Senior Business Editor

This is a Full Time Job

Location: London, London, City of, United Kingdom

CNN is seeking a Senior Business Editor to join its EMEA headquarters in London and take a leading role in helping to shape the world's biggest and most important stories at the intersection of business, economy and current affairs.

This is a role for an ambitious and creative digital-first business journalist with outstanding news judgment, excellent communication skills, and a passion for breaking news and distinctive enterprise reporting that differentiates CNN in a competitive market.

Role Accountabilities
• Leading the business news agenda during EMEA hours and overseeing editorial in all formats and on all of CNN's platforms, with a focus on business, markets, tech, media and economy coverage, as well as an eye for emerging regional trends
• Setting up the morning for CNN's US audience, advancing overnight stories and ensuring that the essential Business content greets US readers and subscribers as they wake up
• Commissioning, framing, editing and writing editorial content for all of CNN's platforms, including breaking news, analysis and distinctive enterprise journalism; working across formats including digital text, video and visuals
• Working closely with correspondents, editors and stakeholders across the world on multi-region and multi-platform projects
• Ensuring all journalism produced adheres to CNN standards and integrity
• Managing at least one business reporter on the EMEA newsdesk
• Working as part of a global 24/7 digital-first cross-platform team, providing a key editorial link between CNN's APAC and US operations
• Working occasional weekends and evenings

Qualifications & Experience
• A minimum of 8 years of business news editing and/or writing experience for leading digital-first news outlets, with a proven track record in high-pressure, breaking news environments
• Superior news judgment with the ability to think in headlines and frame complex business stories for a global audience, specifically the US morning market
• Experience conceiving and producing distinctive enterprise journalism, identifying unique reporting opportunities and/or investigative works
• Enthusiasm, flexibility and a desire to foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment
• Exceptional writing skills, editing skills, news judgment and an obsession with precision
• A strong desire to experiment with storytelling formats and think creatively about how we serve our multiplatform audience
• Exceptional planning and organizational skills with a demonstrable track record of
• executing detailed digital-first coverage plans
• Perfect grasp of written and spoken English

Hybrid Working - This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in-office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.