NBC News Digital seeks a breaking business news editor

We’re seeking an editor to manage breaking business news coverage at NBC News Digital.

In this newly created role, you’ll work with NBC News Digital’s breaking news team as well as the network’s Business, Tech and Media unit to coordinate coverage of significant business news at it breaks the day’s biggest headlines. You’ll have a focus on what business news means for families, workers and other consumers, assigning stories that range from product recalls to big news about company heads to how companies are handling the pandemic and ongoing social justice movements. You’ll assign and edit stories and also be able to step in and write as necessary.

The right candidate will have experience editing business news for a general news audience at a national digital publication. You must be attuned to what our readers care about. You will manage one full-time reporter to start and report to the lead breaking news editor.

You will make sure that the stories you’re editing and writing have the best photos, videos, social media embeds and other elements to provide context to a reader.

Other Responsibilities

Writing clean, fast and accurate copy, headlines, and photo and video captions
Communicating with a team of other reporters and editors
Planning ahead and pre-writing for announcements, news being released under embargo, etc.
Making full use of the range of NBC News resources, including network newsgathering and multimedia

Qualifications/Requirements

At least five years experience working in a newsroom and editing daily stories, including at least two years writing or editing stories about business

Experience managing a team
Expertise writing headlines
Must have the desire to work in a creative, demanding, competitive environment

Must be a skilled editor with outstanding communication

Skills

Desired Characteristics

Experience writing or editing for a digital-first publication
Experience monitoring social and search trends online
Experience writing or editing consumer-oriented business news

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.