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Consumer Reports seeks senior digital editor

This role is responsible for generating, shepherding, packaging and optimizing content for Consumer Reports’ digital products, focusing on key content impact areas such as Cars, Electronics, Health, Home, and Money.

The Digital Editor will partner with content and product leaders, as well as social media, SEO, business development and other key stakeholders to develop and produce digital content that is user-centric, on brand, current and relevant.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Takes lead role generating and shaping content ideas that work for digital, partnering with CR’s content development teams and at times other platform editors, such as video.
  • Writes and edits stories for Consumer Reports digital properties in collaboration with content development teams.
  • Coordinates with social media team to maximize impact of content.
  • Works with SEO team to ensure content is optimized for search.
  • Uses numbers and trends supplied by the analytics team to plan and program content.
  • Programs Consumer Reports channel pages; pitches stories for homepage.
  • Working with product and user experience group, conceives and executes new forms of digital storytelling including data visualization packages
  • Mines existing Consumer Reports content to produce new digital features.
  • Creates and maintain photo galleries.
  • Helps maintain digital calendar of content.

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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