The role of community editor is an opportunity to lead a team that is committed to excellence in journalism through service and leadership in the community. The Daily Press, based in Escanaba, Michigan, is seeking a leader that will serve the community and our readers through effective local reporting.
The community editor will be responsible for directing the newsroom staff in writing and producing a newspaper and digital platforms that inform the community with timely, accurate, interesting, and compelling news, sports, and feature stories of local interest. The managing editor will be responsible for hiring, developing, scheduling, and motivating the newsroom team. We are looking for a candidate who is positive, outgoing, self- motivated, detail-oriented, and willing to quickly adapt to meet the community’s needs. This is a unique opportunity to join our team and to continue to uphold the values of excellence and service that The Daily Press has provided to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula since March 19, 1909.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Oversee all editorial department operations.
- Adapt to an ever-evolving journalism industry, which requires flexibility, creativity, and implementation of synergistic solutions.
- Help to develop and maintain an effective and efficient editorial department strategy that focuses on local reporting of news, sports, people, entertainment, the arts, and the outdoors.
- Be hands-on with the newsroom as a part of the team, which includes writing, editing, and website maintenance. The community editor will help direct daily coverage and lead a daily budget meeting; plan long-term enterprise projects; work with reporters to improve their copy; provide training and cross-training for various newsroom roles; work with page designers to improve the newspaper’s appearance; write and report on important local happenings; and keep the community informed in a timely manner at dailypress.net.
- Uphold the newspaper’s high standards of journalism.
- Oversee the newspaper’s digital presence through its website and also its social media platforms.
- Assist in the process for talent acquisition to recruit and retain high quality employees with an opportunity to grow within the company.
- Enhance the newspaper’s presence in the community.
- Coordinate and work cooperatively with other newspaper departments to maximize efficiency and effectiveness of newspaper operations.
