Join Our Transformative Newsroom
The New Humanitarian is an independent, non-profit newsroom that believes in journalism as a force for good. We produce fact-based journalism from the heart of conflicts and disasters to build understanding of how to improve the lives of the millions of people affected by humanitarian crises around the world.
Why join TNH?
Work from Anywhere
Working at TNH means being part of a small, passionate, and truly global team across many time zones and geographies. Work and live wherever you like as long as you have the existing right to work.
Clear Direction
Our strategy and theory of change were created to fulfill our vision of building a progressive, transformative newsroom for our times. They govern everything we do and were created in consultation with our brilliant team.
Generous Annual Leave
Our employees enjoy a minimum of 35 days of paid annual leave entitlement per calendar year, inclusive of all public holidays in their local jurisdiction. After five years of service, that total increases by 5 days.
Staff Retreats
As a remote team, we place a lot of importance on making time for staff connection in our daily work together. But we also know connecting in-person is important too! Each year, we bring the team together physically at a fully paid-for staff retreat. Here, we collaborate, learn, and discuss important topics together.
Paid Leave for Life's Events
We know that life comes with many exciting highs and difficult lows, and we want to support our employees through it all. As well as paid sick leave, we also offer paid carer’s leave, parental and adoption leaves, and compassionate leave.
A Focus on Wellbeing & Innovation
We care deeply about nurturing an organisational culture of excitement, innovation, and well-being so that staff feel valued, proud, and motivated to do their best work. We ensure ample learning and development opportunities for our staff, and center duty of care by supporting the psychological safety and resilience of our team.
Balanced Benefits
Our competitive salaries include a cost of living adjustment to ensure similar purchasing parity across our global team. We contribute to staff pensions and offer a health stipend for staff in locations where national healthcare systems are not easily accessible.
Values Driven
At TNH, we are guided by and committed to organisational values which govern our work and inform our decision-making, ensuring that we stay true to our mission. By upholding our values, we maintain our credibility and integrity. This grounds us as a steadfast newsroom that seeks to drive change in bold and disruptive ways with a sense of calm moral outrage about the state of the world.
Our organisation values
Courage
We are a steadfast newsroom that seeks to drive change in bold and disruptive ways. We challenge dominant narratives and power dynamics with grit and determination.
We believe that courage is the fuel that empowers us to navigate the demanding work we do with unwavering commitment, to take calculated risks, to speak up with candour and share our ideas, and challenge the status quo in pursuit of our mission. We encourage our team members to be bold in their thinking and actions, as this helps us to find innovative solutions to the complex and pressing issues we cover.
We recognise that courage is essential for navigating challenges and setbacks, and we strive to cultivate a culture of resilience. By valuing courage, we inspire one another to step out of our comfort zones.
Accountability
We are an ethical newsroom, and we hold ourselves to the same ethical, financial, and environmental standards we demand from others. We do not abuse our power and strive to minimise any harm caused by our work. We are the first to hold ourselves accountable.
We believe that accountability enables us to be responsible and transparent in our actions and decision-making, and to take ownership of our work and its impact. It helps us to adhere to our commitments and deliver on our promises, and to hold ourselves and others accountable to our shared values and standards.
We know that taking accountability shows others we can be relied upon and empowers us to grow professionally and personally. By valuing accountability, we work to create a culture underpinned by integrity and trust; one where we hold others to account, and we welcome others doing the same to us.
Humility
We are a newsroom driven by our collective ambitions, not our individual egos. We never take our privilege for granted and we find ways to share our power. We are open-hearted and display curiosity. We aren't glory-seekers - we’re happy being in the background as long as we’re having the intended impact. We don’t take ourselves too seriously even if we're doing serious work.
We believe that humility enables us to be open and receptive to new ideas, perspectives, and ways of doing things. It helps us to recognise and value the contributions and expertise of others, to be aware of our limitations, and to work collaboratively as a team.
We know that humility allows us to learn from our mistakes and to admit when we have made them. By valuing humility, we seek to uphold a culture of mutual respect and continuous learning.
Solidarity
We are a newsroom that feels a calm moral outrage about the state of the world. We show a spirit of camaraderie that traverses timezones and international borders, and we show allyship with marginalised groups. We question exploitative norms in the news media industry.
We believe that solidarity enables us to work together towards a common purpose, and to support and stand by one another in the face of challenges and adversity. It helps us to recognise the value of different lived experiences on our team and in the communities we serve, and to strive for diversity, inclusivity, and equity.
Showing solidarity allows us to be empathetic and compassionate, and to put ourselves in the shoes of others. By valuing solidarity, we hope to create a culture based on support, inclusion, and belonging.
Meet our team
The TNH team believes deeply in what we do and works intensely in the face of the urgency of our mission.