Executive Editor, The Asheville Citizen-Times, Ashville, NC

About the role

USA TODAY Co., Inc. is a diversified media company with expansive reach at the national and local level dedicated to empowering and enriching communities. We seek to inspire, inform, and connect audiences as a sustainable, growth focused media and digital marketing solutions company. Through our trusted brands, including the USA TODAY NETWORK, comprised of the national publication, USA TODAY, and local media organizations, including our network of local properties, in the United States, and Newsquest, a wholly-owned subsidiary operating in the United Kingdom, we provide essential journalism, local content, and digital experiences to audiences and businesses. We deliver high-quality, trusted content with a commitment to balanced, unbiased journalism, where and when consumers want to engage. Our digital marketing solutions brand, LocaliQ, supports small and medium-sized businesses with innovative digital marketing products and solutions. The Asheville Citizen-Times, part of the USA TODAY NETWORK, is seeking a digital savvy, strategic and community minded executive editor who is committed to audience growth, digital innovation and powerful journalism in fast-growing Asheville and Western North Carolina. The ideal candidate has a collaborative mindset and is eager to work together to raise the newsroom’s digital acumen and drive high-quality journalism that is essential to the Western North Carolina communities it serves. This is a person fluid in news analytics, energized by new ideas, and whose enthusiasm for great journalism is contagious. The ideal candidate will be a transformational leader who is passionate about watchdog and enterprise reporting who also possesses a deep knowledge of audience. This editor must understand and illustrate how community engagement and subscriber loyalty are at the forefront of what we do