About the role
Signalpost Wire is a fictional fast-wire agency. This sample listing illustrates an audience curator role on its social and wire desk: someone who shapes how dispatches appear on partner feeds, checks that what is shared is accurate and keeps an eye on what readers are saying.
The work is fast, detail-oriented and shift-based, and it matters because mistakes spread quickly.
What you will do
- Package dispatches for social and partner feeds with accurate summaries and consistent tags.
- Verify user-generated images and video using agreed checklists before they are shared.
- Monitor feeds for errors, corrections and emerging stories and alert editors.
- Hand over cleanly at the end of each shift with a written summary.
- Contribute to simple measurements of what formats help readers understand the news.
- Follow guidelines on sensitive images and on tone.
What we are looking for
- Experience working on a social, audience or newsroom desk.
- Careful verification skills and caution with unconfirmed claims.
- Strong, concise writing and awareness of different platforms.
- Comfort working a rotating shift pattern.
- Respect for readers and an even temper when feeds get noisy.
How the team works
The desk runs across time zones and uses written handovers to keep continuity. A senior editor is on call during each shift. Training on verification and on newsroom standards is part of onboarding.
This sample listing is hybrid, with shifts split between the office hub and home.
New curators spend their first weeks on a supervised shift pattern, with a mentor reviewing handovers and verification notes. The desk keeps a library of past errors and near-misses, written without blame, that every new colleague reads during onboarding.
Pay and conditions
The illustrative range is $58,000 to $72,000 for a full-time role. It is an invented figure for this launch edition and not real pay data.
A real listing should explain shift allowances, notice periods for rota changes and how rest periods work. Adjustments for health or caring needs are welcome to discuss.