Business Editor

OVERVIEW

Application deadline and instructions:
• Please complete and submit your application by 11:59 pm EST on Monday, December 7th, 2026
• Please submit your resume and cover letter. In your cover letter please share your philosophy for leading a Business desk and what you envision the top focus areas should be for the desk in 2027.

Responsibilities
• Leads NPR’s business coverage through a combination of distinctive stories, daily news, enterprise and scoops
• Identifies and sharpens areas of coverage across broadcast and digital platforms
• Supervises assignments and provides editorial guidance to staff, station and freelance reporters, and production staff
• Works across the newsroom to determine the best approaches to stories, subjects to be discussed and treated, and individuals to be interviewed
• Tracks station, freelance and staff submissions and assignments.
• Ensures that speculative submissions from stations and freelancers are auditioned to determine suitability for airing.
• Regularly has critical discussions about pieces with reporters and editors, and with the Executive Editor, as appropriate.
• Makes hiring and salary recommendations for staff members under his or her supervision, in consultation with the Executive Editor.
• Responsible for preparing performance reviews for assigned staff members.
• Assists in planning and monitoring the business unit’s annual budgets and in monitoring current spending.
• Coordinates business unit staff schedules, submits and approves time sheets and maintains other personnel records as needed.
• Responsible for tracking overtime and travel expenditures.
• Ensures that all material aired and published meets the highest journalistic standards and practices, including standards of accuracy, fairness and probity.

The above duties and responsibilities are not an exhaustive list of required responsibilities, duties and skills. Other duties may be assigned, and this job description can be modified at any time.

Minimum Qualifications
• A minimum of 15 years’ experience as a news reporter or editor, including demonstrated experience covering business and economics
• Demonstrated experience overseeing editorial output for social media and digital platforms
• Demonstrated collaborative approach to newsgathering and story presentation across platforms
• Considerable skill in both news and feature editing

Preferred Qualifications
• Broadcast and specifically radio news experience
• Familiarity with the NPR member station network

Required Skills / Competencies
• Previous managerial experience

Education Requirements
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience

Work Location & Requirements
• Hybrid Permitted: This is a hybrid permitted role. Some aspects of this role require duties better performed at an NPR facility. The employee will be required to be in the office at the Washington, D.C., New York City, or Culver City location at least 3 days a week.

Job Type
• This is a full-time, exempt position.

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