Lifestyle Trending News Editor

Responsibilities

• Generating an endless font of innovative and agenda-setting daily trending and exclusive ideas.
• Assigning and editing trending daily stories, at high speed.
• Creating a short and long term strategy for the lifestyle news department, leveraging audience insights platforms, to meet the department’s goals.
• Overseeing the production of a number of daily stories — from writing headlines in the Post’s signature wit to ensuring SEO best practices to coordinating photo shoots and imagery.
• Constantly analyzing web traffic and referral metrics to drive audience engagement and traffic.
• Monitoring the news to look for opportunities to add depth to our headlines through original reporting, first-person perspectives and expert explainers.
• Managing the lifestyle news reporters and editors on the team.
• Coinciding closely with other departments such as photo, video, and audience development.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of editing experience in a news or fast moving magazine environment, preferably in a lifestyle or culture department.
• Excellent news judgement and the sharpest editing and writing prowess.
• Your finger on the pulse of the topics and trends of interest to the Post audience.
• Proven understanding of what makes a story successful across digital platforms - from headlines to visuals and optimization.
• Proficiency in WordPress or similar CMS.
• Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to manage multiple stories, writers, and deadlines simultaneously.
• Comfortable making fast, decisive editorial calls in a breaking news environment.
• Proven team leader who is skilled at managing and developing writers and can work across departments including visuals, social, and audience development.
• Expertise with analytics tools and performance metrics to help guide coverage and strategy.
• Deep understanding of referral traffic, particularly, social, search and Discover.
• Proven experience in driving and retaining audiences, with deeper, engagement-focused content.