Digital Editor – Hybrid: Breaking News & Visual Storytelling

Canadian Inclusion; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Job summary

The Globe and Mail is hiring a full-time Digital Editor to join our newsroom. This hybrid role focuses on editing homepages, publishing stories, writing mobile alerts, and growing our digital journalism across apps and web.

Ideal candidates are curious editors with strong news judgment who can identify story nuggets for engaging headlines while collaborating with reporters and editors across the newsroom. Based in Toronto, the role requires office presence two days a week.

Qualifications

• At least three years of experience in digital media.
• Solid news judgment.
• Strong headline writing and story editing skills.
• Familiarity with what makes a rich digital storytelling experience.
• Clear communicator and excellent multitasker.
• Ability to work shifts that include early mornings, nights or weekends.
• Comfortable working in digital content management systems, content planning tools, and other platforms.
• Business journalism experience is an asset.

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.
• Suggesting stories we should be covering.
• Looking for ways to experiment with how and when we reach audiences.

Skills

Digital media experience

News judgment

Headline writing

Story editing

Digital storytelling

Communication

Multitasking

Shift flexibility

CMS experience

Business journalism

Job description

The Globe and Mail is hiring a full-time Digital Editor to join our newsroom. This hybrid role focuses on editing homepages, publishing stories, writing mobile alerts, and growing our digital journalism across apps and web.

Ideal candidates are curious editors with strong news judgment who can identify story nuggets for engaging headlines while collaborating with reporters and editors across the newsroom. Based in Toronto, the role requires office presence two days a week.