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Milwaukee Neighborhood Information Service, an award-winning, hyperlocal nonprofit newsroom that covers Black and brown communities in Milwaukee, seeks a managing editor to take NNS to new heights in journalism and neighborhood engagement. It is a key function in a 14-year-old newsroom.
About Milwaukee NNS
Milwaukee Neighborhood Information Service, sometimes called NNS, is an formidable, collaborative and pioneering journalism enterprise that for 14 years has delivered fact-based reporting to communities of shade in Milwaukee. Housed within the Diederich School of Communication at Marquette College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, NNS is a division of Wisconsin Watch, a statewide newsroom that focuses on explanatory and accountability reporting.
The managing editor is essential for persevering with to drive NNS’ progress and affect. As NNS goals to raise its community-focused journalism and broaden its attain, a powerful editorial chief is required to make sure the supply of high-quality, impactful content material, improve workers improvement and help in setting strategic priorities and imaginative and prescient. This function will amplify NNS’ affect as an important useful resource for Milwaukee’s Black and brown communities.
Are you that particular person?
We’re in search of somebody who’s:
- Each a champion of fantastic journalism in addition to a champion of the individuals who produce the superb work. We search somebody with top-notch management abilities and impeccable information judgment.
- Dedicated to collaboration, appreciates variety and inclusion and has a ardour for teaching a proficient newsroom whereas juggling a number of initiatives.
- Snug working with neighborhood residents, college students, rising journalists and seasoned veterans to create tales that resonate with readers who typically are uncared for, underrepresented or misrepresented by different media shops.
- Dedicated to glorious neighborhood journalism and serving readers, has glorious interpersonal communication abilities, is attentive to particulars however can see the forest from the bushes.
- Captivated with our mission to color a whole portrait of our neighbors by deliberately celebrating the odd individuals who do extraordinary issues, connecting readers to the assets they should navigate their lives, serving as a ferocious watchdog on their behalf, and giving them a platform to voice their opinions on points.
At NNS, our staffers don’t parachute into our communities after which depart: We’re embedded in our neighborhoods, and we stay invested within the lives of our readers.
As we inform, we imagine we will rework by means of the ability of fact-based multimedia reporting. We’re in search of the one who can carry out the very best in our workers and who can assist us grow to be required studying for all these concerned with Milwaukee’s Black and brown communities.
On this function, you’ll:
- Edit tales, graphics and visuals to make sure they meet the excessive requirements of NNS for accuracy, readability and newsworthiness.
- Supervise reporters, photographers, interns and neighborhood volunteers.
- Lead editorial conferences; coach and collaborate with reporters to establish and prioritize key matters, tales and impactful cross-newsroom particular initiatives.
- Help in managing the newsroom, working collaboratively to craft methods that additional the group’s mission, together with manufacturing of environment friendly and well timed content material.
- Work carefully with our neighborhood engagement staff, which incorporates News414, our community-centered engagement initiative that makes use of textual content messages, social media, occasions and different instruments to take heed to after which present essential data to underserved audiences.
- In collaboration with the chief director, assist present strategic route and imaginative and prescient for the editorial staff in alignment with the group’s mission and targets.
- In collaboration with the viewers engagement supervisor, develop and execute content material methods which might be revelatory and interesting and help the nonprofit mission, with the purpose of getting our tales to a wider viewers.
- Coordinate common coaching classes to raise the abilities of workers.
- Characterize NNS at neighborhood occasions to construct and keep relationships with readers and supporters to make sure we keep embedded and related within the communities we serve.
- Collaborate with the enterprise staff to help grant functions and donor relations, as wanted.
Required abilities:
- 7+ years of journalism expertise, with expertise managing direct studies.
- Excellent enhancing, teaching, organizational and communication abilities.
- Demonstrated capacity to multitask and persistently work on deadlines.
- Expertise in WordPress or related content material administration methods.
- Self-starting, initiative-taking angle.
- Demonstrated expertise collaborating throughout and out of doors of a corporation.
- Curiosity and the pursuit of information are a vital a part of who you’re.
- Copy enhancing expertise, with experience in search engine optimization headlines and data of AP fashion.
Bonus abilities:
- Has expertise setting strategic priorities and imaginative and prescient, together with content material, that advance organizational mission.
- Fluent in Spanish.
We all know that there might be nice candidates who may not examine all these bins or who maintain essential abilities we haven’t listed. Don’t hesitate to use and inform us about your self. We particularly encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to use, together with individuals of shade, LGBTQ+ individuals, and other people with disabilities. We’re an equal-opportunity employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any form. All employment choices are made with out regard to race, shade, faith, intercourse, sexual orientation, nationwide origin, age, or another standing protected underneath relevant regulation.
Location: The managing editor ought to be positioned within the Milwaukee space.
Wage and advantages: The wage vary is $63,500-$80,000. Ultimate supply quantities will fastidiously take into account a number of elements, and better compensation could also be out there for somebody with superior abilities and/or expertise. NNS affords aggressive advantages, together with beneficiant trip (5 weeks), a retirement fund contribution, paid sick days, paid household and caregiver depart, sponsored medical and dental premiums, imaginative and prescient protection, and extra.
Deadline: Purposes might be accepted till the place is stuffed.
To use: Please submit a PDF of your resume and a canopy letter explaining why you’re the greatest candidate for this job and reply a short query within the utility kind. Should you’d like to talk in regards to the job earlier than making use of, contact Government Director Ron Smith at rsmith@milwaukeenns.org.
