Managing Editor, Front Page, NBC News Digital

NBC News; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

NBC News Digital is seeking a Managing Editor to lead editorial operations and enhance the quality of content across platforms. This role involves strategic oversight of the front pages, ensuring compelling storytelling and effective audience engagement. The ideal candidate will have extensive newsroom experience and a passion for news.

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401(k)

Paid leave

Tuition reimbursement

Qualifications

• 10+ years as a newsroom editor, preferably leading a team.
• Excellent writing and editing skills.
• Deep knowledge of audience metrics.

Responsibilities

• Direct editorial publishing operations and oversee front pages.
• Evaluate and ensure quality of published work.
• Set strategy for audience engagement.

Skills

Writing

Editing

Audience metrics analysis

Team management

Job description

Managing Editor, Front Page, NBC News Digital

Managing Editor, Front Page, NBC News Digital

Company Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

Company Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.

Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('Versant') comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. The well-capitalized company will have significant scale as a pure-play set of assets anchored by leading news, sports and entertainment content. The spin-off is expected to be completed during 2025.

Job Description

NBC News Digital is seeking a newsroom leader to direct its editorial publishing operations and the “front pages,” so to speak, where our award-winning journalism appears.

This person will set the strategy and oversee the owned platforms, social, art and copy teams, and will be responsible for the planning and quality of work published on our megaphones: the NBCNews.com homepage, app and social accounts.

There are two main components of this role.

First is directing and setting the strategy for the look and feel of our “front pages.” Questions you might ask are: Is this story strong enough for top or second billing on our app? When should it run? Is the art compelling enough? What is the most accurate and compelling headline for the homepage? Is there an angle we are missing during a major news event that the “front page” needs?

Second is evaluating and ensuring the quality of the work on those “front pages.” As such, the person in this role must be an absolutely impeccable writer and editor, able to identify where copy can be improved and sometimes diving in and rewriting. This could include improving the mainbar on a major breaking news event, like a terrorist attack, or providing top edits on a news feature scheduled to run on the front page on Saturday morning, or helping bulletproof an enterprise piece.

The editor should be an audience metrics obsessive and seek to understand the NBC News Digital reader/viewer, able to quickly grasp performance numbers and distill them into actionable takeaways. The person needs to be an excellent manager, able to coach and career-develop team leads, senior editors and individual contributors on every desk they oversee. And they should be an excellent communicator and collaborator, able to work across digital and the broader broadcast organization.

This is an entrepreneurial role that will help set the voice and strategy for NBC News Digital. It will also involve experimenting with how to appeal to new audiences and make them habitual consumers of our journalism.

Most critically, the editor should be incredibly passionate about the news — well-read, curious, ambitious and always thinking about what will make NBC News stand out to our audience and attract new readers and viewers.

Qualifications

• 10+ years as a newsroom editor, preferably leading a team
• Excellent writing and editing skills, able to topread copy and make it sing
• A successful career as a newsroom manager, showing the ability to develop talent and shepherd their part of the business
• Deep knowledge of audience metrics and how to put them to work
• Ability to communicate clearly — with authority and also humility — across a wide variety of teams and stakeholders
• Exceptional news judgment, with an ability to see the bigger story or the story coming around the corner, and know what the NBC News audience will demand to see on the front pages
  
  

Desired Characteristics

• Strong eye for design and layout, ensuring visuals enhance the storytelling and engage the audience effectively.
• Skilled in communicating across teams, fostering collaboration, and aligning editorial and digital strategies.
• Always looking for new ways to engage audiences and willing to try fresh approaches to improve content.
  
  

Additional Requirements

• Hybrid: This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of four days per week.
  
  

This position is eligible for company-sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $175,000 — $210,000 (bonus and long-term incentive eligible.)

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [e-mail].

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management

• Industries

  Broadcast Media Production and Distribution, Entertainment Providers, and Media Production

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