Consumer Reports seeks articles editor

As the Articles Editor, Consumer Policy and Mobilization, you’ll be part of a team working to inform, educate, and engage our readers to drive marketplace impact regarding complex topics.  Working within our content team, you’ll serve as the editor of Consumer Reports Magazine and Consumer Reports Online policy and mobilization content sections.

You’ll help shape and direct how we present, discuss, and campaign on consumer issues across health, food, money, home, cars, and tech. You’ll work with our VP, Consumer Policy & Action and policy directors to draft and publish advocacy content, our campaign directors and digital staff to hone campaign language and position calls to action, and CR’s journalists to strategically integrate our impact work into editorial content.

You’ll move from project to project, using your strategic vision, diplomacy, and deep managerial competence to help bring clarity, cohesion, and engagement to our work.

You are an enterprising editor with a proven record of managing, shaping and line-editing high impact content across a wide range of subjects within print and digital platforms. You are an activist and advocate who believes consumer power can drive change and shape the marketplace. But most importantly, you’re looking for an opportunity to use your skills to improve the health, safety, and well-being of consumers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serves as the top editor of consumer policy and mobilization content in Consumer Reports Magazine and Consumer Reports Online, working closely with those platform’s executive editors.
• Develops, recommends, and executes strategy for key policy features online and in print; will edit those sections and may write items as needed.
• Partners with journalists across our content areas, as appropriate, to help strategically integrate policy and mobilization issues into our broader reporting.
• Collaborates with our VP, Consumer Policy & Mobilization and each of our policy directors to shape white papers, editorials, and blog posts that inform, educate, and advocate on our consumer impact areas.
• Works with our Campaign Managers to create, test, and hone campaign language and calls to action.
• Translates technical information into consumer-friendly language for a sophisticated readership while preserving utter integrity of the meaning.
• Partners with our digital team and data analysts to design new features, run tests, and implement data-driven decision-making around our campaign language, page design, and engagement funnels.
• Coordinates with content leaders across platforms to shape stories that are likely to create high impact in the marketplace and have a clear policy or mobilization tie.
• Edits and re-shapes high-impact consumer policy and mobilization work.
• Helps to ensure our policy and mobilization content supports Consumer Reports’ mission of advancing consumer fairness and safety in the marketplace.
• Ensures integrity, consistency and accuracy of all work edited.

Qualifications Include:

Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of seven years of experience producing and shaping top level editorial work, including narrative, investigative and explanatory story telling.  Attention to detail, sourcing quality and accuracy is a must for this role. Comfort with polling and data-driven work is also a plus. Must be highly attuned to the needs and concerns of consumers, and passionate about the ability of journalism to change the marketplace. Strong top editing skills and mastery with compelling display copy; familiarity with K4.  Is comfortable working in a matrixed environment where influencing skills are required.

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