Digital Editor

Postmedia Network Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading news media company in Canada is seeking a Digital Editor for the Toronto Sun. The role involves overseeing content presentation on the website, utilizing analytics to drive audience engagement, and editing news stories. The ideal candidate is an experienced journalist with strong digital skills and the ability to adapt to fast-paced news cycles. This position offers the opportunity to shape digital content strategies and work closely with a dynamic newsroom team.

Qualifications

• Experienced in daily newsroom digital journalism with fast-paced deadlines.
• Familiar with industry content standards and legal issues like libel.

Responsibilities

• Delve into analytics to drive newsroom digital audience needs.
• Edit news stories for digital platforms to enhance engagement.
• Generate ideas for digital content formats.

Skills

Digital Journalism

Communication

Analytics

SEO

Teamwork

Tools

Google Analytics

Parsley

Job description

The company:

Postmedia is a Canadian newsmedia company representing more than 130 brands across multiple print, online and mobile platforms. Award-winning journalists and innovative product development teams bring engaging content to millions of people every week whenever and wherever they want it. This exceptional content, reach and scope offers advertisers and marketers compelling solutions to effectively reach target audiences. We are always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our team.

The opportunity:

The Toronto Sun is seeking a Digital Editor to oversee the day-to-day presentation of content on its website, torontosun.com.The ideal candidate, working with a digital team and reporters in the field, is a skilled editor with a critical eye and digital vision for online readership growth. The Digital Editor will have a vast understanding of analytics and trends relative to a continuous news cycle. The Digital Editor is a wordsmith who is skilled at crafting SEO headlines and is unafraid of difficult conversations and getting others to pivot to meet digital needs. The Digital Editor must flexibly juggle assignments, editing and generating ideas for content to attract and keep readers returning to torontosun.com. The Digital Editor will report to the Editor-in-Chief and work closely with City Desk editors. Part-webmaster, part-editor, the Digital Editor requires outstanding organizational and leadership skills and demonstrates a deep understanding of news that matters most to torontosun.com readers. The ability to use digital tools to identify news needs and maximize ways to meet them is critical to the position, as is working closely with the day-side assistant news editor (digital) and the newsroom’s city desk.

The position is based in Toronto, working with a remote newsroom.

What you’ll do:

• Delve into analytics to help drive the newsroom to meet digital audience needs.
• Prepare regular reports using detailed analytics to ensure the website is hitting or exceeding performance targets.
• Edit news stories with a critical eye and enrich their linear presentation for our digital platforms, driving online engagement with our journalism.
• Attend meetings as required with editors to plan and discuss content and spot daily opportunities on your cycle for the newsroom to jump on in the next cycle.
• Generate ideas for digital content through formats including non-traditional explainers and live coverage files that meet readers where they are.
• Help, as needed, in guiding production of the newsroom’s regular reader newsletters.

Who you are (qualifications):

• An editor experienced in daily newsroom digital journalism with fast-paced deadlines, fluent in digital and social platforms.
• A skilled journalist and communicator, with the ability to quickly adapt to changing news needs and evolving situations requiring speed and flexibility.
• Not just a team player, but a playmaker able to spot and make wins happen.
• An editor familiar with industry content standards, including CP style, plus a working understanding of key legal issues such as the laws of libel and slander.
• Experience using Parsley and Google analytics.

We thank in advance all applicants for their interest, however only those candidates under consideration will be contacted. Only candidates legally eligible to work in Canada will be considered. No phone calls or agencies please.

Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in all areas of the hiring process. If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please make your needs known in advance. Accommodation requests will be provided on an individual basis.

Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to employment equity and an inclusive barrier-free selection process and work environment. Postmedia Network Inc. encourages applications from women, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.