Digital Editor (Editorial)

The Globe and Mail; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Globe and Mail is hiring a full-time digital editor to join our newsroom. We aim to deliver essential and engaging coverage across our digital platforms for Canadians.

Ideal candidates have strong news judgment, adaptability, and collaboration skills to lead homepage coverage, edit stories, and craft compelling headlines. You will work with editors and reporters to create a rich digital experience on our app and website.

Qualifications

• Must have solid news judgment and curiosity.
• Experience editing and publishing multiple story types.
• Proficiency with SEO-friendly headlines and display copy.
• Ability to publish across app and web platforms.
• Strong collaboration with editors and reporters.

Responsibilities

• Ensure fast, accurate coverage of breaking news and major stories for subscribers.
• Select stories and visuals for homepage prominence.
• Copy edit and publish staff and wire stories across sections.
• Write SEO-friendly headlines, decks, captions, and display copy.
• Publish with a visual approach to photos, graphics, and video.
• Write mobile push alerts and curate newsletters.
• Use analytics to spot opportunities and inform decisions.

Skills

News judgment

Copy editing

SEO

Digital publishing

Attention to detail

Team collaboration

Tools

CMS

Job description

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Globe and Mail is hiring a full-time digital editor to join our newsroom. As Canada's leading news organization, we are constantly evolving how we tell stories and connect with audiences across our digital platforms. In a crowded and chaotic news environment, we have to work harder than ever to deliver coverage that is both essential and engaging to Canadians.

We are looking for curious editors with solid news judgement to run our homepages, edit and publish stories, write mobile alerts, curate newsletters, and grow their aspirations alongside ours.

Ideal candidates are avid news consumers who read/watch/listen widely and deeply. Digital editors are adaptable and collaborative, with a knack for identifying the nuggets of a story that make great headlines. In this role, you will work with editors and reporters from across the newsroom in creating a rich digital news experience on our app and mobile platforms. Your decisions will be guided by expertise and instinct, as well as a deep familiarity with the stories and topics that resonate with Globe subscribers.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensuring we are fast and best on breaking news stories and the stories that matter most to subscribers
• Choosing stories and visuals that will appear at the top of our app and website homepages
• Copy editing and publishing a range of staff and wire stories, from news and business to longform features
• Writing SEO-friendly, engaging headlines, decks, captions and other display copy
• Publishing stories with a visual eye for the best photos, graphics and videos to showcase our journalism
• Writing mobile push alerts and curating newsletters
• Using audience analytics to spot opportunities and inform decisions