Push and email notifications are important tools for connecting readers with the most important Times journalism and breaking news. The Home team is seeking a staff editor or senior staff editor who will focus on messaging.
This editor must be graceful, efficient and collegial under pressure; set wise priorities; and synthesize the direction of multiple supervisors.
Strong writing and editing skills, and knowledge of Times style or the ability to absorb and apply it quickly, are essential.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborating with Home team and masthead editors to set push and email priorities for breaking news and enterprise stories, facilitating decisions about timing and audience segmentation.
- Assertively seeking out and executing notification opportunities, including alerts that incorporate rich text and media elements.
- Writing and editing push notification language that distills a story’s most important and interesting elements into ~140 characters of text.
- Supporting the teams that build our messaging platforms by executing experiments and providing expertise and guidance.
- Developing a mastery of the tools we use to send push notifications and targeted emails, and the analytics we use to assess their impact.
- Occasionally filling in as a homescreen producer.
Basic Qualifications:
- Three or more years of experience as a digital news editor.
- Excellence in news judgment, audience-sensitive framing and writing mechanics.
- External candidates who are finalists for the position will complete a Times editing test and an assessment of digital presentation skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- B.A. or B.S. degree.
This position is represented by the NewsGuild of NY.
The annual base pay salary for this role is between $109,521.19 and $112,000.00.
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