News Editor

Bisnow; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401K

Flexible Spending Account

Health Savings Account

Dependent Care Account

Unlimited Vacation Days

Sick leave

9 paid Holidays

Referral Bonus Program

Pet Friendly Offices

Job summary

Bisnow, the leading BISNOW editorial team in Chicago, seeks a seasoned Editor to lead, report, and expand our commercial real estate news operations. You will guide coverage across major markets, manage reporters and freelancers, and ensure top-quality storytelling for Bisnow.com and our newsletters.

The role requires five+ years on an editorial team, strong newsroom instincts, and experience with CMS, daily pace, and SEO best practices.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience on an editorial team, including experience managing a team of reporters.
• Experience in daily news pace and volume.
• Ideally experience in business-to-business reporting; CRE reporting a major plus.
• Clear, friendly, hyper-organized, goals-based management style.
• Skilled, thorough storytelling with high editorial standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide editorial planning and hands-on execution for day-to-day coverage of Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Chicago, long-term packages and special projects for Bisnow.com and its newsletters.
• Manage a team of full-time reporters and freelancers, including organization and professional growth.
• Assign articles and line edit online articles, newsletters and morning briefs.

Skills

Editorial leadership

Editing

Team management

News judgment

SEO knowledge

CMS experience

B2B journalism

Storytelling

Tools

Content management systems

Job description

BISNOW OVERVIEW

Bisnow is the commercial real estate industry's leading, vertically integrated B2B media platform, covering North America, Canada, the UK and Ireland. We serve the CRE industry through award-winning news and publications, renowned events, wide-ranging marketing services, specialized recruitment solutions, and intelligent sales enablement tools.

With 1.7M+ subscribers and 400+ events annually across 47 markets in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands, we don't just cover the industry, we help move it forward.

We inform. We connect. We create opportunities that turn into deals. Global mindset. Hyper-local execution.

Bisnow is seeking a seasoned, razor-sharp Editor to help lead, report, and build our growing commercial real estate news operations. We're in the business of delivering intelligence at the intersection of international commercial real estate and politics, sports, entertainment, business, technology, and beyond. We need a thorough editor with a deep passion for the news who can help us continue to expand our ambitions.

Location: Ideally based in Central Time Zone — office or remote both work.

• Provide editorial planning and hands-on execution for day-to-day coverage of Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Chicago, long-term packages and special projects for Bisnow.com and our large stable of newsletters.
• Manage a team of full-time reporters and freelancers, including organization and professional growth.
• Assign articles and line edit online articles, newsletters and morning briefs.
• Minimum 5 years of experience working on an editorial team, including experience managing a team of reporters.
• Experience in daily news pace and volume.
• Ideally, experience in business-to-business reporting; experience in commercial real estate reporting a major plus.
• Clear, friendly, hyper-organized, goals-based management style.
• Demonstrated experience as a skilled, thorough and conscientious storyteller.
• Experience editing and recruiting high-caliber writers and editors.
• An eye for quality journalism, as well as stories with viral/share potential.
• Excellent news judgment.
• Deep familiarity with the competitive set in the CRE news space in Texas and Chicago.
• Extensive experience working in content management systems.
• Basic SEO knowledge.
• Competitive compensation structure!
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance - effective the 1st of the month following your start date.
• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance - this includes maternity and paternity leaves as well.
• 401K
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Dependent Care Account
• Unlimited Vacation Days
• 7 days paid sick leave
• 9 paid Holidays
• Referral Bonus Program
• Pet Friendly Offices
• You’ll get to work with incredibly smart, passionate, driven, ambitious, kind, caring and mindful people and will rarely experience an overload of policies, bureaucracy or toxicity (the latter, we do not tolerate).

Get To Know Our Teams! < Click here for more info about Bisnow, Biscred & SelectLeaders!

Before applying, please read our values below. Our values describe and give insight into our culture. If you do not share the same values, this role will not be a mutually beneficial fit. If you do share these values and want to apply, we encourage you to do so.

Our values demand that we be curious, self-aware, fearless, consistent. We say yes to seemingly insurmountable challenges because we dare ourselves to push further. And we go the distance because we are individually and collectively entrepreneurial, always asking: Why can’t it be done? We find a way because we care more than the competition. We embrace team and disown ego. We are ruthlessly disciplined and unabashedly kind. We unreservedly challenge the status quo and vigorously fight for new levels of excellence. We believe the difference between good and great is exceptional communication. We obsess over creating value for our team and our customers. We push ourselves and our industry to be more inclusive, to champion diversity and to fight racism, gender bias and all forms of inequality. We never peak. We never quit. We never have excuses. We own our failures and we commit to being smarter and stronger because of them. We give our best today and even better tomorrow. We are here to win.