Senior Editor, Visuals, CNN

Your New Role

CNN's global Visuals team is seeking a senior editor to help lead our visual journalism during critical late-day and evening news hours. This is an editorial leadership and people-management role for an experienced visual journalist who can guide breaking news coverage, shape ambitious enterprise projects and help teams produce clear, accurate and distinctive storytelling across formats.

Role Accountabilities

• Set editorial priorities for the Visuals team during late-day and evening news hours, ensuring strong communication and handoffs across time zones.
• Anticipate breaking news coverage needs and lead visual responses across a wide variety of scenarios.
• Assign and edit graphics, maps, visual stories, interactives, annotations and other formats for breaking news, daily coverage and medium- to long-term enterprise projects.
• Edit visual and data-driven stories, including both graphics and text, ensuring clear framing, strong reporting and journalism-first execution.
• Review story structure, design, data analysis, visualizations and interactive storytelling to ensure they meet rigorous editorial and design standards.
• Identify visual opportunities across CNN’s coverage and work proactively with editors and reporters on other desks to develop strong approaches.
• Lead major projects in partnership with multiple teams and stakeholders, establishing clear expectations, timelines and decision-making processes.
• Collaborate with platform and distribution teams to strengthen the framing and packaging of visual stories across home screens, apps and off-platform channels.
• Maintain an organized view of assignments, priorities and handoffs for global coverage.
• Manage, mentor and support a group of visual journalists, providing thoughtful feedback and helping teammates develop their skills and careers.
• Refined workflows, document processes and contribute to a collaborative culture of experimentation and skill-sharing.
• Apply audience insights to help shape story ideas, formats and approaches that resonate with and serve CNN’s audiences.

Qualifications & Experience

• At least 7 years of experience in a newsroom or comparable editorial environment, including experience editing visual or data-driven journalism.
• Experience managing visual journalists and supporting their day-to-day work, long-term development and career growth.
• Impeccable news judgment and the ability to lead calmly and decisively during breaking news.
• A proven ability to edit both visual storytelling and text, from early framing and reporting through final publication.
• Strong visual judgment and experience reviewing story design, data visualization, interactives, maps and other graphics formats.
• A track record of identifying strong story ideas and pushing storytelling beyond obvious or incremental approaches.
• A strong representative of the Visuals team within a wider organization: you build positive cross-team relationships and champion visual journalism as essential to coverage.
• Experience editing or leading elections coverage, including familiarity with election results, political data and map-driven storytelling, is strongly preferred.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working with senior newsroom leaders, reporters, editors, designers, data journalists and developers.
• Experience balancing fast-turn breaking news coverage with medium- and long-term enterprise projects.
• A reader-first perspective and strong commitment to clarity, accuracy and multiplatform storytelling.
• Familiarity with modern data, mapping, design and visualization tools is helpful, but deep technical expertise is not required.
• Curiosity and openness to experimenting with new storytelling formats, platforms and emerging technologies.

Compensation

Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery’s total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $79,800.00 - $148,199.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.