MarketWatch.com is looking for an editor to join our team as we expand and innovate how we tell stories online.
The ideal candidate understands the latest ways readers are consuming news, as well as the journalistic and technological reasons stories thrive on various platforms. This editor will create engaging and visually rich journalism for distribution channels such as Google Web Stories, Snap and Instagram. Working closely with editorial, design, video, product and audience teams, this editor will produce smart, visually driven content with a goal of growing our readership and influence. The job requires excellent news judgment, as well as experience with images, video and visual storytelling. We’re looking for people with a collaborative and innovative mindset who can thrive in a fast-paced newsroom.
You will:
- Work on a small team, producing and building visual assets that help showcase our journalism for the millions of people who come to us from social channels, with a focus on visual-first platforms like Google Web Stories, Instagram, Snapchat.
- Show sound editorial judgment and a clear understanding of MarketWatch’s publishing standards.
- Attend coverage planning meetings to identify and work with editors and reporters to shape stories with the highest potential to engage audiences on visual-first social platforms. Pitch and develop visual stories.
- Be data-informed in your decision-making to grow our reach on these channels. Work with the audience and platform teams on social strategy and distribution of WSJ content.
You have:
- Sound news, storytelling and design judgment and a clear understanding of MarketWatch’s publishing standards.
- Prior experience working at the intersection of social media and journalism.
- Familiarity with social-media publishing and analytics tools, including SocialFlow, Adobe Analytics, CrowdTangle and other relevant software or platforms.
- Ability to work quickly and efficiently under tight deadlines.
- The initiative to take on and learn new tasks.
- Strong organizational, communication, leadership and collaborative abilities.
To apply, go here.
Chris RoushChris 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.