Lifestyle Trending News Editor
$85,000–$100,000 year
On-siteManhattan, New York, United States
Job Summary
Generate endless daily trending and exclusive ideas, then assign and edit stories at high speed across verticals like fashion, real estate, and parenting. Create short and long-term editorial strategies leveraging audience insights platforms while overseeing production, from crafting signature headlines to coordinating photo shoots. Constantly analyze web traffic and referral metrics to drive engagement, monitoring news for opportunities to add depth through original reporting and expert explainers. Manage reporters and editors on the team, coordinating closely with photo, video, and audience development departments. This role requires a confident editorial leader to set the lifestyle news agenda and drive traffic across multiple sources.
Required Qualifications
- At least 5 years of editing experience in a news or fast moving magazine environment, preferably in a lifestyle or culture department
- Excellent news judgement and the sharpest editing and writing prowess
- Your finger on the pulse of the topics and trends of interest to the Post audience
- Proven understanding of what makes a story successful across digital platforms - from headlines to visuals and optimization
- Proficiency in WordPress or similar CMS
- Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to manage multiple stories, writers, and deadlines simultaneously
- Comfortable making fast, decisive editorial calls in a breaking news environment
- Proven team leader who is skilled at managing and developing writers and can work across departments including visuals, social, and audience development
- Expertise with analytics tools and performance metrics to help guide coverage and strategy
- A deep understanding of referral traffic, particularly, social, search and Discover
- Proven experience in driving and retaining audiences, with deeper, engagement-focused content
- Tuesday-Saturday shift availability
- Office presence 5 days per week
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