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American Public Media Group seeks a weekend editor

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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Mariam Ahmed

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