Full-Time

Morning Brew seeks an editor for HR Brew

Morning Brew is a media company that covers the business news and narratives shaping our world. The companies, the people, the workplace, the economy — we nerd out on this stuff, and we’re dedicated to helping our audience navigate it all in a way that informs and entertains.
The Morning Brew team is clever, creative, and growing fast. Want in? Read on.
Overview
HR Brew, a publication dedicated to providing HR professionals with information to help them make better decisions, is looking for an editor to lead and shape coverage.
This is both a strategic and hands-on role that will allow you to shape the future of this exciting publication that currently has over 80,000 dedicated subscribers. If you like the challenge of setting editorial strategy and helping reporters execute on stories, well, we’ve got the gig for you.
HR Brew covers all aspects of a human resource professional’s job: from people management to recruiting; corporate compliance to the shifts in the business landscape due to COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and #MeToo.
As part of Morning Brew’s business-to-business (B2B) editorial team, HR Brew sits alongside four other B2B publications: Marketing Brew, Retail Brew, Emerging Tech Brew, and IT Brew.
Here’s what you’ll be working on:
– Manage day-to-day operations of the HR Brew newsletter production process, including assigning/approving stories, editing pieces, and writing headlines.
– Manage, coach, and develop a team of three reporters.
– Generate, develop, and execute ideas for non-newsletter products and other special editorial projects.
– Write stories if and as needed.
– Enforce Morning Brew editorial guidelines, editing content for high-level substance, Brew tone and voice, and standard copy.
– Support optimization of existing content processes and establish new ones where needed.
– Support analysis of audience trends.
What makes you qualified?
– Interest in the human resources industry, and the kinds of stories that speak to the HR professional.
– At least 5 years of newsroom experience.
– Experience managing a team of journalists.
– Ability to write in the Morning Brew style (engaging, informative, clever)
– Flexible worker who is equally motivated by strategic, long-term thinking and hands-on execution.
– Ability to intentionally experiment with, iterate on, and make hard decisions about new product offerings.
– Excellent communication skills with a mindset for collaboration.
– Ability to operate in a high-pressure environment with tight deadlines.
– Understanding of how to leverage multiple platforms (email, social media, etc.) to engage with the target audience.
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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