What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Audience Editor position at Bloomberg Industry Group?
Join Bloomberg Industry Group's fast-paced newsroom and build wide audiences for our top-tier, industry-leading journalism. The senior audience editor creates and edits news content, harnessing the capabilities of digital platforms and tools. If you have strong news instincts, find innovation exciting, thrive when news is breaking, understand the power of social media, enjoy workshopping headlines, and geek out over homepage curation, we’d love to meet you. You will work with a team of dedicated and creative audience journalists who move fast, own developments, and anticipate the developments that will resonate with audiences across the tax, legal, government, and business world. This position collaborates with teams in all corners of the Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Tax, and Bloomberg Government newsroom and works on developments ranging from breaking news to special deep-dive projects.
What you will do:
Bloomberg Industry Group maintains a continuing policy of non-discrimination in employment. It is Bloomberg Industry Group’s policy to provide equal opportunity and access for all persons, and the Company is committed to attracting, retaining, developing, and promoting the most qualified individuals without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or maternity/parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law (“Protected Characteristic”). Bloomberg prohibits treating applicants or employees less favorably in connection with the terms and conditions of employment, in all phases of the employment process, because of one or more Protected Characteristics (“Discrimination”).
What you will do:
- Plan, pitch, and execute stories that inform and delight our audiences.
- Seriously, it’s that first thing. But you will also get to coach reporters on how to break more and bigger stories, help us select terrific feature ideas, make sure we meet deadlines, and pitch ideas for videos and podcasts.
- Have exceptional curiosity and news judgment to unpack complicated legal and government actions, and then to help reporters make them interesting.
- Demonstrate excellent editing and writing skills.
- Be highly collaborative and show the ability to manage change, influence others in the newsroom, and communicate with reporters and editors of various backgrounds and experience levels.
- Have excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills, along with the ability to juggle stories and meet tight newsroom deadlines.
- Be a self-starter who sets high standards and leads by personal example and can help guide reporters towards becoming stronger journalists.
- A bachelor’s degree required.
- Seven-or-more years of experience in journalism.
Bloomberg Industry Group maintains a continuing policy of non-discrimination in employment. It is Bloomberg Industry Group’s policy to provide equal opportunity and access for all persons, and the Company is committed to attracting, retaining, developing, and promoting the most qualified individuals without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or maternity/parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law (“Protected Characteristic”). Bloomberg prohibits treating applicants or employees less favorably in connection with the terms and conditions of employment, in all phases of the employment process, because of one or more Protected Characteristics (“Discrimination”).