The Seattle Times, a family-owned news organization with 11 Pulitzer Prizes and a growing staff, is looking for two Assistant Managing Editors to join its leadership team. These experienced managers will be part of a seven-person team leading a staff of nearly 170 journalists, working in a collaborative, supportive and inclusive environment. We’re looking for inspiring leaders with impeccable news judgment, exacting standards, a love of coaching and mentoring others, and a longstanding commitment to furthering diversity in coverage and staffing.
Responsibilities:
- Responsibilities Exercise broad leadership as a member of the senior management team of the newsroom
- Participate in management decisions about staffing and personnel, budgeting, coverage and other strategic areas
- Provide day-to-day oversight of newsroom teams as directed, overseeing work published on multiple platforms in print and online
- Share responsibility for leading daily and weekly meetings and brainstorming sessions to inspire, triage and direct coverage
- Use digital analytics to inform coverage decisions rooted in a subscription-based business model and prioritize our continual transformation from a legacy print newspaper company to a digitally minded, audience-focused media organization
- Monitor significant stories in progress and advise editors and reporters on ways to elevate the quality of their work
- Recruit and hire to fill vacancies or expand the staff when the opportunity arises, with a relentless focus on hiring for diversity among the staff
- Oversee the management of employees in all respects including performance evaluations and regular feedback
- Oversee efforts to strengthen retention of existing employees and connect those strategies to a focus on hiring and retaining people of color on the staff
- Work closely with other business teams, including the audience, product and marketing teams, assuring the newsroom is integrated into efforts to build a sustainable business model through subscription-driven strategies
- Represent The Seattle Times and its mission of local, public-service journalism at live events, via media appearances and in written communications with readers
- Qualifications We are committed to diversity and creating an inclusive newsroom and encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply
- News editing and assigning, including daily and long-form journalism
- Directing coverage of breaking news and large, ongoing news events
- Consulting with editors on deep enterprise and complex investigative stories
- Oversight of features, sports, metro, business or digital departments and coverage at a daily news organization
- Work with community-funded journalism initiatives, including communication with nonprofit foundations and other funders
Qualifications:
- At least 7 years of newsroom experience including 5 years supervising others, or equivalent journalism experience that demonstrates the skills needed to help lead a major regional news organization
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required
- Strong leadership and management skills, including the ability to manage people, teams, large projects and continuous institutional change with developed organizational skills
- Demonstrated ability to apply news judgment and make sound ethical decisions under pressure
- Technological proficiency, including experience with content publishing systems for web and print publication
- Ability to adapt swiftly to new technology and innovations and to lead a newsroom in those efforts
- Fluency in photo, graphic and video journalism
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications
For more information click here.
