Crain’s Detroit seeks an assistant managing editor

Crain’s Detroit Business seeks an experienced journalist to serve as assistant managing editor, leading reporters and working as an integral part of the editing leadership team.

The assistant managing editor will focus on high-quality journalism that resonates with Crain’s audience and understand how to get the best work out of the reporting team. This digital newsroom is audience-focused and innovative, while keeping quality journalism at the center.

We are looking for a confident, hands-on news leader with experience managing a daily news team. This candidate must have excellent news judgment and be comfortable handling breaking news while also knowing how to successfully work with reporters to execute in-depth enterprise stories.

RESPONSIBILITIES

This editor will:

• Lead a team of reporters to successfully pursue, edit and package daily stories and longer-term enterprise that resonate with our audience.
• Work closely with the editing leadership team to ensure the most relevant stories are delivered to our audience.
• Use data to inform decisions to ensure the highest quality journalism is connecting with our current audience as well as prospective subscribers.
• Coach and train reporters in reporting, beat-building and digital best practices.
• Be a team player and problem solver who works well across departments to ensure we are delivering for our audience every day.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Excellent news judgment and demonstrated experience leading creative daily news coverage that builds and serves a loyal, engaged audience.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and edit under deadline pressure.
• Experience as a newsroom manager in hiring, growing and inspiring journalists.
• Demonstrated project management experience.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and act quickly on new digital audience growth opportunities.
• Existing knowledge of metro Detroit, business journalism and the metro Detroit business community are all pluses.
• Solid understanding of content management systems and web-based products and standards.
• Experience building large, loyal audiences through SEO, UX, audience analytics and social media.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, verbal and written, with the ability to effectively collaborate across the organization, including with Crain’s events and audience teams.

This position is exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.

Pay Transparency Disclosure:

The estimated salary range for this position is $70,000 to $93,000.