Assistant Editor

Date Posted	February 03, 2026
Industry	Newspapers
Specialty	Not Specified
Required Education	Bachelor's Degree
Job Status	Full-time
Salary	$58,000 to $63,000 annually, DOE

Description:

Assistant Editor, Cascadia Daily News 

Cascadia Daily News, an award-winning, locally owned, 4-year-old digital/print news startup in Bellingham, WA, seeks a multi-skilled assistant editor/producer to manage copy flow from a team-oriented newsroom to a daily digital website and weekly print edition. 

The job: The CDN assistant editor works as a desk editor/producer, assisting other editors with story and image editing, formatting and posting content created by a fast-paced team of 15 full- and part-time journalists to CDN’s website and other platforms. 

Position details: Full time, benefits eligible, newsroom-based with some hybrid work allowed. Shifts will include evening and occasional night and weekend work. Requires residence in Whatcom or Skagit County, Washington.  

Reports to: Managing Editor, News 

Pay range: $58,000 to $63,000 annually, DOE 

Key duties: 

• Copy editing news stories for structure, grammar, AP Style and clarity, on deadline. 
• Formatting and posting stories, photos, graphics, video and other material on deadline to the website cascadiadaily.com. 
• Assisting with daily maintenance and curation of CDN website and home page. 
• Monitoring for, and occasionally reporting and writing, breaking news stories from various sources.  
• Coordinating and dispatching reporters and photographers in breaking news situations. 
• Assisting with adapting and planning daily news stories for use in CDN’s weekly print edition and other platforms. 
• Obtaining and publishing non-deadline stories from other news sources and services. 
• Assisting with assembling and scheduling news alerts and roundups via email newsletters and other delivery systems. 
• Monitoring and maintaining newsroom master planning list when stories are scheduled/published. 
• Regularly participating in weekly editor’s meeting, weekly staff meetings and other newsroom planning sessions. 
• Helping to coordinate and oversee fellows and interns. 

Essential skills 

• Keen editing skills with an eye not only for text errors but story gaps/framing issues, missing information. 
• Intimate familiarity with Associated Press Style and in-house style guide exceptions. 
• Strict attention to detail and fact-checking of news copy on tight deadlines in a digital-first newsroom working in a competitive news environment. 
• Solid knack for dynamic headline writing, often multiple versions for same story on different platforms. 
• Strong grounding in media ethics consistent with CDN’s brand and community mission. 
• Ability and confidence to work independently and make news decisions alone or in collaborative fashion with other editors. 

Beneficial skills 

• Basic photo-editing, page-layout experience. 
• Ability to create, refine and publish simple maps and graphics. 
• Familiarity with Slack, WordPress, Beehiiv, MS Office, Google docs and sheets, Outlook, other industry standard digital tools. 
• Experience or familiarity with news issues in the Pacific Northwest region. 

Minimum requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism or related field. 
• Three years’ editing experience, preferably in a professional digital daily journalism environment. 

Job Benefits 

• Company-sponsored health, vision and dental coverage. 
• 21 annual days PTO combining vacation/sick time with additional accrual after three years at the company. 
• Competitive 401(k) program. 
• Office parking space, monthly mobile phone allotment. 
• CDN strives for a healthy work/life balance for all employees. 

How to apply 

Send letter of interest, resume/CV and professional references to editorial@cascadiadaily.com. Finalist candidates should anticipate an editing/style test conducted on a deadline. We are interested in filling this position quickly. Questions or clarity? Contact Executive Editor Ron Judd, ronjudd@cascadiadaily.com; or Managing Editor, News Audra Anderson, audraanderson@cascadiadaily.com.  

About Us 

Cascadia Daily News launched as a startup in January 2022 from a brick-and-mortar office in an historic building in downtown Bellingham, WA. We live and work in a thriving university town of nearly 100,000 located on the Salish Sea, between the San Juan Islands and Mount Baker and North Cascades National Park that (all too often) winds up on Best Places to Live lists. Bellingham is an outdoor recreation and microbrewery focused community in close proximity to Vancouver, British Columbia, Seattle and the scenic Skagit Valley. We cover Whatcom and Skagit counties from the saltwater to the Cascade Mountains.  

Cascadia Daily News is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.