MIT Technology Review seeks an ambitious managing editor who can level up our newsroom’s coverage and polish our editorial operations. This is an essential role on a busy team with the opportunity to take ownership of several critical newsroom functions, including our fact checking procedures and copyflow processes. We’re looking for a straight shooter who is purposeful and committed to upholding the highest journalistic standards.
You’ll excel in this role if you relish the chance to manage and orchestrate a variety of editorial schedules and programs. We need a systems and process thinker who is eager to find ways to help the newsroom improve and become a better place to work.
You will oversee digital production and ensure that stories really shine wherever they appear. Each day, you’ll help editors plan ahead and communicate to avoid bottlenecks and ensure that stories and packages run on time. You may occasionally edit a story, but will mainly focus on coordinating fact checks, copy editing, and aspects of digital production for stories edited by others. You may also manage publishing calendars and contribute ideas to annual editorial projects.
We want you to grow here and will make room for you to explore other skills that interest you. If you’d like to be a host at one of our events, try your hand at data analytics, or get involved in our fellowship program for early career journalists, we will carve out those opportunities and help you prioritize them.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions**):
Responsibilities
- Support all aspects of story production
- Scrutinize our copyflow processes and find ways to improve them, with a particular eye toward avoiding copy editing bottlenecks.
- Elevate our storytelling by working closely with the digital visuals editor and product team to upgrade our digital production and ensure consistency.
- Team up with editors and the marketing team to plan special promotions for major stories, spanning earned media outreach or social strategy.
- Oversee print editorial calendars for MIT Technology Review and MIT Alumni News. Set deadlines, check in on story progress, provide frequent status updates to the editorial director, run a weekly planning meeting, anticipate digital art or social needs early in the process. Closely track the budget for each issue.
- Communicate coverage plans and editorial priorities with other teams across the company as needed.
- Oversee editorial standards
- Manage all aspects of fact checking for the newsroom. Hire freelance fact checkers, maintain fact checking guidelines and train new recruits in our processes. Make assignments and ensure they are completed to our standards.
- Work with the copy chief to define house style. Update this guidance on a regular basis and communicate changes to staff.
- Spearhead effort to refresh the newsroom’s editorial guidelines and corrections policy.
- Assist with newsroom operations and special projects
- Run our awards program. Maintain a database of upcoming deadlines and work with editors to determine what to submit. Prepare and submit entries, and oversee an awards budget.
- Develop a system to track the impact of our reporting.
- Lead source and contributor diversity tracking efforts across the newsroom.
- Hire freelance copy editors, proofreaders, fact checkers, and web producers. Manage a budget for these roles.
- Assist with managing the newsroom’s operations budget and freelance contracts.
- Contribute research, ideas, and planning support to major editorial projects.
- Help with recruitment, hiring, and onboarding tasks.
- Other duties as needed or required.
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