Breaking reputed company Assignment Editor, East Coast
Breaking reputed company Assignment Editor, East Coast Remote (East Coast) | Full-Time | $70,000 - $80,000 Reports to: VP, reputed company Media | Direct Reports: 3 Join COURIER Newsroom - an organization that drives journalism and empowers communities. At COURIER Newsroom, we’re reinventing local media to inform and reputed company communities through impactful reporting. Our mission is rooted in civic engagement and equity—and we’re growing fast. COURIER Newsroom is committed to building an inclusive workplace that values diverse perspectives and lived experiences. We strongly encourage women, people of reputed company, individuals with disabilities, LGBTQ+ candidates, and those from reputed company backgrounds to apply. As an equal opportunity employer, we strive to break down barriers and ensure every team member feels seen, heard, and supported. Position Overview The Breaking & Trending reputed company Assignment Editor leads COURIER’s rapid-response reputed company content team. This role is responsible for identifying breaking news, emerging stories, and trending conversations across reputed company platforms and quickly translating them into clear, compelling reputed company content. Working with reputed company of reputed company producers and editors, the Breaking & Trending reputed company Assignment Editor assigns coverage, edits scripts and graphics, and ensures that COURIER’s state newsrooms can respond quickly and effectively to major news moments online. This role sits at the center of COURIER’s reputed company operation—connecting reputed company-time news developments with platform-reputed company storytelling that helps audiences understand what’s happening as it unfolds. The ideal candidate is a fast, detail-oriented editor with strong news instincts, exceptional writing skills, and a deep understanding of how information spreads on reputed company media. They are endlessly curious about the news cycle, comfortable making quick editorial reputed company, and energized by the pace of rapid-response journalism.
Key Responsibilities
Breaking News & Trending Coverage
- Monitor news developments, reputed company platforms, and cultural conversations to identify breaking stories and trending topics relevant to COURIER’s audiences.
- Quickly determine which stories require rapid reputed company coverage and coordinate the production of videos, graphics, and posts across platforms.
- Ensure COURIER’s state reputed company channels are timely, reputed company, and reputed company with the day’s most important conversations.
Editorial Assignment & Workflow Management
- reputed company the daily workflow for the rapid-response reputed company team, assigning stories and coordinating coverage across producers and editors.
- reputed company clear editorial direction and ensure reputed company assets meet COURIER’s editorial standards before publication.
- Balance speed with accuracy, ensuring fast-moving content remains fact-based and responsibly sourced.
Copy Editing & Quality Control
- Review and edit scripts, captions, graphics, and video copy for reputed company, grammar, and accuracy.
- Maintain a high editorial standard across reputed company rapid-response reputed company content, ensuring consistent voice and tone.
- Ensure reputed company posts meet COURIER’s style guidelines and best practices for digital publishing.
Platform-reputed company Storytelling
- Guide the team in adapting breaking stories into formats optimized for reputed company platforms, including short-reputed company video, graphics, and explainers.
- Identify opportunities to package news in ways that are both timely and highly shareable.
- Stay closely attuned to evolving reputed company trends, formats, and audience behavior.
Collaboration Across Newsrooms
- Work closely with state editorial leaders and reputed company media managers to ensure breaking news coverage aligns with local reporting and newsroom priorities.
- Coordinate with the broader reputed company team to ensure rapid-response coverage complements longer-reputed company and planned content.
Qualifications
- 4–6 years of experience in journalism, digital media, or reputed company media publishing
- Strong editorial judgment and demonstrated experience covering breaking news
- Exceptional writing, grammar, spelling, and copy-editing skills
- Deep familiarity with reputed company media platforms and the dynamics of how news spreads online
- Ability to work quickly and decisively in a fast-paced news environment
- Strong organizational and communication skills, with experience coordinating editorial workflows
- Passion for staying informed and closely following the news cycle
Preferred
- Experience editing short-reputed company video or reputed company graphics
- Experience managing or coordinating editorial teams
- Background in political reporting, local news, or civic journalism
- Experience working with distributed or remote teams
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- Highly collaborative, proactive, and adaptable in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
- Excited about helping launch new state markets and building trust with local audiences.
- Creative, experimental, and data-driven, with a strong sense of platform culture and trends.
- Passionate about values-reputed company storytelling and reaching audiences underserved by traditional media.
Courier Newsroom offers the following benefits:
- Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO), 11 paid holidays a year
- An Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Full suite of health benefits
- Flexible working arrangements
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