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CNN Business seeks a senior editor for breaking news

The Senior Breaking News Editor is a best-in-class team leader, setting CNN’s editorial agenda for breaking business news coverage, overseeing a team of writers and editors. This is a role for a seasoned editor who has a nose for breaking news and a knack for coordinating coverage across a broad network. The ideal candidate thrives on the breakneck pace of deadline journalism, has top-notch news judgment and must love business news — with a particular enthusiasm for contextualizing complex financial news topics for a broad consumer audience. This person is a strong collaborator who can help shape CNN Digital’s business reporting and work across teams to oversee breaking news coverage.

Your Role Accountabilities…

  • Assign breaking news stories and oversee a team of writers who operate in the early morning, late evening and weekends, helping CNN Business maintain a 24/7 news operation.
  • Manage a team of editors and writers responsible for CNN’s breaking business coverage throughout the day.
  • Edit breaking news and features from writers on the Business team as well as other writers, producers, reporters and correspondents across CNN.
  • Edit work that is published and shared across CNN’s mobile and desktop sites, apps, social accounts and other platforms.
  • Shape story ideas and angles around complex topics and frame stories that explain complicated financial information for a general news audience.
  • Serve as a second set of eyes on alerts or on key pieces that need a good comb-through and/or creative punch.
  • Serve as a partner to writers and editors in identifying distinctive angles on top stories, and in helping to make good stories great.
  • CNN editors must be excellent communicators and diplomats. They are excellent providers of feedback who help elevate CNN’s storytelling across a wide range of digital platforms.
  • A critical component of the job will be assisting with the live stories that are an essential part of our breaking news coverage.
  • Be skeptical, but not cynical – be genuinely excited by the changes and disruptions to the US economy and beyond, but also ready to take a critical look at why those changes are taking place.
  • And last but never least: Editors are often the final step before a story goes to CNN’s programming team to get distributed to millions of people worldwide; all editors work intently to make sure our stories are accurate and fair so that we continue to grow the trust between CNN and our audiences.

Qualifications

•The ideal candidate thrives on the breakneck pace of deadline journalism, has top-notch news judgment and must love business news — with a particular enthusiasm for contextualizing complex financial news topics for a broad consumer audience
•5+ years of digital experience
•College degree or equivalent industry experience
•Strong knowledge of or passion for business and financial news
•Excellent people management skills
•Demonstrates exceptional leadership qualities

Responsibilities

•The Senior Breaking News Editor is a best-in-class team leader, setting CNN’s editorial agenda for breaking business news coverage, overseeing a team of writers and editors
•This is a role for a seasoned editor who has a nose for breaking news and a knack for coordinating coverage across a broad network

Benefits
•$113,890.00 – $211,510.00 salary per year
•Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris 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.

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