Bloomberg seeks an audience development editor for markets and breaking news

Bloomberg is looking for a social/audience editor to lead our markets and breaking news coverage on social.

This person will shape markets, economics, and breaking news coverage on Bloomberg’s Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other social platforms. You will work closely with homepage, web, and other audience editors to drive attention to Bloomberg’s reporting as it happens. You will also be responsible for working with our markets team to identify the biggest moves in equities and commodities and post charts showing dramatic climbs and declines throughout the trading day. Essentially, you will keep our audience attuned with what’s driving markets during the day, and why.

The ideal candidate is experienced in news and is obsessed with breaking news, and markets. You’re passionate about what’s happening in the now, from sharing news about the biggest stock moves of the day to breaking stories across all of Bloomberg’s coverage areas. In this role, you will also experiment with tactics to find new ways to tell these stories on Twitter and drive engagement.

WE’LL TRUST YOU TO:

Think creatively about tactics and techniques in order to drive engagement around breaking and markets news on social
Distribute Bloomberg content (video, stories, charts)
Cover breaking news every day during US markets hours
Monitor, analyze and distribute social metrics to wider teams as needed

YOU’LL NEED TO HAVE:

3+ years of experience as an editor or social media editor, preferably in a digital newsroom environment
Experience and an understanding of markets, especially US equities, indices and other economic data
Strong writing skills. This person needs to self edit with little to no backreading
Strong editorial judgment, with an emphasis on turning around multiple breaking news and markets stories
Proficiency in social analytics and publishing tools
An ability to stay calm and act in a fast-paced, breaking news environment
An ability to adapt to changing news habits and audience behavior

WE’D LOVE TO SEE:

A proven track record of driving audience growth and social referral traffic

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.