News & Copy Editor

Mercor (client confidential) · Remote

Pay
$70–75/hr
Commitment
hourly
Hours / week
~40
Source
mercor
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About this role

**What you’ll do:** review paired AI-generated news/copy writing against the task brief and writing guide; judge for factual accuracy, hedging, and buried leads; select a preferred sample, write a one-line reason, apply tags; clear the calibration gate before live data. **Background:** desk or copy editing experience at a major news organization; comfortable cutting copy to the point on deadline; catches a factual slip or buried lead on the first read. **Schedule:** 5 hours/day, 5 business days for the pilot, ramping into an ongoing month-to-month engagement.

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