City Editor, 608today

6AM is redefining how communities engage, communicate, connect, and experience their cities. We’re rapidly growing our digital products and expanding our team across current and future markets. We’re eager to find energetic, curious, and driven multimedia storytellers that can effectively create dynamic daily content about our ever-evolving cities. 6AM is for deadline-driven performers who thrive off an adaptable work environment and see the direct impact of their work. Join us as we build upon our growing network of cities, continuing our vision of establishing the most relevant modern local media brand.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

Your responsibilities as a City Editor include planning, writing, editing, and publishing the most relevant, engaging, and conversational daily content about Madison, WI. This includes producing and managing daily content for the newsletter, website, and social media, strategizing for audience growth, assisting in writing sponsored content relevant to your market, executing on engagement tactics, and more as assigned. You will be the expert in your market and will be seen as a local influencer. Passion for your local city, excellent news judgment, curiosity, and interest in innovative media is a must.

As a City Editor, you are encouraged to try new things, be a creative thinker, and be empowered to follow through with the ideas you bring to the table to best serve in helping readers be the most educated and engaged citizens of your city.

Brainstorm and deliver hyper-local, timely original content. The ability to identify and produce relevant content in a deadline-driven environment is a must.

Produce content primarily consisting of brief, daily lead stories that reflect breaking news while also creating and maintaining local features and city guides.

Curate news, lifestyle, and events-based content from local news outlets and social influencers. Plus, being able to summarize into short-form, original content for newsletter, web, and social media.

Be an expert in distilling the important points of a larger story so our readers can stay informed everyday through our unique curation model.

Discover exceptional content before it goes mainstream.

Have an unbiased approach to content creation. Our brand is objective. We inform our readers.

Deliver publish-ready, error-free content in a simple, conversational format.

Bring engagement into everything you do. You’ll be activating the audience through surveys, polls and questions, replying and following up with readers daily. We continually work to have a conversation with our readers.

Be the example of an informed and engaged citizen. Attend community events, be in the know when it comes to local news, and be a leader in civic development of your region.

Publicly represent the brand, as a role model of the company’s core values.

Be the community manager of the brand’s social channels. This includes curating reader photos for our Instagram feed, taking original photos and videos, replying to DMs, being the first to re-share breaking news, and more.

Assist in creating goodwill with partner brands, brainstorming creative ways to elevate partners on social media and in the newsletter.

Be a team player. Each member of our team has the same goal, and working together is integral to achieving it.

Be ready to hustle. In order to be relevant and responsive, you may work outside of typical working hours as you cover breaking news.

Act as our eyes and ears, always seeking out new media trends and technology to help us continue to innovate the business.

Own your content. Creating relevant, timely, and clean content for the newsletter, web, and social media, will set you up for success. You will be empowered to take ownership and should be proud to sign your name to the newsletter every day.