Race Cass & Communities (RCC) Senior Editor

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Chicago, IL
102K-125K
Senior level
Digital Media • News + Entertainment
The Role
Lead a team of reporters covering immigration, environment, race, and class through collaborative editorial efforts and enterprise journalism.
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About Chicago Public Media

Home to WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Public Media is the largest local non-profit news organization in the country. WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times serve more than 2 million people weekly across broadcast, print, and digital platforms. As a mission-driven organization, we aspire to become the essential and most trusted news source that Chicago turns to each day for understanding the people, events, and ideas that shape our community.

WBEZ is home to local and national news programming as well as a growing portfolio of popular podcasts. WBEZ serves the community with fact-based, objective news and information, and its award-winning journalists ask tough questions, dig deep for answers and expose truths that spark change and foster understanding. WBEZ is supported by more than 86,000 members, hundreds of corporate sponsors and major donors. In 2022, WBEZ received more than 20 awards for its journalism, including two prestigious National Edward R. Murrow Awards.

Chicago Sun-Times is Chicago’s oldest continuously published daily newspaper serving Chicago and is known for its hard-hitting investigative reporting, in-depth political coverage, timely behind-the-scenes sports analysis, and insightful entertainment and cultural coverage. Chicago Sun-Times is the winner of eight Pulitzer Prizes and countless other awards.  In recent years, the Sun-Times has focused on a digital transformation to deliver its news and content to a growing digital audience. Most recently, the Sun-Times dropped the paywall on suntimes.com to expand access to its journalism, and shifted to a community-funded digital membership program supported by voluntary member donations. 

Chicago Public Media believes independent journalism is essential to a well-functioning democracy and access to fact-based, objective news and information is a right of every citizen. We serve the public interest by creating diverse, compelling content that informs, inspires, and enriches. We connect diverse audiences and help them make a difference in the community, the region and the world.  And, we employ 300+ staff who want to belong to an organization that inspires, supports, and challenges them to do their best work.

For more information, please see the Chicago Public Media Annual Report.

Position Summary

We’re looking for a highly skilled audio editor with strong news judgement and keen story ideas to lead an enterprise desk of reporters covering beats including immigration, the environment as well as race and class. This leader also will work with reporters to develop digital stories and edit them, along with other editors. This editor will be part of a larger Urban Affairs enterprise reporting team, which is focused on timely, informative, provocative (and sometimes delightful) enterprise reporting.


General Responsibilities

  • Lead daily news and enterprise news coverage for a team of reporters across platforms, including broadcast, digital, social media and audience engagement.
  • Develop enterprise focus areas for the team, alongside assistant managing editor and reporters, as well as overseeing development of enterprise reporting plans for individual reporters
  • Work collaboratively with colleagues across the newsroom, including anchors, other editors, reporters, producers and others, to deliver distinctive coverage that helps define the public conversation, break news and move listeners and readers 
  • Help reporters and producers conceptualize stories, define distinct angles/approaches, and ensure their work is accurate, inspired, fair, and impactful 
  • Help conceptualize coverage plans for major breaking news events and special coverage on WBEZ 91.5
  • Collaborate with the newsroom leaders to build the workflows necessary to ensure WBEZ is responsive to daily news across platforms, while showcasing our distinctive enterprise journalism
  • Foster and contribute to a culture of continuous learning, development, experimentation and collaboration through effective feedback and coaching
  • Be versatile in problem solving and responsive to the evolving needs of the newsroom
  • Challenge, nourish and empower the journalists on staff, furthering a newsroom culture of collaboration, inclusivity and continued editorial excellence


Qualifications

  • At least five years of audio editing experience as a news editor
  • Outstanding news judgment and experience leading journalists to produce work of distinction and community impact 
  • Demonstrated passion for leading creative daily news and enterprise coverage 
  • Ability to conceptualize and edit news stories for content, accuracy, pacing, ideas, narrative and voice 
  • Excellent editing ability and demonstrated skill in working accurately and effectively under deadline pressure
  • Fluency and enthusiasm for multiplatform journalism, including digital coverage, visual storytelling, social media and podcasting 
  • Deep commitment to the highest standards of journalistic ethics and the mission of public media 
  • Ability to articulate your own ideas precisely and concisely – and to cultivate the strong ideas that come from other producers, editors and reporters 
  • Strong relationship builder and naturally collaborative leader; experience leading and inspiring diverse, inclusive teams to excellence 
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, verbal and written, with the ability to effectively collaborate across the organization
  • Knowledge of the Chicago region’s rich diversity of stories, sectors and communities is very helpful

 

Education

Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, humanities or related field.


Compensation

The expected pay range for this position is $102,000 to $125,000 per ANNUM.

Chicago Public Media provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the organization reasonably expects to pay for a position.  The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographical location, and external market pay for comparable jobs.


Working at Chicago Public Media

At Chicago Public Media, we care deeply about our employees as we know attracting, developing, and growing talent is key to our success and enhancing our impact.  

Our culture is one where collaboration, diversity of ideas, and innovation are encouraged.  We value colleagues who will enhance our culture by bringing new ideas, divergent experiences, and talents to our dynamic workplace.

At Chicago Public Media we believe dedication to a great workplace includes supporting our employees and their families. As a result, we provide a broad and generous benefits package for employees at hire and in the years to come.

Our benefits include a competitive salary and benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, vacation, holidays, life insurance, disability coverage, retirement savings, and a commuter benefits plan.
Chicago Public Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we actively seek and welcome people from all backgrounds, orientations, and life experiences to join our team.


The essential functions described above are not all-inclusive and are not intended to create any contractual or other legal commitment. Chicago Public Media may change the content or format of this job at any time in its sole and exclusive discretion without notice.

Top Skills

Audio Editing
Digital Journalism
Podcasting
Social Media
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The Company
Chicago, Illinois
45 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

We are Chicago’s NPR news station, one of the largest and most respected public media stations in the country. Our mission is at the heart of WBEZ Chicago. We fulfill our mission at WBEZ by serving as a cornerstone of the public conversation; as a central pillar of our civic community; and by reasserting ourselves as the heart of innovation within public media.
We amplify the public conversation by telling the stories that matter; stories that provoke thought, entertain, capture emotion and inspire action. We are a trusted source of news and information in the Chicago region. People turn to WBEZ for our high-quality, fact-based journalism; engaging, entertaining programs on 91.5FM; original podcasts; and digital content

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