LA Times seeks a deputy business editor

The Los Angeles Times is looking for a deputy editor to help shape its Business coverage. This newsroom leader will work with a team of reporters to tell stories about work and wealth, and how the two intersect.

We are looking for a skilled manager and editor with knowledge of economics and business, macro and micro, large and small; a vision for creative, high-impact coverage on all platforms; and an ability to inspire colleagues to do ambitious, audacious work.

The ideal candidate has the ability to make Business stories appeal not only to traditional readers of business journalism but also beyond. This editor will frame stories around the central questions people are asking, the things they wish they knew or understood or the things they didn’t even realize they were curious about. Audience-informed decision-making is a must, as this editor will need to make tough choices about what stories are worth the time and focus of staff, what can be covered with wire and third-party partners and what we should stop doing.

This editor will work on a range of coverage, but areas of focus might include income equality, the California economy and how technology is transforming the nature of work for both blue-collar and white-collar workers.

Responsibilities:

• Assign and edit the kind of business journalism you would click on and subscribe to; ensure that reporting is fair, accurate, high quality and meets the ethical standards and style of the publication
• Monitor local, national and global business news to ensure The Times is part of, or ahead of, the conversation
• Manage staff, providing continual feedback to employees on their performance, to develop talent and push the department to do better
• Work with Business editing team to set a strategic course for the department that prioritizes digital development, grows audience and digital subscriptions and fulfills current company goals
• Apply creativity to story generation, presentation and medium to reach audiences and grow new ones
• Ensure that the department meets digital and print production deadlines and maintains ideal story flow

Requirements/qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional experience at a digital news publisher
• Experience editing, writing or producing business news
• Experience managing journalists preferred
• Outstanding news judgment, thorough knowledge of digital best practices (including SEO, social platforms, and content sharing), skilled storytelling abilities, and a strong knowledge of journalistic principles and methods
• Expertise at envisioning and editing breaking news, service journalism, features, explanatory journalism, narratives and investigations
• Exceptional verbal and written English skills
• Ability to foster excellent communication inside the team and across the newsroom

The L.A. Times is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes expressions of interest from people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Explore our company history, achievement, values, mission and more on our Careers Site.

This is a management role. The Times staff is currently working remotely, but when we return to the newsroom the position will be based in El Segundo, Calif.

The Company is a mandatory vaccination employer for COVID-19 and its variants. The Company requires that its employees be fully vaccinated as of their start date. If you require a medical or religious accommodation we will engage in the interactive process with you. Proof of vaccination will be required prior to start. If we make you an offer and you are not yet vaccinated, we will accommodate a delay in start date.

Qualified candidates should send a resume, cover letter addressing how you approach business journalism and three pieces you edited with a paragraph explaining how you made each story better to Business and Technology Editor Ben Muessig at the apply link. Please note, the opportunity to attach additional documents appears on the third screen and is labeled “Upload.”

To apply, go here.