Toronto Star seeks deputy biz editor

The Toronto Star is hiring a Deputy Business Editor to help build on the success of our growing business team.

The Deputy Business Editor will perform and supervise editing, writing, and production duties for the Star’s business, personal finance and housing teams. The successful candidate will be highly collaborative and thrive working with editorial professionals to plan and generate story ideas and projects that are accurate, comprehensive, compelling and relevant. They will combine expertise in journalism with knowledge of business, finance, law and the economy and will be adept at producing content that leads to reader engagement and subscriptions.

The Deputy Business Editor must possess a deep knowledge of the legal and ethical requirements for a news media organization and those specifically described in Toronto Star Policy. They must exhibit a strong leadership orientation and be constantly learning, adapting and providing a teaching/supportive environment to the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the Business Editor to develop and implement editorial strategy
• Assist the Business Editor with leading the business team
• Help to support the business and housing Team Editors
• Help oversee Star journalists, digital producers and freelancers
• Generate story ideas, assign stories, edit stories, and choose visual material
• Generate and curate content for all our platforms
• Work with digital producers and editors inside and outside the newsroom to ensure the smooth production of the content
• Evaluate and edit copy for quality and validity of information; ensure that all Star content under your supervision is accurate; has no legal issues; has no factual, spelling or grammatical errors; meets acceptable writing and journalistic standards; is produced in an engaging manner

• Five or more years of experience editing business, finance, law or economy stories for a major news organization
• Advanced journalism skills with a deep knowledge of business, finance, law and economic theory
• Superb news judgment; story-telling, editing and multimedia skills
• Strong editing and writing skills that lead to a conversational daily product that gives customers the sense of a one-to-one relationship with the Toronto Star
• Understanding of digital publishing best practices
• Knowledge of basic elements of design and presentation
• A proven track record of working collaboratively and innovatively
• Passion, energy and creativity. You are a self-starter and self-motivated with the ability to identify and solve complex problems, quickly and independently
• Leadership skills that can remove obstacles, make decisions and execute
• Excellent communication and people skills, especially working to align functional teams and multiple stakeholders
• Able to simultaneously manage multiple projects and tasks
• Relentlessly high standards; detail-oriented and deadline-driven

Salary: $72,787.84 – $100,872.66

Please submit your application by 5 p.m. on  Feb. 14, 2025.

To apply, go here.