Newsroom Lead

Business Wire Newsroom Lead

Employment Type: Full Time Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00 am EST – 4:30 pm EST

Position Overview

The Business Wire Newsroom Lead is responsible for demonstrating effective communication and leadership skills while managing a newsroom operations team. This role also involves performing general editorial duties.

Responsibilities

• Assume full responsibility for a team, ensuring all tasks are completed accurately and efficiently.
  • Perform regular sweeps to ensure no items are pending (emails, messages, monitoring tasks).
  • Assign press releases and complete quality checks on orders.
• Serve as a main point of contact for handling high-profile projects.
• Prioritize workload in the newsroom to ensure high-profile and/or high-priority projects take precedence.
• Anticipate and identify problems, and take appropriate action to resolve them.
• Serve as a liaison to operations and sales managers, keeping them informed of client concerns or problems.
• Assist newsroom personnel with complex or unusual news-release and/or client situations.
  • Offer guidance on proper escalation and handling of problematic copy.
  • Work with sensitive clients.
• Demonstrate effective leadership by leading by example and ensuring newsroom staff meets management expectations.
• Effectively evaluate the day-to-day performance of direct reports and ensure adherence to standard operating procedures.
• Coordinate recruiting, onboarding, and training of new editors.
• Oversee ongoing training of experienced editors as needed.
• Directly manage team members and handle people management tasks, including:
  • Managing Time and PTO requests in Workday.
  • Goal setting and tracking.
  • Writing and conducting annual Performance Reviews.
  • Team scheduling.
  • Overseeing team and individual motivation and discipline.
• Communicate with fellow team leads to stay informed on current pending releases, issues, etc.
• Participate in monthly operations meetings or review materials and recordings if unable to attend, and ensure necessary information is relayed to direct reports.
• Conduct regular team and 1:1 meetings with direct reports.
• Compile designated monthly reports.
• Create, update, and maintain various team-specific documents on SharePoint.
• Provide help with testing and proofing resource documentation as requested.
• Act as a lead member and participant of the Content Approval Team, helping to approve first release drafts for new clients and guiding editors through questionable copy situations.
• Handle all essential duties of a Newsroom Editor, as needed.

Requirements

• Proven experience with all aspects of the Newsroom Editor role, including:
  • Handling VIP clients.
  • Prioritizing workload.
  • Accurately distributing press releases with complicated distributions and formats.
• Previous training and/or manager experience preferred.
• Strong organizational, time management, and multi-tasking skills.
• Ability to work under time constraints and deadlines.
• Excellent and adaptive verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize time to maximize the greatest overall return on effort spent.
• Ability to probe for sufficient information to determine the significance and urgency of a specific task and devote the appropriate amount of time to any given task based upon its relative impact on the successful completion of key job objectives.

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