Streetwise seeks editor of new initiatives

Streetwise is looking for a writing editor who can manage new initiatives in our growing chain of city-focused publications covering the innovation economy.

In 2016 we have writers reporting original stories in four cities. In 2017 we’ll be hiring writers in new cities, working with freelancers to test new coverage areas, expanding our growing network of guest contributors and testing new media for our stories.

We need an associate editor to help get these initiatives up and running. This is an opportunity to make an outsized impact with a small team and grow with an expanding company.

You’ll be successful at this job if you can be…

• Social: You’re attentive to your audience and treat it like a community. You’re always looking for new things to share with it.
• Analytical: You measure the success of your efforts in numbers, as well as anecdotes.
• Organized: We have stories coming in from a diverse array of sources, including freelancers, guest contributors and sister publications. We need an editor who has excellent organizational skills..

• Communicative: You’ll work with the editor in chief to set our best practices and coach writers on executing them.
• Excellent: When people read the stuff you write they seek out your byline, because they want to read more. Writers will want to work with you as an editor, because you improve their articles.
• Curious: Whatever the story, you’re writing about or editing, you’ll ask good questions, look for interesting angles and learn as much as you can.
• Respectful: Of yourself, your readers, your colleagues and your competitors.

We don’t have an experience requirement for this position. We’re looking for someone who can show us ability and a willingness to experiment and learn. This position reports to the editor in chief of Streetwise Media. You can be based in Boston, Washington, Chicago or Austin, Texas.

WHO WE ARE: Streetwise Media was founded by a group of young tech entrepreneurs, frustrated that they weren’t getting any ink from the established tech press. They started BostInno in 2009 in Boston to cover the fast-growing community of young, first-time entrepreneurs coming out of the college scene there. The company opened DC Inno in 2012 and in the same year was acquired by American City Business Journals, a division of Advance Communications that operates business publications in 43 U.S. markets. Since then, we have opened new publications in Chicago (2014) and Austin, Texas (2015).

Humanity faces daunting problems in the coming decades and we at Streetwise believe the innovative and diverse venture economies that we cover contain crucial human ingredients for solving them: entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and college students who are making discoveries and starting companies. We aim to grow into new cities in 2017 and to have strong relationships with those innovators when they start the next big thing.

To realize this vision Streetwise Media must:

• Lead the conversation among innovators in our cities.
• Be daily and essential as a resource to entrepreneurs, investors and employees for news, business intelligence and connections.
• Bring these readers together offline to learn from, inspire and meet each other.
• Provide a meaningful connection into this community for people and companies on the outside, looking in.

We look forward to learning more about how you can contribute to this mission. To apply, please send an application, with resume and clips attached as PDFs, to galen at streetwise-media dot com. Please put “Streetwise associate editor” in the subject line.