St. Louis Public Radio, an NPR member station, seeks a P.M. News Editor to strengthen our afternoon and evening news coverage. This editor will play a key role in managing and editing daily news content for broadcast and digital platforms, with a shift that starts in the early afternoon and ensures we remain responsive to breaking news, evening developments, and the needs of our audience beyond traditional work hours. (The default schedule would be approximately noon to 8 p.m., with adjustments in cases of planned coverage of evening meetings or other events.)

The P.M. News Editor supervises a team of three or four reporters and collaborates closely with other editors, reporters and producers across the newsroom. This editor is responsible for assigning and editing stories and setting up the next day’s morning team with well-edited material and context about any late-breaking developments.

This position is ideal for someone with sharp news judgment, strong editing skills, and a commitment to public service journalism. It also offers a rare opportunity to shape STLPR’s capacity for late-day news coverage and help build sustainable newsroom workflows that serve our audience well across the entire day.

This is an opportunity to join a deeply collaborative, award-winning newsroom of nearly 30 journalists, committed to excellence, innovation and public service. STLPR is recognized nationally for ambitious storytelling and is a founding member of the Midwest Newsroom, which focuses on enterprise and investigative reporting. Our reporting regularly airs nationally on NPR, Marketplace and other programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Assign, guide and edit daily stories from a team of beat reporters, as well as other contributors with late-day stories.
• Serve as STLPR’s primary news editor after 5 p.m., with flexibility to adjust hours for night meetings and events or late-breaking coverage.
• Edit web stories, broadcast scripts, newsletters and briefs for clarity, accuracy and consistency with STLPR’s editorial standards and voice.
• Coordinate with St. Louis on the Air and digital teams on evening content priorities and post-show publishing needs.
• Support the morning team by producing web briefs and broadcast readers, and by sharing relevant developments in a handoff note.
• Collaborate with the Dayside News Editor and other editorial leaders to ensure comprehensive daily coverage and workload balance.
• Provide coaching and feedback to reporters, helping them strengthen their writing, sourcing and storytelling.
• Occasionally edit high-impact stories outside of your direct team, particularly when subject matter expertise or newsroom need arises.

Supervision Received

The P.M. News Editor reports to the Managing Editor of News.

Supervision Exercised

This position supervises a team of 3–4 reporters and may occasionally coordinate with interns or freelance contributors.

Location

This position is based in St. Louis. The P.M. News Editor must live in or relocate to the region. A moving allowance is available in applicable situations.

Salary Range

$70,000 - $87,000 annual

Other information

St. Louis Public Radio is a service of the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL), and through UMSL offers comprehensive benefits including health, dental and vision insurance, retirement and wellness programs through the University of Missouri System Total Rewards program. University employees receive discounts at the College of Optometry's Center for Eye Care, discounted passes for the Metrolink and UM System-sponsored programs. Additionally, UMSL staff and their dependents enjoy discounted tuition, and employees have access to a wide array of professional development opportunities.

The Atlantic is seeking an assistant editor to help deepen engagement among The Atlantic’s readers. The ideal candidate will be creative, organized, and energized by fast-paced work. 

This assistant editor will support the Community team’s work designing and building a social forum for Atlantic readers. The ideal candidate should therefore have plenty of experience with the social web—professionally and/or personally—and accompanying thoughts about what strategies will (or won’t) drive reader engagement.

The assistant editor will also be counted upon to help senior editors brainstorm any and all elements of community at The Atlantic. Big ideas are encouraged, and an appetite for experimentation is necessary. This editor will be expected to collaborate with colleagues across the newsroom, as well as with peers from the  Product and Growth teams, and other parts of The Atlantic’s business operation. This position will also involve promoting community initiatives and occasional night and weekend work.

 Responsibilities will include: 

• Vetting and moderating comments and contributions from readers
• Writing, editing and/or fact-checking work produced by the Community and Audience team (text, audio, and video)
• Filming, editing, and producing social videos
• Administrative duties to support building this project
• Publishing videos on social platforms
• Brainstorming new ways to engage with readers 
• Promoting community initiatives across platforms

Qualities of a successful candidate include:

• At least two years of experience in journalism, at a social platform or in a related field
• Excellent writing and research skills, but also experience in other mediums—or at least a willingness to learn
• A deep understanding of The Atlantic’s mission and journalism
• Familiarity with video and graphics editing, including CapCut or Adobe Premiere and After Effects
• Open-mindedness and a commitment to diversity of opinion and respectful debate. As we develop a community for our readers, a spirit in line with The Atlantic’s motto—“Of No Party or Clique”—will be critical
• Strong time management, with the ability to communicate effectively within a tight-knit team, as well as across a large organization, and to accomplish both discrete tasks and longer-term projects on deadline
• Familiarity with reading and understanding user analytics, and then using them to inform decision making
• A dedication to making The Atlantic’s journalism accessible and approachable to as many people as possible
• A natural knack for bringing people together, whether through rigorous debates or delightful surprises or, ideally, both!

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This role is based in Washington, D.C.

Annual compensation minimum: $69,000

Annual compensation maximum: $75,000

This is a Guild position.

About The Atlantic:

The Atlantic has, for more than 160 years, advanced ideas that matter and sparked global conversation on the most important issues of our time. We aim to bring clarity and original thinking to questions of consequence, on topics ranging from politics, the economy, and global affairs to technology, science, and culture. As the third-longest-running magazine in America, we find ourselves at a remarkable moment: one of both continuation and transformation, of upholding our legacy while continuously reinventing ourselves for the future.

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The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC ("The Atlantic") is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Atlantic is committed to diversity and encourages members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, LGBTQ people, people of color, and people with disabilities. We do not discriminate against our applicants because of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.  

Job offers to work at The Atlantic are contingent upon the candidate’s successful completion of reference checks and compliance with The Atlantic's COVID-19 vaccination policy. The Atlantic requires all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, including subsequent boosters, and submit proof of vaccination status. Employees who cannot receive the vaccine because of a disability/medical contraindication or sincerely-held religious belief may request an accommodation (e.g., an exemption) to this requirement.

• With the Managing Editor of Collaboratives and the Deputy Managing Editor, create an audience engagement strategy to deepen engagement with existing audiences and reach new audiences.
• Manage flagship products including a regional newsletter and audio broadcast, shaping them into reliable, habit-building vehicles for audiences.
• Curate our presence on social platforms, homepages and newsletters.
• Collaborate with stations across the region in a role that blends editing, marketing, strategy and mentorship.

• Lead and execute audience engagement strategy across web, newsletters, social platforms, and distributed networks.
• Edit and optimize stories for digital platforms, tailoring them for core audiences (ages 30–50) and experimenting with formats to reach younger and rural audiences.
• Manage and grow digital and text newsletters + audio as the anchor for regional engagement.
• Build and track audience metrics, translating them into actionable newsroom insights.Foster an environment of diversity, equity, and inclusion that upholds LPM and AMSN's values.
• Coach reporters and editors on digital best practices, audience engagement, and storytelling techniques.
• Stay current with digital tools, trends and audience behaviors.

KCCI-TV, the CBS affiliate in Des Moines, IA., has an opening for a News Producer who knows how to create meaningful and memorable newscasts. You have creative vision and have experience making decisions and communicating the plan. You know how to win the big story, own breaking news and display important weather information. You must be fast and able to play well in a room of same-minded pros. Accuracy is job one! You will report to an Executive Producer.

Responsibilities

• Select, research, and write content for live newscasts to make the newscast an "experience" for viewers
• Work with and guide reporters in story production
• Coordinate creative vision with team of anchors, reporters, meteorologists, photographers, editors, and production staff
• Boothing assigned newscasts, breaking news and weather events
• Live timing newscasts 

Requirements

• Professional or college producing experience
• Experience working in a newsroom
• Have writing and copy-editing skills
• Coordinate several crews and responsibilities simultaneously
• Experience summarizing information into easy-to-understand components
• Creative presentation style, and ability to showcase all resources and elements
• Have and exhibit the highest journalistic integrity and ethical standards
• Must be available to work holidays, shifts including nights, weekends and overnights, and flexible with schedule to be available during breaking news
• Related military experience will be considered
• In-person attendance is required

Diversity Statement

At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That's why, behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization as diverse and varied as the audience we reach, ensuring that the content we create is more compassionate, and more representative of the communities we serve.

Benefits

Hearst's benefit programs are modern, flexible and designed to focus on you. As a Hearst employee, you and your spouse or partner or dependents would have access to the following benefits.

• Medical | Dental | Vision
• 401(k) matching
• Emotional Wellness Support
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• LGBTQ+ Health Services
• Additional benefits to meet your and your family's needs