Responsible for managing a group of reporters and editors in the assigned news division with a mission to drive them to break the biggest stories on their beats and to uncover and report larger trend pieces, features, and analysis. This individual plays a pivotal role in developing our staff and our news products across all our platforms. Works with a News Director to set strategy for the group to break down complex issues into stories that are both actionable and informative, often on tight deadlines.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Oversees all aspects of the team to produce quality journalism.
- Hires, engages, and retains a high-performing team with a focus on continuous learning and development. Ensures that staff develop and improve writing and editing skills. Takes action and manages individual and team performance.
- Helps the group to develop the muscles needed to deliver real-time news.
- Reviews, evaluates, and edits stories. Coordinates with the central news team to get graphics or videos where appropriate. Selects photos and tags stories as needed.
- Drives employees to try new things and remain open to change as we work to create a new culture across the news department. Serves as an aspirational role model for employees in your group and others.
- Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements:
- Excellent leadership, news judgment, editing, and story-management skills.
- Strong and thoughtful analytical and decision making, and the ability to assess which items need to be handled with urgency and which should be considered further.
- Effective change management skills and ability to help drive the group.
- Demonstrated ability to unpack complicated legal and government actions and help reporters make them interesting.
- Demonstrated ability to develop relationships and influence news reporting and editing.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills, and ability to show those skills on tight deadlines.
- Knowledge of digital news and information publishing operations.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Minimum 7+ years’ journalistic, legal, or business publishing experience, including reporting, writing and substantive copy editing of complex material. Demonstrated record of success in identifying, developing and publishing terrific stories.
- Demonstrated track record of success in management or project management/leadership experience.
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Chris RoushChris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.