Editor In Chief

acbjcareers; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Albany Business Journal is seeking an Editor‑in‑Chief to shape the content vision across print, digital, and events. The EIC will define look, voice, and strategy for the weekly newspaper, emails, website, and forthcoming tablet/mobile formats.

The role demands strong leadership to guide reporters, grow audiences, and collaborate with peers across departments, while driving innovation in a rapidly evolving media landscape.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of management and/or team leadership experience.
• Daily, and preferably, weekly print experience for a business news operation.
• Experience working in an online news environment.
• Beat reporter experience.
• Inspiring, diplomatic, innovative and collaborative.

Responsibilities

• Create content and product vision for all media, including print, digital and events.
• Drive staff adaptation to new platforms and formats.
• Develop and lead reporting teams to deliver engaging journalism.
• Grow print, digital and event audiences through cross‑department collaboration.
• Maintain vitality of print with thoughtful packaging and long‑form journalism.
• Work with department heads to create business and marketing plans.
• Pursue content syndication channels and partnerships.
• Serve as primary newsroom conduit between local market and corporate.
• Meet audience engagement goals like page views and subscriptions.
• Attend Business Journal events and represent the newsroom.
• Take on other assignments as directed by management.
• Collaborate professionally with sources and colleagues.

Skills

Leadership

Team leadership

Audience engagement

Innovation

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Duties and Responsibilities, work schedules and/or location may change based on evolving business needs

• Create content and product vision. The EIC must define a clear and compelling vision for the look, feel and voice of our portfolio of products, including the existing weekly print newspaper, daily emails, website and, soon, tablet and mobile.
• Change agent. Must drive staff adaptation to new mediums, new platforms, new skill sets, new story forms, new ways of doing things. Persuasively, diplomatically, strategically, the EIC must guide the business journal operation into new markets, new competencies, and new areas of opportunity.
• Newsroom leader. It is paramount that the EIC take a proactive, hands‑on approach in developing and leading the reporting staff. Our ability to produce products that connect with our audiences stems directly from the EIC's interaction with, and direction of, the reporting team.
• Audience. The Office of the Editor and, by extension, the EIC, shares cross-departmental responsibility for growing our print, digital and event audiences. This demands a tight relationship with our audience through blogging and Editor's Notebooks.
• Ensure vitality of print through thoughtful packaging, long‑form journalism, exclusive interviews.
• Management. Work with other department heads, create business and marketing plans for the company.
• Seek out content syndication channels and partnerships for Business Journal content.
• National editorial and News Initiatives - EIC will be the primary newsroom conduit between the local market and ACBJ-corporate.
• Meet or exceed goals relating to audience-engagement such as page views, unique users, repeat visits, direct traffic, social media followings and growth, paid print subscribership, email newsletter circulation growth, event attendance, and other such measures.
• Regularly participate in and attend Business Journal sponsored events.
• Take on any other assignment made by manager(s).
• Work cooperatively and collaboratively with all colleagues and professionally with sources.

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

• Minimum of 5 -- 7 years of management and/or team leadership experience required
• Daily, and preferably, weekly print experience for a business news operation
• Experience working in an online news environment
• Beat reporter experience
• Inspiring, yet diplomatic
• Innovative, curious, collaborative
• Eager to connect directly with readers/audience
• Must be comfortable and thrive in rapidly changing and uncharted media environment