Job description

The Daily Herald is searching for a digital news editor to help drive innovation and ensure we deliver our online audiences the highest-caliber journalism in different, unique and always-improving ways.

This is a key senior management position in our newsroom, responsible for the day-to-day oversight of the digital news operation as well as helping develop long-term strategies for growing our digital audience on all of our platforms.

We're looking for a passionate, inspirational, collaborative leader to work with our growing digital team to help further establish our digital-first newsroom culture.

First and foremost, we seek an experienced journalist with strong news judgment and a demonstrated ability to produce and oversee high-quality work. We're seeking an enthusiastic leader, someone who loves a good story and helping tell that story in new ways to our digital audience. This is a rather hands-on job much of the time, including occasionally stepping in for frontline web producers and editing content on a daily basis.

The digital news editor works closely with the executive editor, local news editor, the chief photographer and others to shape the daily news product. They also participate in management decisions about staffing and personnel, budgeting, coverage and other strategic areas.

The person also collaborates with audience development, product development and other departments to communicate technology needs and advocate on the newsroom's behalf. We need someone as comfortable talking with a reporter about their copy as they are a programmer about a needed upgrade.

We're looking for someone experienced using analytics to help inform digital strategy and with a proven track record of growing audiences, training staffers to reach new audiences and helping other journalists develop by inspiring and setting goals and expectations for them along the way.

The digital news editor must be detail-oriented and able to critically evaluate newsroom processes, structure and workflow to achieve efficiency without sacrificing quality. In the first 12 months, the person hired can expect to be involved in the implementation of a new content management system as well as oversee substantial upgrades to the HeraldNet.com website.

The Daily Herald with its website, HeraldNet.com, has been the leading news and information source in Snohomish County, Washington, for more than a century. We are in Everett, a vibrant and growing community 30 miles north of Seattle, framed by Puget Sound to the west and the Cascade Range to the east.

If this job sounds like a good opportunity and you're looking to join a dynamic, growing newsroom in one of the most beautiful parts of the United States, we'd love to hear from you.

No calls, please. To apply, please send the following: (1) a resumé and cover letter outlining how you are a good fit for this position and your vision for it; (2) at least three professional references along with your Indeed submission. Please also include your salary requirements.

Sound Publishing is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workplace. Visit our website to find out more about us! www.soundpublishing.com

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Preferred)

Experience:

• Journalism: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: One location

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