Daily News Editor

Job Overview:

• Job Title: Daily News Editor
• Hiring Organization: Reckon ::: Advance Local
• Company Website: https://www.reckon.news/
• Remote Locations: United States
• Job Type: Remote, Full-Time

This is a US remote-based position

In the past few years, younger Americans have brought renewed energy and focus to the reckonings with justice, equity and power.Reckon has been there, covering those movements, issues and perspectives and shining a light on the people in the South and elsewhere.

Now, we’re elevating our work to a national stage, and Reckon is looking for an editor to supervise coverage of our daily news report, finding and assigning stories that are trending across the country so that Reckon is part of those stories for our audiences on a daily basis.

This person should have their pulse on what our audiences care about daily and where they look to find it, cultivating and assigning quick turnaround stories to staffers and across a contributor network. And they should be comfortable with curation, aggregation, trending topics on social media, SEO and programming a daily newsletter with stories that speak to our audiences.

This role is key to developing and growing our brand across the country. With at least one-year management/supervisory experience, this editor should be comfortable with leading a team driving discoverability and readership through its content. This editor’s focus is general assignment within the topics, trends and beats Reckon seeks to develop expertise around.

This editor will be responsible for a building a team of trending reporters (remote-based), as well as full responsibility for a daily newsletter and personally contributing to the regular news report and growing traffic.

Additional Information

Reckon is an award-winning national news organization that covers the people reckoning with America and the issues that inspire them.

We know issues always start with people. That’s why people are at the center of ourstories about climate justice, reproductive health, faith and purity culture, mothers and families, LGBTQ communities, Blackness, racial justice, movements, queer issues and more.

We are committed to telling stories from perspectives from around the nation that are historically ignored or erased by mainstream media outlets.

Find our work on our website, social media and by subscribing to newsletters like Honey and Black Joy. Listen to our award-winning podcasts, including The Reckon Interview and Unjustifiable, or watch our short documentaries, including Mauled and Pulled Over/Pulled Under.

Our journalists and their work have garnered major awards, including multiple Emmys, a national Edward R. Murrow Award and a Pulitzer Prize.

Reckon is owned by Advance, owners of Advance Local and Conde’ Nast; and shareholders in Reddit, Warner Bros. Discovery and Charter Communications.

Advance Local Media is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status or any other category protected under federal, state or local law.

Job Responsibilities:

• Make quick informed judgments on national stories to cover and how to cover them through a Reckon lens
• Understand the urgency and pace of a daily news organization
• Write headlines, social media copy with searching, sharing and trending top of mind.
• Understand the different ways people discover our content and have expertise in SEO, Google trends and more
• Use metrics to inform content decisions and direction
• Ensure stories had the best photos, videos and other elements to provide context to readers.
• Collaborate with other editors and reporters as needed

Employee Benefits:

Advance Local Media offers competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package with affordable options for your healthcare including medical, dental and vision plans, flexible spending accounts, fertility assistance, a substantial 401k plan to help plan for your future, generous paid time off, paid parental and caregiver leave and an employee assistance program to support your work/life balance, optional legal assistance, life insurance options, as well as flexible holidays to honor cultural diversity.

How To Apply:

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