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Crain’s Detroit Business seeks an experienced journalist to serve as Assistant Managing Editor, leading reporters and working as an integral part of the editing leadership team.
The Assistant Managing Editor will focus on high-quality journalism that resonates with Crain’s audience and understand how to get the best work out of the reporting team. This digital newsroom is audience-focused and innovative, while keeping quality journalism at the center.
We are looking for a confident, hands-on news leader with experience managing a daily news team. This candidate must have excellent news judgment and be comfortable handling breaking news while also knowing how to successfully work with reporters to execute in-depth enterprise stories.
RESPONSIBILITIES
This editor will:
- Lead a team of reporters to successfully pursue, edit and package daily stories and longer-term enterprise that resonate with our audience.
- Work closely with the editing leadership team to ensure the most relevant stories are delivered to our audience.
- Use data to inform decisions to ensure the highest quality journalism is connecting with our current audience as well as prospective subscribers.
- Coach and train reporters in reporting, beat-building and digital best practices.
- Be a team player and problem solver who works well across departments to ensure we are delivering for our audience every day.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Excellent news judgment and demonstrated experience leading creative daily news coverage that builds and serves a loyal, engaged audience.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and edit under deadline pressure.
- Experience as a newsroom manager in hiring, growing and inspiring journalists.
- Demonstrated project management experience.
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically and act quickly on new digital audience growth opportunities.
- Existing knowledge of metro Detroit, business journalism and the metro Detroit business community are all pluses.
- Solid understanding of content management systems and web-based products and standards.
- Experience building large, loyal audiences through SEO, UX, audience analytics and social media.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, verbal and written, with the ability to effectively collaborate across the organization, including with Crain’s events and audience teams.
This position is exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.
Pay Transparency Disclosure:
The estimated salary range for this position is $70,000 to $93,000.
The final salary offering will take into account a wide range of factors, including experience, accomplishments and location. The salary range provided should not be considered as a salary limit or cap. In addition to base salary, Crain also offers competitive benefits including retirement plan savings contributions and bonus opportunities based on individual and company performance.
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Brand Overview:
Since 1985,
Crain's Detroit Business
has been the premier source of local business news and information for the Detroit’s area's influential business executives. Crain’s Detroit Business is a full-service communications company – connecting affluent and influential decision makers by providing insights, analysis and opinion needed to navigate Detroit’s business landscape. We are constantly innovating to solve your business problems – from both inside and outside our newsroom. Our integrated approach - across print, digital, in-person event and custom content platforms - aligns powerful content with a powerful audience.www.crainsdetroit.com
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Crain Overview:
Crain Communications
has been at the forefront of the publishing industry for more than a century. As a privately held company, we maintain a personal responsibility for elevating our work to be the best it can be.Environmental Demands
Where you work matters. The job posting will provide specific information on where and when your amazing work would be performed. Employee work location is determined by the needs of the specific team and may include on-site, hybrid or remote.
- An “in-office” role would require the employee to come into the office most days with occasional flexibility to work remotely if tasks can be performed elsewhere and if the manager approves.
- A “remote” role would allow an employee to work from a home office that is in one of the states Crain does business in. See list accompanying this job posting. We cannot employ a work from home employee unless they reside in one of these states.
- A “hybrid” role would be a mix of in-office and remote work. There may be a specified schedule for coming into the office or it could be at the discretion of the employee with the manager’s approval.
Many positions will also include work done in “the field.” Depending on the role, this may include conducting in-person interviews, attending work-related events, meeting with sources or clients. Specifics will be noted in the job posting. Employees may be exposed to adverse environmental conditions, specifically during field work. Other typical job functions are performed under conditions such as those found in general office work.
Travel to cover news stories/events, meetings with clients, and to our geographically separated offices may be required. It is the nature of many positions to experience non-standard working hours and be on-call when needed for responding to email, meeting with clients, attending work-related events, story development or breaking news. Most employees perform work Monday through Friday, although early-morning, evening or weekend shifts may be required.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of many Crain jobs.
Physical activities will include frequent in-person or virtual interactions. For most positions, it is essential to be able to remain at a desk/computer workstation for prolonged periods, perform computer-related tasks, and create/maintain documents within filing systems. Must have close visual acuity to perform an activity, such as preparing and analyzing reports and information, transcribing, viewing a computer terminal, or extensive reading. The typical physical requirements are light work—exerting up to 25 lbs of force occasionally and/or up to 10 lbs of force frequently and may include climbing, pushing, standing, hearing, walking, reaching, grasping, kneeling, stooping, and repetitive motion. Some positions will have additional physical requirements, including exerting up to 50 lbs of force to move and/or carry equipment, supplies, files, or other materials as the role requires.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions and meet the environmental and physical demands of the role.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
