Responsibilities

• Attends local editorial meetings and serves as a bridge between broadcast and digital in the local newsroom
• Trains and coaches, a team of local digital journalists
• Excellent at writing engaging headlines that increase page views and packaging content that grows page views per visitor, video-on-demand metrics, and time on site
• Works with digital reporters, site producers, and distro producers to ensure a steady stream of interesting content is packaged in an interactive way and promoted in a way that generates interest
• Evaluates traffic trends to make decisions on both daily content and longer-term content development that will grow traffic
• Leads team members responsible for planning and implementing special coverage projects (severe weather, breaking news, elections, enterprise original digital content)
• Monitors major news websites, local and state news websites, blogs, and social media for breaking news and trending topics
• Promotes news content on social media
• Meets big KPIs, ensures the team is meeting their role-specific KPIs

Requirements

• 2 years of experience in digital content and journalism
• Capable of researching, interviewing, and writing original news articles
• Clever headline writer that gets readers to click
• Strong multi-tasking abilities
• Organized, technical problem solver and quick decision maker
• Knowledge of SEO best practices and AP Style
• Enjoys working in teams and has excellent interpersonal skills
• Ease with/ability to learn new technology independently and quickly
• Strong communicator
• Some schedule flexibility (nights, weekends)

Preferred

• Experience with OBS systems
• Photoshop experience is a plus
• HTML and CSS knowledge is a plus