Copy Editor Jobs in Augusta, GA (NOW HIRING)

We're launching Capital B Augusta, our next local newsroom, and we're looking for an entrepreneurial editor to help build it from the ground up.
As Founding Editor, you'll shape our editorial strategy, establish our presence in the community, launch our newsletter, report and write it and help define how Capital B serves Augusta for years to come. Working alongside Capital B's broader editorial and audience teams, you'll help create a model for community-centered local journalism that can be replicated in cities across the country.
This position reports to Capital B's Executive Editor.
Salary: $90,000-$110,000
Location: Augusta, Georgia
Applicants must currently live in the Augusta area or have demonstrated ties to the community. Building trust requires being deeply connected to the community we serve.
Why Augusta
Augusta deserves local journalism that helps people navigate their daily lives.
We're launching Capital B Augusta to build a trusted civic resource for Black residents: one that helps people understand what's changing, what matters, and what to do next. Through our newsletter, we'll deliver accountability reporting, service journalism and practical information that helps residents better understand and shape their community.
We'll also provide an antidote to sensationalistic, fear-driven coverage of crime by delivering reporting that adds context, accountability and practical information instead of simply amplifying fear.
We'll combine community listening, rigorous reporting and thoughtful experimentation with AI to build a news product that's useful, trustworthy and responsive to the people it serves.
What you'll do

• Build Capital B Augusta's editorial operation from the ground up.
• Launch and lead our newsletter.
• Report, assign and edit journalism that helps residents navigate civic life.
• Establish editorial workflows, coverage priorities and newsroom routines.
• Develop recurring newsletter features readers come to rely on.
• Create short-form video that explains local news, showcases reporting and helps grow Capital B Augusta's audience across social platforms.
• Build trusted relationships across Black Augusta.
• Lead a team of part-time community ambassadors to ensure community questions shape coverage.
• Partner with Capital B's audience, product and design teams to grow the newsletter.
• Use audience data, experimentation and community feedback to improve our journalism and increase engagement.
• Help develop responsible AI workflows that make local journalism more useful, accessible and transparent.
• Build editorial systems that can grow as the newsroom expands.

What you'll bring
We're looking for someone who is equal parts editor, reporter, writer, builder and product thinker.
You should have:

• A deep understanding of Augusta and the issues affecting Black communities there.
• At least five years of reporting and editing experience.
• Strong news judgment and excellent editing skills.
• Experience with newsletters or audience-focused journalism.
• Experience creating compelling social video or a willingness and enthusiasm to become comfortable on camera.
• An entrepreneurial mindset and excitement about building something new.
• Comfort making thoughtful decisions when there isn't already a playbook.
• A commitment to community-informed journalism.
• A habit of using audience data, experimentation and community feedback to make editorial decisions. You enjoy testing ideas, learning from results and continually improving your work.
• Curiosity about using AI responsibly to strengthen journalism.
• The ability to collaborate across editorial, audience and business teams.

We're looking for someone who believes local journalism should be measured not just by the stories it publishes, but by whether it helps people make better decisions about their lives and communities.
You don't believe great journalism is finished when it's published. You're interested in understanding whether it reached the right people, answered the right questions, and changed how someone understands or navigates their community.
What success looks like
In your first year, you'll launch a newsletter that becomes an indispensable part of how Black Augustans understand what's happening in their city and what to do next. You'll build trust throughout the community, grow a loyal audience, establish systems that can scale, and help demonstrate a new model for sustainable, community-centered local journalism.
What we'll bring

• Four weeks of paid time off plus company holidays
• 20 weeks of parental leave
• 12 weeks of caregiver leave
• 401(k)
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Health and dependent care flexible spending plans
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Professional development fund
• Monthly phone and internet stipend
• Home office setup stipend

About Capital B News, Inc.
Capital B is a first-of-its-kind local and national nonprofit news organization reporting for Black communities across the country. We have local newsrooms in Atlanta and Gary, Ind. as well as a national newsroom. Cofounded by CEO Lauren Williams (former senior vice president and editor-in-chief of Vox) and Chief Audience Officer Akoto Ofori-Atta (former managing editor of The Trace), Capital B is looking for a skilled, highly motivated, scrappy sales professional to help us grow our earned revenue operation
Capital B is committed to serving Black communities essential local reporting and in-depth national coverage from a fresh perspective. By filling the gaps left by mainstream news, we're empowering our audience with civic journalism and authentic storytelling that centers Black voices and experiences.