News & Copy Editor
Quick facts
- Pay
- $70–75 / hour
- Type
- Contract
- Location
- Remote
- Platform
- Mercor — 323 open jobs
- Typical pay at Mercor
- $45–150/hour · median $85 (170 jobs on our site)
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay to get AI training work
Pay: $70 – $75/hour
Commitment: Hourly, ~40 h/week
Field: Arts & Design
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.
About Mercor
Mercor is an AI-driven hiring marketplace that places professionals on contracts with leading AI labs. You apply once, complete a short AI interview, and are then matched to open projects.