It’s an exciting time to join Marketplace. We are an industry leader in telling meaningful and creative stories on the radio with over to 14 million weekly listeners, and we’re evolving into a multi-media enterprise centered around the ambition of raising the economic intelligence of all Americans.
It’s also a critical time for high-quality, in-depth, enterprise and investigative journalism. The Managing Editor, Features/Enterprise oversees feature-level journalism across radio programs and growing digital platforms. S/he manages the editors and reporters working on longer term reporting projects and special coverage outside of the daily news cycle, ensuring the needs of all news platforms are served.
S/he is responsible for creating, planning, guiding and communicating our enterprise reporting projects and works collaboratively with leadership on all platforms. S/he identifies and works with external editorial partners on signature journalism projects. With strong news judgment, the Managing Editor Features/Enterprise implements an ambitious editorial agenda with an understanding of what makes Marketplace distinctive and how to maintain that distinctive edge in an increasingly competitive environment.
S/he works collaboratively with the Managing Editor Daily (Content/Coverage/News) to ensure longer term projects and resources allocated are synced with daily priorities. S/he manages futures planning, ensuring that Marketplace is prepared for major news events such as elections and other news specials.
Position Responsibility:
- Lead a team of editors and reporters to deliver work that meets the highest journalistic standards in Marketplace’s unique style.
- Work with show producers and editors to meet needs of ambitious in-depth, enterprise level editorial agenda. Surface creative ideas and act as champion for needs of enterprise and investigative work.
- Manage resources and budgets related to long-term projects.
- Manage workflow to reflect editorial priorities.
- Ensure timely delivery of all staff enterprise and feature stories to digital platforms and, working with Marketplace digital leadership, develop, edit and deliver digital-first and digital-only content.
- Manage in-depth journalistic projects involving external editorial partners.
- Hire and lead staff by;
- Creating a culture of constructive performance coaching and regular, on-going feedback.
- Encouraging creativity, invention and productivity.
- Embracing diversity in staff make-up.
- Creating and encouraging individualized development opportunities and plans for staff.
- Work within a team environment, responding to the needs of all Marketplace programs and digital news platforms.
- Read widely and remain well-informed about news, current events, business, economics, history and public policy.
- Communicate Marketplace vision, mission, values, and needs within organization, industry and to outside world.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
- 10+ years of relevant work experience in: editing, broadcast, print or online journalism.
- 5+ years of supervisory/management experience
- Management experience must demonstrate an ability to lead a staff with high standards, demonstrating an ability to teach, and inspire
- Experience working in multi-platform environment producing news content for broadcast and web
- Experience maintaining high journalistic standards under deadline pressure
- Experience with and knowledge of journalism ethics and practices
- Ideally have experience in taking a traditional newsroom and training it to think about how to tell stories on multiple platforms
Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:
- A background in business journalism is not necessary, but a desire to tell business and economic stories in a clear, explanatory and fun style is.
- Forward-thinking, savvy, and be a dynamic leader who loves the thrill of the daily chase.
- Leadership skills, from recruitment to coaching, training and development.
- Strong knowledge of workflows across multiple platforms
- Demonstrated leadership and personnel skills and ability to motivate staff and develop high performing teams.
- Ability to consistently work well with others and to inspire and lead the staff.
- Excellence in leadership with proven ability to develop and maintain a positive, diverse, creative, high performance culture.
- Outstanding strategic thinking and planning, decision-making, and communication abilities.
- Knowledge of and commitment to the mission of public broadcasting, and commitment to the mission of APM.
- Ability to lead and manage change in a fast-moving environment.
- Excellent and persuasive writing ability.
- Ability to manage projects and personnel, to keep projects on target and accomplishing deliverables.
- Budget management abilities.
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