Hearst Connecticut seeks business and features editor

Hearst Connecticut Media Group’s journalists cover communities in Fairfield and New Haven Counties and beyond, serving readers across platforms, including our sites, app, newsletters, social media accounts and more for eight daily and 14 weekly newspapers.

We’re looking for an enterprising, audience-focused and collaborative Business and Features Editor at a time when we’re growing digital subscriptions.

This editor would oversee in-depth and news-you-can-use coverage across key topics like cost of living and real estate; restaurant and retail trends from a consumer-friendly lens, things to do in Connecticut, local entertainment and more. The leader for this position should be adept at helping produce high-impact enterprise while also managing a daily flow of stories to inform and engage a large swath of local readers.

Duties and responsibilities:

Works collaboratively with editors, other reporters, photographers and audience team members to tell impactful stories across platforms that engage and retain local subscribers and other readers

Conceptualizes and assigns stories aimed at growing digital subscriptions by identifying trending or important stories through social media, analytics or otherwise

Guides staffers through the reporting process and edits their work with excellent command of grammar, usage and AP style

Elevates reporters’ stories by seizing opportunities for in-depth enterprise and investigative angles including those with statewide reach

Communicates quickly and effectively with reporters to break news online and follows up when appropriate with more in-depth enterprise pieces

Demonstrates a high comfort level with analyzing and interpreting metrics and uses them to inform coverage decisions in real-time and the long-term

Develops the talents of staffers, offering constructive criticism of their work. Coordinates with managers in other newsrooms and non-editorial departments on projects

Qualifications: 

Demonstrated experience managing newsroom personnel and producing high-quality features news and enterprise journalism across digital and print platforms

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in journalism, English, communications or related field preferred

Demonstrated success working in a deadline-driven environment

Highly organized and detail-oriented with a proven ability to effectively juggle multiple tasks

Ability to speak a second language like Spanish a plus

To apply: 

Send a cover letter and resume for review.

To apply, go here.