Senior News Editor

Job Description

The Role:
The Senior News Editor frontline manages the news desk during their shift – including story, asset and resource management. S/he ensures the quality, speed and accuracy of our storytelling and that the network goals and planning around a story is reflected in treatment of the story. Serving as editorial gatekeeper for the network, the Senior News Editor ensures integrity by giving attention to all elements of a story, words, information, facts and data for all platforms, including Digital and Social execution.

The Senior News Editor should be capable of acting up to Director of Coverage level as required.

The Daily:
Assignments: Assigns resources to stories and ensures clear assignment communication to the field. This includes intelligently and responsively assigning Newsdesk Producers and Researchers to the appropriate teams in the field. They make a determination based on region, skill, story priority and staffing levels.
Ensures appropriate staffing levels for their shift or in the face of breaking news. Responsible for assessing and managing hours worked in the field by teams and supporting as appropriate, working globally with their Senior News Editor colleagues to ensure all assignments are covered. Responsible for delivering multi-platform coverage and working with field and desk teams to do so.

Performance Management: Gives regular feedback to Newsdesk Producers, Researchers and Field Producers they work with. Mentors desk employees formally and informally.
Onboards, trains and manages temporary employees and new staff they are responsible for.
Client communication: Senior News Editors are responsible for communicating out urgents and alerts to all platforms, liaising with the control rooms and Digital supervisors on matters of importance and breaking news. They are responsible for bringing security, legal, S+P and editorial issues to the attention of the DOC.

Financial Responsibility: Responsible for ensuring the Desk is fiscally responsible. Manages spending by making decisions about story assignments and resources based on the budget allocated. Makes recommendations on spending and alerts senior managers on issues related to spending.

The Essentials:
• Strong background in television or digital journalism
• Proven experience directing or managing others – strong leadership skills
• Digital and Social proficiency
• Skilled editor – linear and digital
• Possess demonstrable understanding of international media law
• Strong technical and logistics skills relative to both TV and Digital
• Excellent understanding of international affairs
• Fast, succinct and accurate communication skills (written)
• Excellent communication and people skills (verbal)
• Collaborative
• Innovative and creative
• Flexible and able to operate in a fast-changing environment
• Sound judgement

The Nice to Haves
• Work experience abroad in international journalism
• Fluent in a second language
• Professional journalism training preferred or may be substituted with work experience in the industry of some years.
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