Day Editor, News Digital
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About The Role
This role will lead News Digital’s daily editorial team and drive the editorial agenda, providing coverage that is original, innovative, and timely. You will play a significant role in the strategic development of News Digital to ensure all coverage needs are met. You will commission, publish and edit News content to deliver timely, accurate and relevant online coverage to meet audience needs. At the broad direction of the Managing Editor you will set goals for staff and monitor and review performance, effectively lead, mentor, coach and develop a team to enhance output and improve skills.
The Role Will Also Include
Ensuring the News digital home page and other specialist genre pages showcase the best of ABC news coverage, including headlines, audio-visual elements, and specialist content.
Monitoring daily News events, identify story opportunities, and deploy resources to provide ABC audiences the highest quality digital news coverage and attract new audiences to the brand. Act quickly and decisively to deploy resources to respond to News events as they happen, ensuring the best content gathered by News Journalists appears online.
Responding quickly to system outages, editorial issues and distribution problems and restore/resolve/arrange corrective action with minimal delays.
Building and maintaining effective working relationships with all relevant stakeholders within News and across the ABC. Work with stakeholders on projects of mutual interest, for example, elections.
About You
We are seeking an outstanding Editor with senior experience as an Online Journalist who has played a leading role in driving the editorial agenda and managing a team. You will have comprehensive knowledge of digital news production, including producing and commissioning visual journalism, graphics and interactive features, mobile-first newsgathering, social platforms, and hands-on experience with content management systems. You will also have excellent leadership and communication skills with a proven ability to manage, inspire and develop staff to achieve high levels of performance and output in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
You Will Also Bring
Demonstrated ability to show incisive judgement of news events and issues and ability to act decisively to cover them in industry-leading and creative ways.
Highly advanced skills as an influencer, to collaborate with a wide-range of teams and ensure the needs of News Digital are met when significant news stories - both breaking and planned - arise.
Demonstrated superior understanding of online as a medium, methods of content distribution and engagement, including experience in interpreting audience data and the trends in audience behaviour.
A demonstrated and ongoing interest and passion in finding and telling stories that reflect Australia’s diversity and reach new audiences
For further information on this position please contact Stefanie Garber, Day Editor, News Digital on garber.stefanie@abc.net.au