Community Partnerships & Training Editor
Description
Editor, Community Partnerships & Training
WNYC Newsroom
The nation’s largest public radio station is looking for a creative, innovative journalist to lead the newsroom’s Community Partnerships & Training.
This editor plays a critical role in helping the newsroom achieve its central goal: making New York City work for the people who live here. Specifically, they will develop meaningful, lasting relationships with communities across the metro region. They will help ordinary citizens tell their own stories, and find innovative ways to connect the WNYC newsroom to local communities around issues that matter to residents. This editor will also design, organize and lead the ongoing training of the newsroom staff.
The right candidate will have a background in both text and audio journalism, and also must believe deeply in the power of bringing more of the public into public media news coverage. They will be a strategic thinker who can implement ideas tactically, someone who understands modern audience engagement tools as well as the power of live audio and on-demand podcasts.
This position oversees at least one person and reports to the Director of Audio Strategy.
Responsibilities:
- Design and execute a community journalism efforts focused on getting first-person perspectives onto WNYC’s air and website
- Develop and maintain relationships with community partners, including community groups, organizations, local leaders and other media
- Conceive of and organize public events that serve to extend WNYC’s reach across New York City and the surrounding region
- Work with journalists across the newsroom to identify points of collaboration and lines of coverage born out of community engagement work
- Work collaboratively with stakeholders across New York Public Radio to evolve and lead the Radio Rookies program
- Design, implement, document and oversee an evolving training program that expands the journalism skills of the WNYC newsroom
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, creativity and innovation in storytelling
- Play a key role in the development, onboarding and career development of WNYC journalists, interns and fellows
- Show an interest and ability to work closely with other business-side colleagues, including revenue departments
- Fill in for editors on various shifts as needed
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 6 years of professional journalism experience
- Ability to lead, inspire and manage a team to produce high quality journalism that improves our audiences’ understanding of the New York City region
- Ability to conceive and executive innovative approaches to storytelling with a demonstrated ability to identify stories that engage audiences
- Deft writing and editing skills in both print and audio formats
- Excellent communication, organizational and time management skills
- Experience teaching a range of journalism skills and facilitating community discussions
- Deep commitment to accurate, ethical journalism
- Impeccable journalistic integrity and judgment
- Demonstrated knowledge of complex social and cultural issues
- Self-starter with proven ability to meet deadlines and pay close attention to detail and fact-checking
- Ability to manage several projects concurrently
- Demonstrated commitment and ability to contribute an equity lens to every aspect of people development and management processes, and ability to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion competency in newsrooms
- Fluency in at least one non-English language common in New York City preferred
Additional Information
This is a full-time role with an annual salary range of $115,000 to $130,000. Salary offered within this range is determined by skills, experience and organizational pay equity. New York Public Radio offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, along with vacation time, personal days, sick time and parental leave.
This individual is expected to work onsite at WNYC’s New York City office at least 3 days a week.
Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
New York Public Radio is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We continuously strive to place our employees at the center of our thinking and elevate inclusive practices to develop and support a more engaged and productive workforce. Our journalism and operations in the service of that journalism benefit from a broad range of perspectives, from all backgrounds, at all levels of the organization. Diversity is essential to honest, authentic, accurate storytelling and reportage; creating an institution in which all voices are encouraged, valued, and heard.
Equal Opportunity
New York Public Radio is an equal opportunity employer committed to achieving the goal of equal employment opportunity for all. Applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions without regard to mental or physical disability, race, creed, color, religion, gender, national origin, citizenship status, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, employment status or any protected federal, state or local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.