We seek an innovative leader who can guide local business, work, and money coverage in one of America’s most exciting and diverse metropolitan areas.
The Business Editor would guide the day-to-day coverage of a small team and plan and coordinate coverage across our digital, print, and wire editions.
The ideal candidate will take a creative, experimental approach to the beat and be excited to help develop reporters across the newsroom to think about and follow the money. You should have excellent news judgment and storytelling chops, the ability to focus staff on the most distinctive and impactful stories about business and money in the Chicago area, and a passion for serving our audience and community. You should have a deep understanding of pocketbook issues, a desire to hold public organizations accountable, and high awareness of racial and socioeconomic equity issues. Experience working cross-functionally in a newsroom, managing and developing reporters, and serving diverse – and historically underserved – communities is a plus.
Core Duties:
- Lead business reporters to produce a daily news report that serves our diverse community and stands out from the competition.
- Provide coverage of the city’s Fortune 500 businesses, small businesses, startups, government agencies, and pocketbook issues tailored to a low-income and middle-class audience.
- Oversee business coverage to ensure a wide variety of exciting news and features daily and weekly.
- Work with the Executive Editor, Managing Editor, Senior Director of Audience, and other leaders to develop a business coverage strategy that serves the Chicago area, growing audience engagement and membership.
- Manage a team of reporters, developing and inspiring journalists at all levels of the newsroom while creating a collaborative, supportive work environment to help a diverse range of employees succeed.
- Work with print and digital journalists and collaborate with our partners at WBEZ.
- Work closely with audience and visual teams.
- Guide original, impactful projects and enterprise investigations.
- Promote diversity, inclusion, and equity.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a union environment.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, or related training.
- At least three years of editing experience.
- Knowledge of grammar and AP style.
- Strong communication skills.
- Strong people-management skills.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Ability to react quickly in a deadline-driven environment.
- Some knowledge of Chicago and the Midwest.
- Ability to balance a mix of short-term and long-term projects.
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