Summary:

A progressive-leaning Digital Media website focused on the Political realm is seeking an experienced and dynamic Editor In Chief to lead its expansion. The successful candidate will have at least ten years’ experience as a Political reporter and/or Political news editor, and experience leading teams of ten or more. The Editor in Chief will partner with the company’s Publisher to manage the breaking news writing staff as well as supervise and edit several investigative news reporters.  This is an exciting opportunity to shape the website’s future and will lead an expanding newsroom at a large, growing news site.

Responsibilities:

• Build the company’s brand as a critical, top-of-mind news site
• Lead investigative reporting growth and expansion
• Direct 10-person breaking news team
• Originate, critique and assign stories to breaking and investigative reporting teams
• Manage deputy editors and ensure shift leaders are productive
• Shepherd and edit investigative news projects
• Ensure content accuracy and quality control
• Grow audience, particularly younger readers
• Align editorial focus with subscriber interests in partnership with Subscriptions Director

Qualifications:

• Commensurate experience in political news
• Experience as an editor
• Thrives in a company that writes about politics, social justice, racial equity and corruption
• Experience in investigative reporting (producing or being lead editor)
• Experience promoting news on Social Media and SEO headline writing
• Experience with multi-platform (image and video) storytelling preferred
• Fluency with Chartbeat ideal
• Familiarity with other analytics tools

Required Notification:  Certain states require that job postings indicate a minimum and maximum base salary in an effort to not discriminate – a very worthwhile purpose that Media Recruiting Group supports. MRG’s practices are and have always been non-discriminatory, and jobs are open to all candidates with respect to race, color, religion, national origin, military status, sexual orientation, sex/gender, age, national origin, disability, etc.  That said, companies require that we supply them with candidates with very specific experience, and the commensurate compensation for every job varies.  It is a function of a person’s years of experience, type of experience, skills, knowledge of certain computer programs, etc.  And every job may have a unique requirement.  And every job could come in higher or lower than the range we are given.   We do not control the upper and lower ranges for our clients, so we make a best efforts attempt to include information requested by said states.  In the case of sales people, most time it is also a function of their contacts.  If the job is an analyst, analytical skills and experience matter.  Etc.  This makes stating a reasonable minimum and maximum challenging absent all of this information about a given candidate.  Companies also have other elements of compensation, including but not limited to, commission, bonus, equity, profit sharing, varying levels of healthcare coverage and how much a person would have to contribute to the premium, various perks like continuing education, commuter reimbursement, phone reimbursement, etc. – not included in “salary” as the law states.  Thus, know that anything we note in a salary range does NOT include such other compensation elements.  And, as recruiters, we don’t know what all of those elements are, as we are recruiting for a company, not for ourselves, and they do not brief us as to each benefit.  We are a 3^rd party and can only estimate to the best of our knowledge, and thus offer the minimum and maximum salary MRG in good faith believes at the time of the posting the client is willing to pay for the advertised job.

Qualified by all of the above, for this job with requisite/required  years of the required experience and skills, the minimum and maximum salary is approximated at $200,000 and $250,000 respectfully, exclusive of commission, bonus, equity, profit sharing, any element of healthcare coverage, any reference to how much a person would have to contribute to the premium of a healthcare plan, any perks, or other forms of compensation.  Fewer years of experience could bring the base salary lower, and more experience could bring the base salary higher, if the company is willing to increase their salary bands.