Full-Time

Forbes seeks an associate editor for platforms and curation

Forbes is seeking an editor to fill a vital role in our newsroom helping to curate, elevate, and spark ideas for our journalism. This role will work closely with the news desk and social media team to identify and promote our best journalism across owned and third-party platforms. The editor will also pay close attention to trends and topics on those platforms to spot opportunities for our reporters to pursue.

The editor will take ownership of homepage curation, push notifications, and daily pitches to platforms including Apple News, Facebook, and Flipboard, crafting engaging headlines, subject lines, emails, and push notifications, and building out content offerings in a strategic way on each platform. They’ll also help deliver on long-term strategic goals on platforms including increasing engagement, loyalty, and pageviews. Along with the senior editor on the news team, the associate editor will develop relationships with platforms and deliver insights back to the news team. The ideal candidate should be a news obsessive with a passion for thinking quickly and creatively to identify and pursue opportunities.

Requirements

● Candidate should have 3-4 years+ experience in a digital newsroom — experience
working on tight deadlines, and working with social media platforms, metrics, and/or
social copy a plus
● Experience writing headlines and the ability to write sharp, succinct copy is a must
● Sharp news judgment and an understanding of what readers want
● Comfort analyzing metrics across multiple platforms and communicating results and
insights back to team members

Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

● Demonstrate experience and interest in curation/distribution — working with various
platforms and products to get our journalism out to the world
● Able to identify and write and edit compelling subject lines, social copy, and emails to
drive strong engagement
● Willing to use data to guide content decisions and methodical in testing ideas in order to
achieve desired results
● Comfortable working in a fast paced and deadline-driven organization
● Highly adaptable and quick to learn processes

The annual base salary range for this role is $70,000 – $80,000

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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