News Content Editor

SmartNews

Operations

Writing

About this role

This role sits in the editorial operations of the SmartNews news app and focuses on delivering important information accurately and quickly. It monitors news, judges urgency and significance, assesses source reliability, and decides how breaking news should be handled.

Daily work includes organizing articles in designated tools, sending push notifications, placing links to related pages, generating and reviewing news-curation pages, proofreading, light writing, checking content quality, and extracting and submitting editorial data. Experience using Slack or similar chat tools and Claude or similar AI tools is required.

Applicants must have editing or reporting experience in a media organization such as a newspaper, broadcaster, news site, or magazine. The posting also requires accurate, fast performance in real-time multitasking, the ability to keep up with changes in the news environment and adapt to specification changes, and smooth communication in Japanese.

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