Newsroom Lead

Business Wire; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading communication firm seeks a Newsroom Lead to manage operations and a dedicated team in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will leverage their leadership and communication skills to enhance newsroom performance, prioritize tasks efficiently, and ensure quality control on press distributions. If you excel in multitasking and thrive under pressure, this role offers an opportunity to lead and innovate within a dynamic newsroom setting.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with all aspects of the Newsroom Editor role.
• Training and/or manager experience preferred.
• Strong organizational, time management, and multi-tasking skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage newsroom operations team and ensure tasks are completed effectively.
• Serve as main point of contact for high-profile projects.
• Evaluate day-to-day performance of newsroom staff.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Organizational Skills

Time Management

Problem-Solving

Education

Experience as a Newsroom Editor or related field

Tools

Workday

SharePoint

Job description

The primary duty of a Business Wire Newsroom Lead is demonstrating effective communication and leadership skills while managing a newsroom operations team, in addition to performing general editorial duties.

Monday-Friday 8:00 am EST – 4:30 pm EST

What You Will Do

• Assume full responsibility for a team, ensuring all tasks are completed accurately and efficiently including regular sweeps to make sure no items are pending and fall through the cracks, such as emails, messages or monitoring tasks; assigning press releases and completing quality checks on orders
• Serve as a main point of contact in the handling of high-profile projects
• Prioritize work load in the newsroom to ensure that high-profile and/or high-priority projects take precedence
• Anticipate and identify problems, and take appropriate action to bring about resolution
• Serve as a liaison to operations and sales managers, keeping them informed of client concerns or problems when necessary
• Assist newsroom personnel with the handling of complex or unusual news-release and/or client situations, including offering guidance in regard to the proper escalation and handling of problematic copy or working with sensitive clients
• Demonstrate effective leadership; lead by example and ensure that newsroom staff meets expectations set by management
• Effectively evaluate the day-to-day performance of direct reports; make sure they follow standard operating procedures.
• Coordinate recruiting, onboarding and training of new editors; oversee ongoing training of experienced editors as needed
• Directly manage team members and handle people management tasks, including but not limited to: Managing Time and PTO requests in Workday, goal setting and tracking, writing and conducting annual Performance Reviews, team scheduling, overseeing team and individual motivation and discipline
• Communicate with fellow team leads in order to stay informed on current pending releases, issues, etc.
• Participate in monthly operations meetings, or review materials and recordings if unable to attend, and ensure necessary information is relayed to direct reports
• Conduct regular team and 1:1 meetings with direct reports
• Compile designated monthly reports
• Create, update and maintain various team-specific documents on SharePoint
• Provide help with testing and proofing resource documentation as requested
• Be a lead member and participant of the Content Approval Team, helping to approve first release drafts for new clients and helping editors navigate through questionable copy situations
• Handle all essential duties of Newsroom Editor, as needed

What You Will Need

• Proven experience with all aspects of the Newsroom Editor role. This includes handling VIP clients, prioritizing workload and accurately distributing press releases with complicated distributions and formats.
• Previous training and/or manager experience preferred
• Strong organizational, time management and multi-tasking skills
• Ability to work under time constraints and deadlines
• Excellent and adaptive verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to prioritize time to maximize the greatest overall return on effort spent and probe for sufficient information to determine the significance and urgency of a specific task and devoting the appropriate amount of time to any given task based upon its relative impact on the successful completion of key job objectives.