Supervisor Digital/Community News
Gazette Regional/Media Company
modified 2/11/2010
This position is responsible for managing enterprise mobile journalists and working with Online product managers to experiment and offer content relevant to their core product mission. Other responsibilities include:
• Cover/Report content areas where there are gaps in coverage
• Offer, align, test, and engage in new solutions especially when it comes to beat blogging, or developing a structure to gather and display “atomized” content
• Review and recommend alternative or “new” vision on how to report stories
• Develop and launch community engagement initiatives to reach out to the community to add their stories into our overall mix of content. Develop a pool of resources, experiment and have some fun.
• Devise and launch a strategy to post lower trafficked blogs on alternative sites
• Define and conduct training on various topics from some basic how-to’s on blogging, utilizing social media in story-telling, to steps to “spice” up our day-to-day coverage
Position requires a 4-year degree in journalism, communications or equivalent experience as a reporter in a newsroom, with at least 5 years experience as a reporter, producer, desk editor or assignment manager and 3 years direct management experience. Must have excellent news judgment, strong editorial, organizational and people skills. Proven record in creative story-telling and script editing is a must. Must maintain a valid driver’s license and acceptable driving record.
Full-time