Date Posted	October 16, 2025
Industry	Digital Media
Specialty	Not Specified
Remote / Telecommute	Hybrid
Job Status	Full-time
Salary	$75,000

Description:

Editor in Chief, Fayetteville

Job Description 

The Assembly Network is looking for an ambitious and visionary newsroom leader in Fayetteville to oversee CityView’s current editorial team and plans for future growth. This is an exciting opportunity to spearhead and shape our daily and enterprise coverage in the region. CityView’s editorial team is part of The Assembly Network, which includes regional newsrooms working to bolster and deepen journalism across North Carolina. 

The editor in chief will be responsible for developing, assigning, and editing stories across CityView’s products, with an eye for accountability, narrative storytelling, and filling gaps in the news landscape. This editor should also be able to identify local and regional stories that merit statewide attention, and think creatively about how to localize reporting from our statewide newsroom. 

Responsibilities also include managing a team of three full-time reporters, leading future reporter hiring and growth, working with freelance writers and photographers, and coordinating with business and production staff. This is a public-facing role in the organization, and the editor will be expected to develop and grow relationships in the community, and support CityView’s staff and board in outreach and appeals. The editor will report to The Assembly Network’s senior regional editor and will work closely with others across the organization.

The ideal candidate has at least 10 years of experience, including time spent reporting, editing, and managing reporters. This person should be enthusiastic about the future of local news and CityView’s role in contributing to the success of a dynamic news startup. 

Responsibilities

• Develop, assign, and edit stories from staff reporters and freelancers

• Manage a combination of daily and enterprise stories, as well as special projects 

• Support and guide reporters in their newsgathering and judgment

• Develop organizational goals and objectives

• Collaborate with reporters and editors across the network

Qualifications

• 10 years of journalism experience, ideally including time as a reporter and as an editor

• Able to write with a clear, engaging voice that connects with readers, and to self-edit

• Familiarity with the standards and ethics of journalism, as well as both CityView and The Assembly’s work

• Demonstrated experience in conceiving and executing editorial strategy 

• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively 

• Knowledge of and experience reporting in North Carolina, specifically Fayetteville, is a plus. If you are coming from outside the area, readiness to immerse yourself in the city and state is a must.

Salary and Benefits

Our starting salary for this position will begin around $75,000, though we are open to discussing higher salaries for more experienced candidates. We’ll ask you to be upfront during the interview process with your needs, and we’ll do the same about our abilities. We offer a competitive benefits package, including health care, parental leave, and life insurance. 

How to Apply

To apply, we invite candidates to submit answers to the following questions: 

1. Why Fayetteville, and why now? 

2. A short critique of a recent CityView story or newsletter. How would you have shaped this story differently as an editor or reporter? (500 words max)

3. Tell us about a favorite story or project you have worked on, either as a reporter or editor. What made it stand out for you?

4. What excites you most about this role? What makes you nervous?

Email answers in Google Doc or pdf along with a resume, the names and contact information for three references, and links to three writing samples or clips to jobs@theassemblync.com. You do not need to send a cover letter.  

We will begin reviewing applications on October 27, 2025.

About The Assembly Network

The Assembly launched February 2021 with the audacious idea that we could tell ambitious, challenging stories about North Carolina, and build a sustainable business plan to support that work. We tell compelling and nuanced stories about our state, without fear or favor to any party or power structure. Key areas of coverage include politics, courts, higher education, culture, and accountability. 

Over the last four years, we have hired a team of journalists across the state and given them the space to be ambitious and thoughtful. We’ve hired editors with a wealth of experience and knowledge and an ability to elevate stories. We seek to produce journalism that will alternately surprise, inform, outrage, and delight you. The common thread uniting our work is that it leaves you with a better understanding of the place you call home. 

At the state level, we are a subscriber-supported, for-profit outlet focused on great magazine-style journalism. We partner with other outlets in the state and nationally, and our stories are regularly cited in outlets such as Politico, The Washington Post, Sunday Long Read, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Axios.

We’ve built, acquired, or integrated with newsrooms at the local level across the state, including CityView in Fayetteville, INDY in the Triangle, The Thread in Greensboro, and Border Belt Independent in Southeastern NC. In addition to subscriber support, our efforts are made possible by a combination of advertising, events, and philanthropy. 

We aim to be a reflection of the state, with reporters from and based in diverse communities across North Carolina. We also aim to bring national talent to North Carolina that can help us improve the journalism ecosystem in a growing and important state. 

We want a newsroom that reflects a diversity of talent and perspectives. We encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, people who were formerly incarcerated, veterans, and people with disabilities.