Editor

Boulder Reporting Lab (BRL) is seeking a newsroom editor to help grow our editorial team and raise the level of impact at a critical and thrilling time for our new nonprofit newsroom. The editor will help shape and shepherd a creative editorial vision as our team approaches its first anniversary of publishing.  Since our launch in November 2021, BRL has built an engaged and growing readership through high-quality community journalism and a unique distribution model. There are many more people in our community we want to reach, however. The ideal candidate will have innovative ideas to help us do that and be attuned to the trends in startup local journalism. You will sharpen and expand our coverage based on engagement with residents, community leaders and others. You will help steward existing journalism collaborations and foster new ones. You will expand our network of freelance contributors. You will work with the publisher to develop new capacities for breaking news and other editorial content that community members are asking for. You will contribute reporting and writing. This is a vital position for our three-person startup newsroom that will require passion for local journalism and belief in its power to transform communities. And while this role is focused on editorial, every position on our small team is involved with building a sustainable newsroom that meets Boulder’s information needs. That aspect of the job – of creating something new and lasting for (and with) our community – is important and must excite you.