Weekly Newspaper Editor

This is a Full Time Job

Weekly Editor

Hearst Connecticut Media Group's team of nearly 200 journalists covers communities in Fairfield and New Haven Counties and beyond, serving readers across platforms, including our sites, newsletters, social media accounts and more for eight daily and 14 weekly newspapers.

We're looking for an enterprising, audience-focused and collaborative Weekly Editor to lead the Fairfield Citizen at a time when the organization is growing digital subscriptions.

This editor would be responsible for creating a robust online news report each day and a weekly newspaper that covers the community of Fairfield, located on the Long Island Sound with beautiful beaches, strong schools and several parks and other recreational facilities.

Duties and responsibilities:

Works collaboratively with editors, other reporters, photographers and audience team members to tell impactful stories across platforms that engage and retain local subscribers and other readers

Reports, writes and edits quickly and effectively to break news online and follows up by conceiving of and developing more in-depth enterprise pieces

Demonstrates a comfort level with analyzing and interpreting metrics and uses them to inform coverage decisions in real-time and the long-term

Conceptualize and assign stories aimed at growing digital subscriptions, guiding staffers through the reporting process and editing their work with excellent command of grammar, usage and AP style

Works with designers and photographers to produce pages for the weekly newspaper

Qualifications:

Demonstrated experience managing newsroom personnel and producing high-quality breaking news and enterprise journalism across digital and print platforms

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in journalism, English, communications or related field preferred

Demonstrated success working in a deadline-driven environment

Highly organized and detail-oriented with a proven ability to effectively juggle multiple tasks

Ability to speak a second language like Spanish a plus

Some great candidates may not check all the boxes in a job
description. If you're a passionate, dedicated candidate who's interested in
Hearst Connecticut Media Group but don't have all the skills listed here, reach
out anyway and tell us more about what you bring to the table.

HCMG is committed to growing and retaining a more diverse
workforce that better reflects the communities we serve. We strongly encourage
those who are traditionally underrepresented in media to apply, including
women, people of color, people with disabilities, people from the LGBTQ
community and veterans.