Associate Editor

Job Description

Across our organization, we're building a workplace where collaboration is essential, diverse voices are heard, and inclusion is the key to our success.

NPR is seeking a junior-level engagement editor for varied shifts to help our content reach new audiences.

This position is part of a team tasked with understanding, engaging and growing NPR's digital audiences. Core responsibilities include curating the best of NPR's content offerings for promotion NPR's social accounts like Facebook/Twitter as well as sending breaking news alerts. It involves thinking about how to make our content appeal to younger and more diverse audiences using audience-centered framing, strong headlines, visuals and search engine optimization. And then, working to get that content to the right audiences whether they are on social media, third party platforms, our homepage or via push alerts.

This editor will work with journalists across the newsroom and network to determine coverage priorities and story framing, keeping a close eye on opportunities to reach audiences through the two dominant avenues of contemporary audience behavior: search and social. They will improve headlines to make stories more compelling to the audience and ensure that we are being mindful of best SEO publishing practices -- especially in breaking and competitive news situations. This position requires a 40-hour week.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Programs NPR's social media accounts to boost NPR's reach with new audiences.
• Follows trends on social media and search to suggest story ideas with an audience-centered framing, with a particular focus on stories that will engage a younger and more diverse audience.
• Helps shape digital engagement plans for network projects and series.
• Work on deadline and under pressure, to write and edit headlines, teasers and other display copy and visuals for incoming stories.
• Analyzes metrics to understand and better serve the digital audience.
• Writes news alerts for breaking news and feature stories.

EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in journalism, English, or writing-intensive discipline and/or equivalent work experience.

REQUIRED SKILLS
• At least two years of experience in daily journalism (digital or print).
• Ability and willingness to work various shifts including evenings, and potentially weekends, early mornings, and/or holidays.
• Demonstrated strong editorial judgement, news writing, editing, and headline writing.
• Experience with social media channels, including Facebook and Twitter.
• Knowledge of Associated Press style.
• Understanding of journalistic ethics. Experience maintaining high journalistic standards under deadline pressure, including standards of objectivity, balance and fairness.
• Willingness to learn skills necessary to work on digital platforms; ability to adapt to changes in equipment, software and workflow.
• Ability to handle multiple and complex projects simultaneously under stringent time frames and changing priorities/conditions.

PREFERRED SKILLS
• Familiarity with Chartbeat and Google Analytics and other sources of engagement data.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d27366-3-146-221-204-42 in your application.