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The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the University's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.
Position Summary
Reporting to Editor in Chief, the Senior Editor shares responsibility for all coverage in the Columbia Journalism Review.
The Senior Editor will be an active thought partner at CJR, across the digital magazine, newsletter, and podcast. Our audiences include journalists, educators, policy makers, and anyone who cares about the role of the press in upholding democracy.
The Senior Editor has several key responsibilities, chief among them to conceive, assign, and edit coverage of journalism-related news and feature stories.
Among this editor?s key tasks will be generating story ideas, as well as quickly evaluating pitches and shaping them into relevant and thought-provoking stories for our website. This person must excel at coaching writers at the pitch stage and working closely with them throughout the editing process to produce timely and engaging off-the-news pieces, idea-driven essays, and deeply reported magazine stories. The Senior Editor will also work to present these stories to our readers, including visual elements and multimedia; will become familiar with our online publishing system; and coordinate on art, audio, and video production, fact-checking, social media outreach, and other tasks as needed. The Senior Editor will be directly involved in the production of our newsletters and help oversee our biweekly podcast, The Kicker.
The Senior Editor will help to recruit and retain talented contributors who represent diverse views and bring a variety of voices and experiences to our media coverage. This editor will also help supervise the three Delacorte Fellows, who work from September to May, and are graduates of the Columbia Journalism School.
Responsibilities
Facilitate CJR?s day-to-day coverage. Edit stories for the site and the daily newsletter.
Develop and manage content strategy designed to advance CJR?s visibility and impact as a leading forum for news about the media, media criticism, First Amendment reporting, changing media business models, AI, news influencers, international journalism, ethics, and related topics.
Develop innovative outreach and engagement strategies for CJR and contribute to the conception and execution of a range of projects, including newsletters, podcasts, events, and partnerships with the school?s centers.
Generate story ideas and match them with staff members or talented freelancers.
Create new features and content that will resonate with readers, advertisers, and other financial partners.
Maintain the highest ethical and publishing standards. Check facts, secure comments from sources as needed. Develop, meet, and enforce critical deadlines and procedures.
Recruit new writers and build a dynamic, talented pool of regular contributors to CJR.
Represent CJR on media broadcasts and within the Journalism School, helping to build the magazine?s brand and forge connections with others in the field, as needed.
Supervise the work of three fellows to ensure that standards and quality are kept at consistently high levels, by communicating of job and productivity expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results. Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees.
Performs other related duties as needed.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor?s degree.
Minimum of 4-6 years of journalism experience.
The Senior Editor should have:
Excellent news judgment and an insatiable interest in journalism and the news industry.
A commitment to explaining (and defending) journalism at a time of economic and political turmoil, technological transformation, and growing threats to journalists.
A demonstrated ability to deliver quick, clean copy and help early-career professionals develop their skills.
An empathetic collaborator who knows how to pursue great impact from a small team.
Preferred Qualifications
Previous management experience is preferred.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran
Columbia University is committed to the hiring of qualified local residents.
Columbia University is one of the world's most important centers of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields. The University recognizes the importance of its location in New York City and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis. It seeks to attract a diverse and international faculty and student body, to support research and teaching on global issues, and to create academic relationships with many countries and regions. It expects all areas of the university to advance knowledge and learning at the highest level and to convey the products of its efforts to the world.