTF]

Inconcievable!

Someone could have used an editor.

[Idle Hands]

"I" before "E" except after "C".

[commodious, blithering idjit]

Or whenever else that's inapplicable.

[commodious, blithering idjit]

He keeps using that word... I don't think it's spelled the way he thinks it's spelled.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

"I" before "E" except after "C" or when sounded like "A" as in "neighbor" and "weigh."

[Francisco d'Anconia]

I NEVER RELOAD!

[Ted S.]

The good people of Muncie, IN drinking beer out of their steins beg to differ with you.

[Idle Hands]

My teachers were always in to shortcuts.

[jack sprat]

Or if it is weird.

[Clich? Bandit]

I swear I typed it correctly. But I am going to blame squirrels.

[$park? is totally a Swifty]

Alright, I'll do it. But it's gonna cost you.

[commodious, blithering idjit]

You get anal? That's right, no matter how many revisions it takes, they'll have to spellcheck every word.

[Ted S.]

I think he prefers oral.

[Eric]

"Also for extra credit, please list three (3) ORIGINAL insulting names for either Trump or Trump supporters"

1. "Trump Supporters - The Bottom of EVERY Bell Curve"
2. "Amway's Target Audience"
3. "Insecure proto-hominids with daddy issues"

[mojoe]

When can you start?

[Free Society]

Have they filled the job of Robby's Shampoo Boy?

[thrakkorzog]

Me speak English good, so me send in me Curriculm Vitae. Even if me me don't get job in editorial position, me hope that new editor cracks down on using the word 'literally' when author means 'figuratively'. We already lost irony, let us try to keep at least one word meaning.

[commodious, blithering idjit]

Here's some news editing, free of charge. Think it couldn't get any worse? Think again: malaria resurgent in Bolivarian Venezuela.

The country's economic turmoil has brought malaria back, sweeping the disease out of the remote jungle areas where it quietly persisted and spreading it around the nation at levels not seen in Venezuela for 75 years, medical experts say.

It all starts with the mines. With the economy in tatters, at least 70,000 people from all walks of life have been streaming into this mining region over the past year, said Jorge Moreno, a leading mosquito expert in Venezuela. As they hunt for gold in watery pits, the perfect breeding ground for the mosquitoes that spread the disease, they are catching malaria by the tens of thousands.

Then, with the disease in their blood, they return home to Venezuela's cities. But because of the economic collapse, there is often no medicine and little fumigation to prevent mosquitoes there from biting them and passing malaria to others, sickening tens of thousands more people and leaving entire towns desperate for help.

[SusanM]

Before anyone says anything, DDT is still made and used.

http://tinyurl.com/ja8ajtc

Today, about 3,000 to 4,000 tons of DDT are produced each year for disease vector control.[23] DDT is applied to the inside walls of homes to kill or repel mosquitoes.

[Brett L]

NOT ENOUGH!! Also, who is buying DDT when they can't afford food?

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

The Commentariat should send its best forward; like Hector of old to die on the front line of Liberty's battlefield.

[bacon-magic]

The ideal candidate will share Reason's "Free Minds and Free Markets" perspective, have a strong affinity with our highlyhigh, engaged enraged reader community, and possess a track record of building online presence and impact.

ftfy