Executive Editor

New Posted 21 July 2021 | Raleigh, North Carolina | The News & Observer

McClatchy is seeking a creative, collaborative news editor to lead one of America’s best state capital news organizations -- The News & Observer (N&O), in Raleigh, NC, and its sister site The Herald-Sun, in Durham, NC. As Executive Editor of The N&O, the person in this role will work with a talented team of journalists to reach an ever-growing and increasingly diverse audience of readers, viewers and listeners in the Triangle and across NC. The opportunity is to accelerate our digital transition, leveraging a storied brand and high-impact newsroom into a sustainable operation that produces accountability and investigative journalism, solutions-focused journalism, utility news and information, and breaking news that is first and best on the most important issues to our region and state. The successful candidate will be a talented news leader who can draw the best work from our reporters, editors and visual journalists and drive newsroom collaboration. This person must have experience in newsroom transformation, someone able to approach the role with fresh ideas on how to serve an audience that is diverse and dynamic.


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