The Managing Editor oversees the Daily Desk, enhancing workflow and journalism quality, coordinating sports coverage, editing stories, and managing staff schedules, while ensuring timely journalism across multiple platforms.
About Us
Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic brings sports fans the most comprehensive stories about the teams, sports and athletes they love. The Athletic’s newsroom of 500+ full-time staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across more than 47 North American markets and all 20 football clubs in the English Premier League, as well as many Championship clubs.
About the Role
The Athletic is hiring a managing editor for our Daily Desk, with a particular emphasis on planning and coordination when it comes to work flow and collaboration. This person will focus on how the desk works across the newsroom to strengthen the quality of our everyday journalism and to seize on opportunities throughout the sports world for compelling stories. The is staffed from early in the North America day to late in the North America night, and bridges with our team in London to give us 24/7 coverage.
Successful candidates must have a mastery of news judgment and coordination to launch on stories on a wide range of subjects in sports. They will work with individual sport verticals to plan and assess coverage and with colleagues on the Daily Desk to position us well for key moments and the most important stories. The role requires deft editing skills, both directly and through the coaching of other editors on the desk, and it calls for superior planning capabilities. Successful editors need to work with accuracy, clarity, thoroughness, flexibility and speed, and must be able to help others do the same. Duties will mainly involve editing and management of the Daily Desk but can vary, depending on news demands, staffing and other factors. The work will heavily focus on collaboration with reporters and editors as a top advocate for urgent and timely journalism throughout the newsroom.
The job is remote, for candidates located in either the United States or Canada. It will sometimes require work during nights and weekends, in line with the newsroom’s needs and the sports calendar.
Responsibilities
- Assist senior managing editor with leadership of the desk and management duties, with ownership of specific areas of the desk’s functions.
- Lead the improvement of workflow and best practices for the desk and its wide range of assignments and demands.
- Collaborate with design and photo teams and with other areas of the newsroom as necessary.
- Maintain a strong understanding of search optimization and how to identify coverage opportunities.
- Have input on staff schedules, working to resolve needs of a large staff and to position editors to do their best work.
- Plan staffing for high impact moments and a balanced workload.
- Rigorously edit and publish stories from sportswriters of numerous types.
- Collaborate with sport editors to launch coverage around breaking news and to strategize around other stories, including coverage of key events.
- Maintain strong ties with leading vertical editors to help in wider coordination.
- Maintain strong story budgets and communicate during key meetings and handoffs.
- Coordinate with the audience team to maximize story promotion and ensure stories are published in peak publishing windows.
- Coordinate with reporters in the field and editors who are contributing to coverage.
- Maintain strong understanding of style and story structure, with the ability to identify mistakes and to improve pieces as needed.
- Work to draw out the distinctive, compelling and authentic voice we bring to all coverage, particularly for nuanced and difficult stories.
- Regularly lift stories by making sure they are clear and compelling and collaboratively seeking improvements, with an eye toward continuously improving our overall work.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience editing news stories of various types, including breaking news.
- 4+ years of journalistic managerial experience, preferably with direct oversight of other editors.
- Strong copy editing experience, with demonstrated consistency in lifting and strengthening stories as well as coaching colleagues on editing and reporting.
- An ability and willingness to work nights and weekends and to serve on call in big moments.
- Interest and knowledge across a range of different sports, with demonstrated experience generating story ideas and helping own a report.
- A demonstrated ability to mentor more inexperienced editors and reporters.
- Familiarity with WordPress is a bonus, but must have strong comfort working in a content management system for news.
- An ability to work in the United States or Canada.
The annual base salary range for this role is $120,000.00 - $135,000.00 USD. The total compensation offered for this position may vary based on factors such as education, experience, skills, and location.
For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.
For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be provided during the interview process.
The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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