Supervising Editor Weekends, Digital

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.
OVERVIEW

The Supervising Editor for Weekends is a mission-critical role. Joined at the hip with the weekend deputy managing editor, this leader will decide what stories to cover on our digital platforms -- and how. They will direct a team of editors (story and home page) and reporters. They will also oversee social and NPR One staff during those hours.

The role requires impeccable news judgment. It requires someone who can multitask effortlessly, manage efficiently, and nurture and grow their team's career aspirations effectively. It is also expected that the leader will cultivate and support an inclusive and equitable workplace environment.

Content creation: The weekend is a particularly active one for NPR's digital audience. This leader will capitalize on that interest to grow our base and make inroads into communities where we want a bigger presence.

Therefore, this role requires the leader to act in the moment -- whipping up a live blog as needed, pivoting reporters from assigned stories -- all the while keeping an eye on Chartbeat, Twitter, Reddit, CrowdTangle and other signals to ensure we are staying competitive, and covering the right stories in the right way.

Another big part of the role is to possess editorial ingenuity: to find angles (and sources) to tell the stories that can be constructed on the weekends - all the while keeping in mind our North Star of reaching a diverse audience.

Curation: A second critical component of this role is how we present the stories we create: what should we alert, when and where; how can we dream up social native stories. This leader will ensure that our apps are reflecting the latest NPR content of the moment and highlighting the best pieces from our member stations.

Collaboration: This is a senior leadership role, who will consult with other senior leaders to determine -- and deliver -- on our priorities. This leader must be able to model flexible management in sync with leaders of teams overseeing other dayparts -- whether in specific intra-day story editing or longer term decision-making about staffing and schedules. Often, this role might be asked to edit scripts -- and they should be comfortable and versed to do so.

Coaching and management: The supervising editor will be tasked with setting goals (both short and long term) for their team members -- so that the leadership team can work on roadmaps to offer the team growth and career opportunities. This is a prime role for someone who has shown leadership promise to act on that potential, and in the process, cultivate and nurture a cohesive, content and competitive team.

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Develop and execute stories -- both breaking news and quick-turn enterprise -- for all NPR digital platforms, comfortably editing with speed, voice, nuance and curiosity.
• Collaborate regularly with colleagues on broadcast -- newscasts, magazine shows and podcasts -- to make sure our reporting is properly vetted and presented across platforms.
• Field, solicit, edit, organize contributions from others at NPR, including show hosts, correspondents, reporters, producers and editors.
• Work with colleagues across other divisions at NPR from the technologist and designers of Digital Media to the analyst of Audience Insights to the audio storytellers in Programming to provide input on editorial, style, technical and design issues that affect NPR's journalistic integrity and overall digital presentation and productivity.
• Ensure that all materials meet NPR News standards and practices, including standards of accuracy, fairness, honesty and impartiality.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• .Supervise at least 4 direct reports, including preparing their regular performance reviews, and making effective recommendations regarding any hiring, promotion, and discipline for these positions.

QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in journalism

REQUIRED SKILLS
• Three years' experience reporting or editing national or international news writing on deadline.
• Three years' experience reporting and writing with an emphasis on breaking news.
• Ability to handle multiple and complex projects simultaneously under tight deadlines and changing priorities/conditions.
• Proven record of working quickly and efficiently under deadline pressure. Must be able to report breaking stories.
• Consistently work well with others, demonstrating, at all times, respect for diverse constituencies.
• Demonstrated excellence in reporting and writing for the internet.
• Demonstrated news judgment.
• A passion for internet reporting, writing and/or editing.
• Demonstrated ability to work at different levels of a newsroom.
• Demonstrated familiarity with NPR journalism.

PREFERRED SKILLS
• Experience covering a variety of beats
• Broadcast experience

Does this job sound exciting? If so, we want to hear from you -- even if you feel like you don't meet all the requirements. Send us your resume and explain in your cover letter why you'd be perfect for this role.

NPR offers a competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package including health and wellness benefits, retirement, and work/life balance programs, as well as opportunities for career growth and development.

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