LAist seeks a news editor to oversee our multi-platform, weekend coverage, making us a go-to source of news and information on air and on LAist.com.
Responsibilities:
- You’ll work with our host, reporters and producers to go beyond wire copy and planned events to create lively and useful coverage that also extends into Monday
- Wednesday-Friday will be spent planning and prepping our weekend coverage, as well as assisting on daily edits as needed
- On Saturday and Sunday, you will assign and edit stories for both broadcast and digital distribution
- As weekend editor, you’ll monitor social media for breaking news and have the authority to deploy coverage teams as necessary
- We’re known as leaders in engaged journalism, an approach that prioritizes listening to community members and responding to their questions and concerns
- This extends into our daily reporting, and this editor will be expected to understand and embrace this approach
- Pitch, assign and edit stand-out content for weekend use on both LAist 89.3 and LAist.com
- Respond to breaking news as necessary by reporting, editing and assigning coverage that will appear on air and on LAist.com
- Maintain a daily news calendar and be involved in long-term planning
- Play a key role in keeping the newsroom on track to meet audience growth goals
- Understand and deploy our promise to practice diversity, equity, and inclusion in how we assign, report, edit, produce, and distribute our journalism
- Ensure that all stories comply with SCPR standards and practices, including standards of accuracy, fairness and balance
- Participate in the editorial leadership team, helping plan and execute coverage across desks, develop new approaches for cross-platform reporting
- Provide clear guidance, feedback, and supervision to assigned staff. This includes editorial and performance assessment
- Work with other members of the management team to provide strong, consistent leadership of the department
- Provide clear direction to direct staff through coaching, mentorship, performance meetings and on-going feedback
- Involve senior managers and HR on performance issues as needed
- Foster a creative and productive work environment
- Create development opportunities and individualized development plans for staff and training to enhance skills and foster growth
- Represent the newsroom internally and externally
- Other duties as assigned
- Promotes learning through interactions among people of different backgrounds and many perspectives
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in journalism or related field or equivalent work experience
- Two years editing or equivalent experience, including experience of managing the work of others
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in reporting
- Experience in maintaining high journalistic standards under deadline pressure, including standards of objectivity, balance and fairness
- Some experience providing work direction or supervisory experience
- Experience assigning stories and editing copy
- Experience with digital news production and presentation
- Knowledge of broadcast journalism and public radio, or ability and willingness to learn
- Knowledge of radio, digital, and print style (AP and our internal style guide), or ability and willingness to learn
- Ability to make decisions on deadline, direct coverage, and communicate effectively with colleagues and supervisors
- Ability to effectively execute multiple assignments on deadline
- Leadership and personnel skills and ability to develop high-performing teams
- A strong commitment to principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Ability to consistently work well with others and to inspire and lead the staff
- Strong communication skills and passion for building community relationships via networking both in-person and through social media/online
- Ability to develop complex story ideas that provide analysis and add context
- Ability to use non-traditional approaches, and community engagement tools/methods, crowdsourcing and digital newsgathering techniques, including curation and aggregation
- Commitment to public service journalism
- Required to move about in the community
The salary for this opportunity will be no less than $87,694 annualized and no more than $115,000 annualized
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