Editorial Director
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Editorial Director guiding Spotlight PA’s Pennsylvania accountability newsroom. Setting editorial strategy, managing journalists, investigative projects, partnerships, budget, and audience growth.
Responsibilities:
- Refine and oversee Spotlight PA’s editorial vision and strategy
- Set editorial priorities and oversee newsroom workflow
- Oversee story production and editing, newsletters, engagement, and partner initiatives
- Ensure a consistent pipeline of investigative and enterprise projects
- Maintain standards for clear, accurate, and compelling writing
- Measure progress and impact against the organizational mission and Vision 2035 strategic plan
- Update the CEO on strategy, major investigations, projects, and initiatives
- Collaborate with the CEO and Director of Growth and Product Strategy on audience and product goals
- Recruit, supervise, mentor, and evaluate editorial leaders, editors, and reporters
- Identify needed newsroom roles and work with the CEO to fund them
- Communicate opportunities for advancement, skill-building, and training
- Communicate goals and strategy to editorial staff
- Establish feedback processes, serve as a sounding board, and hold office hours
- Oversee newsroom policy, including policies governing the use of AI
- Represent the newsroom to staff, donors, board members, community members, and other stakeholders
- Participate in board meetings, community events, conferences, and funding-related cohorts
- Serve as point person for editorial partnerships and collaborations
- Manage the newsroom budget and participate in annual budgeting
- Work with the development team on fundraising, membership growth, revenue-generating editorial products and projects, and newsroom-based grants
- Protect editorial independence, prevent siloing, and maintain communication across the organization
Requirements:
- Significant experience leading accountability journalism at a high level
- Experience managing editors and reporters
- Experience taking ambitious and innovative investigative projects from idea through publication and impact
- Demonstrated experience executing priorities and workflow
- Ability to juggle competing opportunities with limited resources
- Experience communicating with reporters, funders, board members, and other audiences
- Ability to build and sustain a healthy newsroom culture
- Experience developing staff throughout their careers
- Creative thinking about technology, audience, and product
- Experience as both an editor and people manager
- Experience prioritizing newsroom diversity
- Experience managing personnel challenges
- Top-notch organizational skills and demonstrated attention to detail
- Ability to work collaboratively with external partners
- Must be based in Pennsylvania or willing to relocate in short order
- Willingness to travel for in-state engagements and national conferences several times per year
- Resume and cover letter required
Benefits:
- Benefits included
- Diverse and inclusive culture
- Opportunities for advancement, skill-building, and training
- Travel for in-state engagements and national conferences several times per year
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