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The Messenger seeks a corporate news and office culture editor

The Messenger is looking for an experienced editor to build out and run our corporate governance and office culture news team. This team will cover a wide array of issues affecting U.S. corporations that will run across teams, including corporate governance and labor practices, ESG practices, LGBTQ policies, sexual harassment and racial discrimination. It will also oversee coverage of HR issues facing companies and employees.

This team will deal with some of the thorniest issues facing corporate America, including return to work, tricky legal questions surrounding discrimination, the more-than-occasional executive under investigation, as well as lighter fare, like advice for complaining about your boss or what CEOs look for in a good hire. This team will need experienced reporters and editors who can deftly parachute into other people’s beats to help build out the news as it breaks as well as uncover corporate or executive wrongdoing or spotlight excessive and burdensome regulations that impact a wide swath of companies.

The ideal candidate will be able to manage a team that toggles between hard breaking news and softer employee and company questions. They will have a minimum of 10 years of experience in a related field, will be able to spot the latest trends in HR, hiring, firing and executive management. They will have a proven track record of breaking news, working with anonymous sources, writing or editing long-form features and delivering high-quality, high-impact journalism. They will be equally adept at editing breaking news as well as longer enterprise stories with an ability to quickly turn around longer weekend takes or writers of news as it breaks.

Duties include:

  • Assign and edit engaging, accurate, informative, and swiftly delivered business news stories in a sometimes high-volume, fast-paced environment
  • Develop high-impact story ideas and work closely with reporters/writers to execute them across teams
  • Guide the team in spotting trends in corporate behavior, HR policies, legal action against companies and office culture as America returns to work in an uncharted hybrid work model and a cloud of layoffs
  • Work closely with editors across teams and departments to get ahead of the news, creatively expand on existing stories, and maintain a prescient editorial calendar
  • Build a cohesive team that you guide and educate with compassion, fairness, and equality
  • Improve every piece of copy that you touch
  • Collaborate with other departments, such as design and development, to ensure that all content is visually appealing, user-friendly, and optimized for SEO, social media, and different platforms
  • Writing headlines with an eye toward SEO
  • Cutting through the spin in company press releases

Qualifications/Requirements:

  • A minimum of 10 years of experience covering or editing corporate news.
  • Proven track record of breaking news and filing or editing stories in a fast-paced, real-time news environment.
  • Reporting, writing or editing investigative stories and/or long-form features.
  • A collaborative demeanor with experience working and coordinating with multiple teams and across multiple platforms: social media and digital video.
  • The ability to deliver accurate news in a high-volume, deadline-oriented environment.
  • Must be able to work a flexible schedule, including mornings, evenings, and/or weekends as news breaks.
  • Must be highly motivated, extremely organized, detail-oriented, and possess outstanding communication and coordination skills.
  • The job will be based out of New York, NY with a hybrid in-office schedule, and the opportunity to work remote.

Desired Characteristics:

  • BA or college-level equivalent
  • Experience at a major online news site, daily financial publication or a large daily newspaper
  • Passionate about digital storytelling and creating the best reader experience online

**Salary Range: $100K-$200K (contingent upon experience)**

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.

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