Director of Content Syndication

Company: Newsweek

Location: New York City (Hybrid)

Position Overview

Newsweek is seeking a strategic and dynamic Director of Content Syndication to support and scale its content syndication and licensing operations. This hybrid role combines editorial leadership with partner-facing responsibilities, making it ideal for a candidate comfortable leading a team of reporters and identifying commercial content opportunities. The ideal candidate will be an experienced journalist looking to grow into a commercial-facing role.

As Director, you will oversee the editorial strategy across syndication platforms like Apple News, while assisting the VP of Strategic Partnerships in managing relationships with commercial partners and platforms. You will lead a team of platform-specific reporters, ensuring their work aligns with both editorial standards and strategic goals. You will identify and source story opportunities, assign work, and help shape coverage to meet the needs of diverse audiences and partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of reporters focused on coverage for specific platforms.
• Assign platform-optimized content, ensuring it meets quality standards and aligns with both partner and internal goals.
• Utilize audience insights and analytics to craft compelling and accurate headlines for all stories assigned.
• Collaborate with editors across the newsroom to surface and repurpose stories for distribution to external platforms.
• Work cross-functionally with audience, analytics, product, and legal teams to ensure optimal content delivery.
• Support VP of Strategic Partnerships in managing high-value content and licensing partnerships with platforms, syndication partners, aggregators, and other commercial entities.
• Track and report on performance metrics across partnerships and help identify new business opportunities.
• Identify editorial and partnership trends and proactively evolve strategy to stay ahead of industry changes.
• Perform any other reasonable duties to meet the needs of the business.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in journalism, content strategy, partnerships, or digital media.
• Proven experience managing editorial teams and sourcing/assigning content in a newsroom or digital publication environment, with a track record of engaging a large audience.
• Strong editorial judgment and an understanding of what drives platform-specific audience engagement.
• Excellent headline writing skills.
• Exceptional organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Understanding of audience analytics and how data can inform editorial decisions.
• Familiarity with licensing, syndication, or content distribution is a plus.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.

Salary Range

$90,000 - $100,000

Company Information

Newsweek is the global media organization that has earned audience time and trust for more than 90 years. Newsweek reaches 100 million people each month with thought-provoking news, opinion, images, graphics, and video delivered across a dozen print and digital platforms. Headquartered in New York City, Newsweek also publishes international editions in EMEA and Asia.

Newsweek is an equal opportunity employer. We seek employees of diverse backgrounds and are committed to providing an inclusive, equitable and respectful workplace.