Hearst Connecticut Media Group’s journalists cover communities in Fairfield and New Haven Counties and beyond, serving readers across platforms, including our websites – which now includes a statewide website, CTInsider.com - an app, newsletters, social media accounts and more for eight daily and 13 weekly newspapers!

We’re looking for an enterprising, audience-focused and collaborative Assistant Managing Editor to help lead our Connecticut Post publication and team at a time when we’re growing digital subscriptions.

The editor should be adept at managing a daily flow of stories to inform and engage local readers. They should be able to use audience data to inform news coverage decisions, while evolving content with depth, interactivity and reach through a digital lens.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Works collaboratively with the managing editor, editors, other reporters, photographers and audience team members to tell impactful stories quickly and accurately across platforms that engage and retain local subscribers and other readers
• Conceptualize and assign stories aimed at growing digital audience, guiding staffers through the reporting process and editing their work with excellent command of grammar, usage and AP style
• Competitively breaks news in HCMG’s core coverage areas and beyond, by quickly writing or assigning stories with statewide reach
• Communicates quickly and effectively with reporters to break news online and follows up when appropriate with more in-depth enterprise pieces
• Demonstrates a high comfort level with analyzing and interpreting metrics and uses them to inform coverage decisions in real-time and the long-term
• Develops the talents of staffers, offering constructive criticism of their work. Coordinates with managers in other newsrooms and non-editorial departments on projects

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience managing newsroom personnel and producing high-quality breaking news and enterprise journalism across digital and print platforms
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in journalism, English, communications or related field preferred
• Demonstrated success working in a deadline-driven environment
• Highly organized and detail-oriented with a proven ability to effectively juggle multiple tasks
• Ability to speak a second language like Spanish a plus!

Some great candidates may not check all the boxes for this role. If you’re a passionate, dedicated worker who's interested in Hearst Connecticut Media Group but don’t have all the skills listed here, please still reach out and tell us more about what you bring to the table.

This full-time job with benefits is based in Connecticut and is not eligible for remote candidates.

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