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EDITOR

Job Details

In Business - Madison, WI
Full Time
4 Year Degree
Negligible

Description

Overall Responsibilities:

  • Manage editorial department functions across all platforms: print, digital, and social media, with a focus on creating, producing, and maintaining high-quality journalism standards.

  • Editor-in-chief role has community-facing responsibilities. These include:

    • Participation and attendance in all IB Madison led public and private events

    • Regular participation in other community and business centric events

    • Forge and maintain cordial and professional relationships with local business leaders. These include public and privately held companies, non-profit organizations, government, and higher education institutions, as well as local chamber of commerce organizations.

Specific Responsibilities:

  • Develop short- and long-term direction and creative strategies for all editorial products, which promotes significant audience engagement, and growth across all platforms.

  • Assign stories, photographs, photo captions and graphics — for print and digital assets — and edit this material for news value, accuracy, clarity and timeliness.

  • Overall responsibility for daily e-newsletter publication.

  • Check and/or review editorial material for libel, taste, style, accuracy, fairness and reader interest.

  • Ensure that the Editorial staff are providing consistent and timely updates to the IB-Madison digital site, and associated social media accounts. 

  • Monitor regional and statewide business, government, and community news and associated issues relevant to our current and desired audience base.

  • Assist with hiring, evaluating and training new employee owners across other departments.

  • Manage editorial department budget. Monitor and report budget projections and variances.

  • Maintain and process necessary records.

  • Coordinate planning and production of editorial content, ensuring that standards of quality, editorial direction, and style are met for all products.

  • Coach, train, and evaluate performance of editorial employee owners.

  • Suggests and initiates programs and procedures to enhance products, efficiency and morale.

  • Adheres to company and departmental policies.

  • Adheres to standard practices and ethical standards of the industry.

  • Positive representative of department, company and industry at all times.

  • Attends and participates in corporate initiatives such as Great Game of Business, ESOP meetings, safety training, etc.

  • Provides quality customer service via phone, email, and face-to-face interaction to both internal and external customers.

  • Communicates information to the appropriate individuals and/or departments in a timely manner, such as news tips, source suggestions or real or potential customer-relations issues.

  • In addition to editorial staff, Works in collaboration with all departments and staff.

  • Other job-related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Behavior: Commitment to quality and service. A leader and role model. A positive representative of the company, corporation and profession. A team player. Dresses appropriately for the job. Maintains a valid driver’s license.

Skills: Planning, management and organization, editing, writing, spelling and grammar. Ability to track and incorporate analytics into news placement decisions. Ability to learn and use new technology. Meets deadlines.
Knowledge: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent. Five years of media and/or publishing leadership experience.

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