Executive Editor

Description:

Executive Editor

One of Oklahoma’s largest areas, home to a vibrant and culturally diverse news market, is looking for its next top newsroom leader. The Tulsa World is seeking an experienced and innovative editor who pursues journalism of significance – with a strong emphasis on breaking news, business, food, public safety and a robust college sports scene – and is able to use digital readership analytics as a strong compass for guiding news staffing and strategy.

The opportunity 
The Tulsa World is looking for an outstanding Executive Editor who can reimagine the future of news coverage in ways that captivate and engage readers and audiences on emerging platforms and who keeps a close watch on digital reader trends and habits. The successful candidate will be highly driven to grow our digital subscriptions, audience and offerings to readers by pursuing the most relevant, high-impact and high-interest content.

We are seeking a transformational and experienced news leader to drive high-impact watchdog journalism and high-interest local news.

Candidate profile

The ideal candidate should have the following professional qualities and skills:

• Set overall strategic vision and direction of the newsroom across print and digital platforms and seek new ways of telling community stories to grow our content offerings and our audience.
• Cultivate relationships with key community stakeholders and sources; foster engagement between newsroom staff members and the communities they serve.
• Train, mentor and sustain a newsroom team that consists of both emerging and veteran talent.
• Be able to clearly articulate and communicate a vision for high-impact journalism and be in the moment to capture audience growth on emerging platforms.
• Recruit and retain some of the industry’s top talent.
• Demonstrate a deep commitment to the highest standards of journalistic ethics and show a track record of producing journalism of significance.
• Has the ability to recognize and prioritize competing needs on various platforms to successfully leverage newsroom resources for outstanding results.
• Manage for results in a metrics-driven environment.
• Clear understanding of the First Amendment and the highest regard for upholding those standards.
• Establish and enforce newsroom policies, procedures, workflows and deadlines.

Preferred skills and experience

• 10-plus years as a working journalist.
• 5-plus years in a management role at a news organization.
• Experience successfully leading a large, complex, high-volume and high-quality newsroom.
• Degree in journalism or relevant field.

About the Tulsa World
The Tulsa World is one of the largest news print publications in the state and one of the largest drivers of digital readership among Lee Enterprises’ news agencies. Primary coverage areas include the city of Tulsa and its surrounding metro and suburban areas. Tulsa is home to vibrant business and food scene and has a consistently busy and robust news cycle.

Why Join Us?

Lee Enterprises offers competitive wages in a dynamic, interesting work environment with career growth opportunities. We offer an extensive benefit program that can be personalized to your needs. Our benefit program includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, company provided life insurance and supplemental life insurance. In addition, we offer a 401K retirement plan with company match. We also offer generous paid time off to allow the flexibility to balance personal life and work. This includes paid parental leave for new parents. 

Lee Enterprises is a major subscription and advertising platform and a leading provider of local news and information, with daily newspapers, rapidly growing digital products and nearly 350 weekly and specialty publications serving 72 markets in 25 states. Our core commitment is to provide valuable, intensely local news and information to the communities we serve.

Lee Enterprises is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to attracting and retaining a workforce whose diversity reflects the communities we serve. Lee embraces change, and we recognize that we must create and maintain a culture of fervent inclusion. For more information about Lee, check us out at www.lee.net.

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you are excited about this role but do not meet 100% of the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply.

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