Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram seeks a business editor

The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram – which is now a nonprofit news organization – seeks an outstanding, accomplished journalist to direct our business news team.

Business news at the Press Herald is not earnings statements, B2B stories or features about new companies. Our business desk is a news desk that focuses on accountability reporting, breaking news and narratives. We tell stories from the consumer’s point of view. When we cover utility rates and tax cuts, we write about the impact on people’s electric bills and paychecks.

We are an ambitious news organization with high standards and a talented staff, and we need a superb journalist to help lead our efforts. We aim to do it all – breaking news, compelling narratives, major investigations, data-driven journalism with engaging interactives. For the right candidate, this is a fantastic opportunity. But you must be able to juggle a lot: big enterprise stories, medium-length dailies and quick breaking news. You will oversee major projects and may be called upon occasionally to help produce special news sections.

The business editor supervises four to five reporters and works closely with the other assignment editors, web editors and visuals editors. There is a heavy emphasis on getting breaking news to readers’ mobile devices and laptops as soon as it happens, but we also have a huge appetite for strong, exclusive enterprise journalism. We care deeply about beautiful writing, but our news organization’s defining characteristic is watchdog journalism. The business editor is also involved in our burgeoning events business.

The right candidate for this position possesses all of these qualities: You work with reporters as each story is conceived and throughout its development. You enjoy working collaboratively with your own staff and with other editors. You are as concerned with the depth of big Sunday stories as you are with getting breaking news posted quickly. You see story ideas everywhere. You ask a lot of questions and prosecute stories. You think visually. You see interactive and multimedia potential in every idea. You monitor coverage in other publications. You work with a sense of urgency. You give regular feedback to your staff. You are committed to diversity, inclusion and equity efforts.

If you are the best at what you do and share our passion for ambitious journalism, this is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for. You will be part of Maine’s finest and largest newsgathering operation, and you’ll live in a region with an extraordinarily high quality of life. A minimum of five years of daily news experience is required.

The Portland Press Herald is owned by the National Trust for Local News, a national nonprofit dedicated to conserving, transforming and sustaining local news organizations.

Send your resume and five examples of work you directed to Executive Editor Steve Greenlee at sgreenlee@pressherald.com.

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