Editor

Are you passionate about global storytelling and bringing diverse perspectives to an English-speaking audience?

Join Translator, a new magazine of translated journalism and reportage from around the world, for the open minded and the language curious. We’re hiring an editor 2-3 days a week as a member of our editorial team to help us ensure that we source and translate articles from all parts of the globe.

What you’ll be doing

Day-to-day, you will:

• Help curate possible articles to translate into English from our sources, or summarise
• Explore the landscape of non-fiction writing in languages other than English to find articles and book chapters suitable for our translation and liaise with publications as necessary
• Help constantly update our records of suitable non English language publications and translators
• Help with summarisations of articles from languages other than English including verification, fact-checking and translation-checking
• Liaise with translators and other editors, both internally and externally, as necessary
• Contribute to enhancing the linguistic reach of Translator

About you…

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Excited about journalism and writing in languages other than English. You’re a keen reader of political, social and cultural writing in languages other than English. You have a research/editorial background and regularly reads, or is able to read, in languages other than English, and preferably languages spoken predominantly outside Europe.

• Passionate about amplifying voices from outside the Anglosphere. A believer that we can better understand the world and our place in it if we’re able to read what is being written in languages other than our own. An awareness of the publishing landscape outside the Anglosphere would be an advantage.

• Experienced in editing and/or translating in an international context. You get the value of sensitive editing and translation to make another person’s writing a pleasure to read in English, and understand the role of editorial judgement to give the reader confidence in what they are reading. You have a minimum 2-3 years’ editorial/translating experience, ideally working with a publication (magazine, book publishing, newspaper). But if you have more, or much more, experience, we’d be delighted to talk.

• Happy to work in a dynamic start-up environment. Everyone’s contribution matters. You have a can-do attitude to getting stuff done, able to engage with potential external partners (publications, translators), and excited to both share your ideas and learn from others, openly and respectfully.

About Translator

Translator is a start-up magazine that wants to help change the way we read the world by making the best non-English language reportage writing available to an English language audience.

We’re starting with a weekly email newsletter of summaries of the best reportage writing from around the world in early 2025. The paper magazine, translating full articles into English, with a range of other content including reviews, photography and some commissioned pieces will start later in the year.

At a minimum, fifty per cent of any surplus we make will be given to charities that support translation and translators or writing and writers in languages other than English.

What we can offer you

• Creative input in a start-up publication
• Opportunity to explore media landscapes outside of the Anglosphere, and gain a deeper understanding of the world around you
• Work with interesting partners and translators
• A meaningful job in a meaningful publication