Reporting directly to the Executive Editor of CNBC Digital, the Managing Editor of CNBC.com will supervise the digital news team — setting daily coverage priorities and planning longer-term enterprise.
This key role is for a leader who inspires excellence and has experience developing content and ideas for online platforms.
Responsibilities
• Supervise team of Reporters, Writers, Editors & Digital journalists who are focused on delivering original and curated multiplatform content
• Serve as a liaison between the digital and TV broadcast teams, harnessing CNBC’s vast news-gathering resources to deliver smart, distinctive journalism with a sense of immediacy
• Support Executive Editor in driving editorial strategy and policy, determining editorial ‘voice’ of content
• Direct daily editorial operations of site
• Allocate resources to achieve strategic and operating goals
• Develop, enhance and maintain relationships with editorial talent
• Build and enhance key internal and external contacts
• Facilitate short and long-term editorial planning with internal and external partners
• Work closely with Ad Sales and Strategic Content team to drive revenue for the site by creating partnership opportunities
Qualifications/Requirements
• Minimum 8 years’ relevant experience in newsgathering/newsroom environment
• Minimum 4 years’ experience supervising editorial teams
• Strong news judgment and a good sense of the trending topics that will resonate with our audience and burnish the CNBC.com brand
• Superior leadership skills with experience leading editorial teams
• Demonstrable expertise in setting vision and strategy and motivating teams to achieve results
• Ability to focus on smallest details of any given news story – reworking copy or writing headlines, but also be able to zoom out to plot broader strategy for the current site and for CNBC.com’s future
• Excellent writing, editing, & organizational abilities
Desired Characteristics
• Experience managing a successful website, ideally in the business news, news or highly affluent environment
• Ability to work in a matrixed structure and work collaboratively with peers and across the organization
• Desire to work in a creative, demanding, competitive environment
• Strong collaboration skills
• Passionate about leading people
To apply, go here.
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