About the role

  • Manage a team of reporters and editors covering business and media for CNN across multiple platforms. Ensure high-quality and fair reporting aligned with CNN's editorial priorities.

Responsibilities

  • manage day-to-day breaking news across business, markets, tech, media and economy coverage
  • identifies, sets, and oversees editorial priorities with an eye toward CNN’s own reporting process and through monitoring the competitive landscape
  • manage a team of reporters, editors, and video producers including prioritizing assignments, directing reporting targets, identifying gaps and opportunities in coverage and coaching and evaluating the work itself
  • help editors and reporters develop clear beats and coverage priorities
  • ensure that reporting is fair, complete and appropriately aligned across platforms
  • oversee editing of text pieces, ensuring high and consistent quality in the written product
  • work with colleagues across CNN to develop sophisticated video and audio offerings on business topics
  • help develop new digital storytelling formats designed to advance the audience’s understanding of business, finance and the economy
  • play an active role in talent development across the team

Requirements

  • 12+ years of editorial and digital news environment experience
  • experience covering breaking news across business, markets, tech, media and economy coverage
  • 3–5+ years of management experience
  • minimum 10 years editing experience
  • exceptional writing and editing skills
  • experience working in digital video or broadcast television
  • deep familiarity with the competitive coverage landscape
  • exceptional news judgment and an obsession with precision
  • experience guiding teams that have produced exclusive, agenda-setting journalism
  • a track record of contributing to and executing stories across a variety of platforms
  • a strong desire to experiment with storytelling formats and think creatively about how we serve our multiplatform audience

Benefits

  • health insurance coverage
  • an employee wellness program
  • life and disability insurance
  • a retirement savings plan
  • paid holidays and sick time
  • vacation

Job title

Senior Director

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$133,420 - $247,780 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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