Afternoon Editor (Daily News)

We are seeking an assignment editor who can carry our news day into the evening and help drive our news report across platforms. They will work closely with the morning editor and other managers and staff to determine the stories that we are covering each day on LAist.com and across our radio and on-demand platforms. This person is eager to help reinvent the scope of our daily news report and make it truly cross-platform. That means delivering top headlines with creativity and thinking beyond the basics — and also holding firm on what we aren’t going to do. They will work with a dedicated team of journalists, have a passion for daily news, share our commitment to deliver innovative and insightful storytelling, have strong news judgment and the ability to lead and bring out the best in people.

Our newsroom is known as a leader in engaged journalism, an approach that prioritizes listening to our community members and framing stories to meet their information needs. This extends into our daily reporting and this editor will be expected to understand and embrace this approach.

The Afternoon Editor, Daily News will share in a major component of our newsroom strategy: growing our audience across platforms with dynamic daily news reporting.