Social Platforms Editor

The Philadelphia Inquirer is a public benefit corporation owned by the nonprofit Lenfest Institute for Journalism. Together, we're at the center of a critical mission to create a lasting future for ambitious, engaging, and useful local journalism. We're doing this, in part, by deepening our connection with the communities we serve. Our integrated digital and print platforms are the Philadelphia region's largest media network. We're passionate about building a sustainable model for indispensable local journalism, and we take pride in finding diverse, dynamic, and talented individuals to help push our team forward.

Social Platforms Editor

The Philadelphia Inquirer is looking for a creative and digitally-savvy journalist to join its Programming & Audience team, with a specific focus on increasing the reach of our journalism through social media platforms. The Programming & Audience team works on the distribution of The Inquirer's journalism and engagement initiatives with our community. The Social Platforms Editor will play a key role in getting our journalism in front of the largest possible audience and defining The Inquirer's tone and style on social media.

About Us

The Philadelphia Inquirer is a public benefit corporation owned by the nonprofit Lenfest Institute for Journalism. Together, we're at the center of a critical mission to create a lasting future for ambitious, engaging, and useful local journalism. We're doing this, in part, by deepening our connection with the communities we serve. Our integrated digital and print platforms are the Philadelphia region's largest media network. We're passionate about building a sustainable model for indispensable local journalism, and we take pride in finding diverse, dynamic, and talented individuals to help push our team forward.

What You'll Do

• Help oversee publishing for The Inquirer's social media accounts, writing, scheduling and producing content across platforms like Facebook,
  Twitter, Instagram, and others as needed.
• Maintain high levels of creativity, voice, and professionalism while sharing content across The Inquirer's social platforms.
• Develop a deep understanding of our social followers, especially their information wants and needs, to make sure interacting with our brand
  in social spaces is viewed as a valued experience.

• Maintain a high level of understanding of the ever-evolving social media landscape and help decide when our team should -
  and shouldn't - delve into new content distribution platforms.

• Contribute to the planning and execution of promotional rollouts for our most ambitious enterprise journalism and major projects.

• Help reporters and editors write effective headlines for social media.
• Work with our analytics department, along with reporters and editors, to examine and analyze the data behind our audience trends, with an
  emphasis on social media traffic and engagement.

* We know not everyone reading this will fit exactly what we've described. We encourage everyone to apply who shares our passion for indispensable journalism and our drive to create a sustainable business model to support it. As an equal opportunity employer, The Inquirer is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture, and we especially encourage members of underrepresented communities to submit an application, including women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and people with special needs*
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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