The Oaklandside seeks a managing editor

What you’ll do: Own our daily story budget, monitoring for accuracy, timeliness, and balance and proactively solving problems Evaluate and iteratively improve our existing publishing workflows Assign and edit stories in coordination with reporters and editors Lead on developing and tracking performance objectives for the Oaklandside editorial team Drive special coverage and longer term projects […]

Cityside launches The Oaklandside, sister site to Berkeleyside

The Oaklandside, which was funded with $1.56 million from Google News Initiative, officially launched in Oakland on June 16, reports Poynter. The unique thing about the newly launched non-profit, online newsroom is that it began operations before its official launch as the pandemic stopped everything else. “We’re journalists,” said Tasneem Raja, editor-in-chief. “We need to […]