The Minnesota Star Tribune seeks a college and women’s sports editor

About the role

We are seeking a creative and entrepreneurial editor to help transform our college and women’s sports coverage. You will guide reporters in producing compelling news and enterprise stories about college athletes and teams across Minnesota, with an emphasis on the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers, and professional women’s sports teams, including the Lynx and Frost. Game coverage will play a secondary role to insightful and timely news scoops, enterprise, analysis, and accountability reporting.

You should excel at all aspects of story development and will help reporters create and deliver ambitious, useful, and distinctive journalism beyond traditional formats. You have a vision for making this journalism indispensable to our readers, constantly challenging yourself and your team with the question: Is this something our readers would willingly pay to read?

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the sports editor, sports audience editor, and other news leaders to determine daily, weekly, and ongoing coverage strategies across multiple platforms.
• Ensure reporters develop and implement data- and audience-informed coverage plans for their topic areas.
• Grow the Star Tribune’s off-platform presence for this content.
• Be enterprising and entrepreneurial, identifying stories that inform, surprise, and delight our audience.
• Adhere to best practices around analytics, search, and discovery.
• Engage with community leaders, citizens, and subscribers at forums and events.
• Demonstrate leadership with an emphasis on respectful inclusion while driving for excellence.
• Recruit, hire, and train for a broad range of skill sets.
• Lead and deliver transformational edits on both day-to-day stories and major projects.
• Enforce deadlines for quick-turn and long-range stories.
• Work regularly from the Star Tribune’s downtown headquarters.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in journalism or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
• Sharp editorial judgment and the ability to work with reporters of varying experience levels, serving as a coach, manager, and guide in a dynamic news environment.
• Willingness to be involved in all aspects of story development, from initial framing to final edits.
• Ability to lead a team through change as we restructure beat expectations and transition to digital platforms.
• Commitment to using and learning 21st-century digital tools, tracking audience trends, and building engagement strategies.
• Management skills that foster a creative and supportive culture.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work across a matrixed organization.
• Experience managing a budget, conducting performance reviews, and hiring.
• Ability to meet deadlines, prioritize assignments, track budgets, and multitask in a high-pressure environment.
• Commitment to the Star Tribune’s standards, mission, and values, including journalism that reflects the diversity of Minnesota and our audience.

Schedule

The expected work week for this position is Tuesday–Saturday. Some night shift work will be required, especially during football season.

Pay

Pay for this position starts at $92,890 a year, based on the contract of the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild.