Editor-in-Chief

Denison Ministries; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Denison Ministries in the United States is seeking an Editor-in-Chief to guide its news and cultural engagement during a pivotal season. This is a builder opportunity to shape editorial vision, set coverage priorities, recruit voices, and expand Denison Ministries' reach and impact.

The ideal candidate brings 10+ years in journalism and editorial leadership, 5+ years in senior roles, proven leadership of high-performing teams, strong ethics, and a biblical-theological grounding to thoughtfully

Qualifications

• 10+ years journalism/editing experience with major outlets.
• 5+ years senior editorial leadership.
• Strong ethics and accuracy.
• Proven ability to recruit and mentor contributors.
• Experience growing content across digital platforms.

Responsibilities

• Set and execute editorial vision and strategy.
• Lead and develop a high-performing editorial team.
• Identify, recruit, and develop journalists, writers, theologians, hosts, and contributors.
• Drive editorial innovation across newsletters, podcasts, video, social content, and emerging formats.
• Build newsroom processes and standards for quality, accuracy, and theological faithfulness.
• Establish strong sourcing, fact-checking, ethics standards.
• Partner with executive leadership, marketing, and digital teams to grow the ministry's reach and influence.

Skills

Editorial leadership

Journalism

Recruiting

Ethics

Strategic planning

Digital media

Job description

Denison Ministries is seeking an Editor-in-Chief to lead its news and cultural engagement efforts during a pivotal time in the life of the ministry.

Denison Ministries is a Christian media and discipleship organization that equips followers of Jesus Christ with biblical truth, empowering them to think critically, live faithfully, and serve intentionally. Across its family of ministries, the organization generates more than 100 million content experiences annually.

As Denison Ministries enters its next chapter, this leader will have the opportunity to help shape a growing, multi-voice approach to helping Christians engage current events and culture with clarity, wisdom, and hope.

This is more than a traditional Editor-in-Chief role. It is a builder opportunity. This leader will help shape editorial vision, determine coverage priorities, develop new content offerings, recruit influential voices, and build the team and systems necessary to expand Denison Ministries' reach and impact.

What You’ll Lead

• Set and execute the editorial vision and strategy for Denison Ministries' news and cultural content.
• Lead and develop a high-performing, collaborative, Christ-centered editorial team.
• Identify, recruit, and develop exceptional journalists, writers, theologians, subject-matter experts, hosts, and contributors.
• Drive editorial innovation across newsletters, podcasts, video, social content, and emerging digital formats.
• Build newsroom processes and standards that increase content output while protecting quality, accuracy, and theological faithfulness.
• Establish strong standards for sourcing, fact-checking, ethics, and journalistic integrity.
• Partner with executive leadership, marketing, and digital teams to grow the ministry's reach and influence.

Who We’re Looking For

The ideal candidate combines journalistic credibility, strong biblical and theological grounding, and entrepreneurial leadership.

Candidates should bring:

• A strong personal commitment to Jesus Christ and alignment with Denison Ministries' statement of faith and mission.
• 10+ years of journalism and editorial experience, including significant news media experience.
• 5+ years of senior editorial leadership.
• Experience leading high-performing editorial teams and building scalable processes.
• Exceptional news judgment and a strong understanding of journalistic ethics, sourcing, and accuracy.
• Experience growing content across multiple digital platforms.
• Strong biblical and theological grounding with the ability to thoughtfully engage news and culture.
• The ability to identify, recruit, and develop credible contributors and influential voices.
• A leadership style marked by humility, conviction, compassion, civility, clarity, and courage.

Denison Ministries is looking for someone who is passionate about news and culture while resisting sensationalism, outrage, fear-based messaging, and strongly partisan framing