Editor-in-chief
| Highest | $8,500 / mo · United States |
|---|---|
| Experience | 5+ yrs |
| Degree | Not required |
| First paycheck | 4 years bachelor's + 8-15 years newsroom experience |
Pay in the destination countries
Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.
| Country | Monthly |
|---|---|
| United StatesTOEFL 80–100 · $10–70k | $8,500max |
| Hong KongIELTS 6.0–6.5 · HK–200k | $7,500 |
| SingaporeIELTS 6.5 · SGD 18–35k | $7,500 |
| United KingdomIELTS 6.0–7.0 · £11–38k | $7,500 |
| IrelandIELTS 6.0–6.5 · €10–25k | $6,100 |
| SwitzerlandIELTS 6.5 · CHF 0.9–8k | $5,950 |
What does the day look like?
Your morning starts with pitch meetings and newslist reviews alongside section heads covering politics, business, and culture. Around 35% to 40% of the day is spent on editorial meetings, coverage planning, and publication strategy. Another 30% is dedicated to newsroom management, hiring, editorial budget allocation, audience analytics review, and vetting sensitive investigative pieces with media lawyers for libel risks. Reviewing and editing drafts takes 20% to 25% of your time. Writing major editorials or columns accounts for only 5% to 10%.
Daily work relies on content management systems such as WordPress VIP, Drupal, and Chorus, workflow tools like Slack, Microsoft Teams, Trello, Asana, Monday.com, and Desk-Net, and analytics platforms like Chartbeat, Google Analytics 4, Parse.ly, and CrowdTangle. Print layouts use Adobe InCopy, Adobe InDesign, and QuarkXPress. There is no standard 9-to-5 schedule: breaking news crises, legal retractions, and election cycles demand 24/7 on-call availability, including frequent evening and weekend shifts.
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