Job description
Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) is a subscription-led and digitally-focused media and marketing solutions company committed to empowering communities to thrive. With an unmatched reach at the national and local level, Gannett touches the lives of millions with our Pulitzer Prize-winning content, consumer experiences and benefits, and advertiser products and services.Our current portfolio of media assets includes The USA TODAY NETWORK, which includes USA TODAY, and local media organizations in 43 states in the United States, and Newsquest, a wholly-owned subsidiary operating in the United Kingdom. We also own digital marketing services companies under the brand LocaliQ, which provide a cloud-based platform of products to enable small and medium-sized businesses to accomplish their marketing goals. In addition, our portfolio includes one of the largest media-owned events businesses in the U.S., USA TODAY NETWORK Ventures.
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Service Journalism Editor
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/jsonline.com, part of the USA TODAY NETWORK, is looking for an innovative, high-metabolism editor to lead Milwaukee Connect, a new initiative aimed at growing audience by providing fast-paced, engaging journalism that helps readers navigate their lives, keep on top of local issues and trends, stay safe during public emergencies and connect with the community and world around them.
The right editor is audience-focused, creative and knows how to help a team of reporters react quickly in times of big breaking news and stay focused in slower times on generating high-interest content, answering reader questions, providing need-to-know, service-oriented news on local topics, controversies, events and things to do that make readers eager to return every day.
The editor is a Guild position and will be expected to be a player coach, providing content as well as leading the Connect team. The right candidate must have a deep understanding of what’s important to Milwaukee readers and a proven ability to effectively coach the team through audience-informed analytics on new approaches to coverage and topics.
The editor must feed off collaboration, be an endless source of ideas and recognize good ones when they’re presented, no matter who presents them. The editor will work closely with local newsroom editors, our audience growth and content strategy teams and our national trending team.
What do Connect teams do?
Connect teams take a service journalism, news-you-can-use approach. These teams are intensely connected to community and a key part of reader engagement. The teams publish journalism that helps local newsrooms extend their reach, measured both by in-market readership and subscription growth. This includes key questions local readers are asking on search and creating service-journalism oriented content in companion to local topics in the news.
What’s trending and part of the conversation in the local market to help readers understand the importance/impact locally around national news?
Localizing national trending stories in a service-journalism way with content that relates to the questions readers are asking about breaking news.
Amplify breaking news coverage when local buzz or breaking is lighter. This includes local content relevant to reader curiosity, an engagement series or light accountability work. Replicating network evergreen, seasonal ideas.
The successful candidate must:
- Have a deep understanding of service-oriented journalism and a desire to try new storytelling approaches that help our readers, listeners and viewers connect with our journalism and their communities.
- Possess strong editing, writing and reporting skills, as well as excellent news judgment.
- Display highest journalism standards and ethics.
- Have a commitment to and track record of improving the diversity of your team so that we can better serve our audiences and communities.
- Lead and manage a team of reporters on innovative content and audience strategies based on real-time metrics data and strategic analysis.
- Be a constant generator of story ideas, and help your team produce content early and often during peak audience periods.
- Enjoy collaborating with local newsroom leaders, our audience growth and content strategy teams and our national trending team.
- Have a track record of experimentation that yields measurable impact on audience.
- Bachelor's or master’s degree in communications, journalism, marketing or related field preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- At least 3 years working in a content-related or audience development role in a digitally focused media organization.
- Experience in a leadership and/or management role.
- Must work comfortably in a job that will be fast-paced, data-driven, shaped constantly by feedback and experimentation.
- Exceptional planning and organizational skills.
- Understanding of metrics, social media and SEO strategy.
- Self-motivation and self-direction.
- Strong grasp of journalism skills (reporting and editing) and advanced knowledge of writing, spelling, grammar, AP and local style.
- Innovative, creative thinking that supports the company's goals.
- Command of media law and principles of ethical conduct.
- Devotion to peer-to-peer training, as both a teacher and student.
- Commitment to detail, accuracy and fairness.
- Ability to multi-task and excel under deadline pressure, using time efficiently.
- Skill at collaborating in a cross-functional environment and adapting in a rapidly changing industry.
- Ability to work extended hours, evenings, weekends, and holidays, sometimes unexpectedly when news requires it.
- Employment is contingent on passing a pre-employment, post-offer background check.
1. Your resume – one to two pages.
2. A cover letter that outlines how you would approach the job.
3. Examples of at least 3 significant stories you have edited with a short (1-2 paragraph) narrative about how you helped the writer develop the piece, obstacles encountered during the reporting and writing of the piece, and how you overcame them. In addition, provide at least 3 samples of your own writing.
It is important that these items be assembled into a single document and uploaded in PDF format. Completing these steps will ensure that your application receives the highest consideration.
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Gannett Co., Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a diverse workforce. As such, we will consider all qualified applicants for employment and do not discriminate in connection with employment decisions on the basis of an applicant or employee’s race, color, national origin, ethnicity, ancestry, citizenship status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, marital status, personal appearance (including height and weight), sexual orientation, family responsibilities, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy status (including childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), education, genetic characteristics or information, political affiliation, military or veteran status or other classifications protected by applicable federal, state and local laws in the jurisdictions where Gannett employs employees. In addition, Gannett Co., Inc. will provide applicants who require a reasonable accommodation, as a result of an applicant’s disability or religion, to complete this employment application and/or any other process in connection with an individuals’ application for employment with Gannett Co., Inc. Applicants who require such accommodation should contact Gannett Co., Inc.’s Recruitment Department at Recruit@gannett.com.
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