Digital First Media seeks biz editor

Digital First Media, the New York-based company that manages the MediaNews Group and Journal Register Co., is seeking a business editor.

Its ad for the position states:

Digital First Media is perhaps the country’s boldest leader in exploring the future success of journalism by practicing it today. We have assembled an impressive team in our New York newsroom widely known as Thunderdome, and we are looking for a sharp, well-rounded and experienced business editor to become our business channel manager as we launch the channel online across our DFM network, which includes more than 70 daily newspaper sites and more than 800 multi-platform products reaching more than 61 million Americans.

Among those in our newspaper family are The Denver Post, The Detroit News, The San Jose Mercury News, The El Paso Times, The Salt Lake Tribune, The New Haven Register, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Oakland Tribune, Los Angeles Daily News and many more.

The business channel manager will be responsible for the business vertical with duties including keeping the channel fresh 24/7 with the best, latest and most complete content available using shared content from our sites, partner content from the several news organizations we use, and produced content that you will help report and produce yourself.

You’ll be expected to produce business/consumer/finance pieces, or supervise production, using tools such as Spundge, ScribbleLive, Storify, social media and/or whatever new effective tool comes out today. We jump on new ways to tell a story in a digital format; a traditional print format; and by good, ole fashioned, hard-nosed reporting. We’re also looking for someone who has strong and proven editing skills.

Digital First says it is close to launching its business news channel. If interested, email your cover letter, resume, references, etc., with BUSINESS CHANNEL MANAGER in the subject line, to Troy Turner, news channels editor, tturner@digitalfirstmedia.com.