Urgency editor
On-siteNashville, Tennessee, United States
Job Summary
Launch and lead daily breaking news coverage, ensuring rapid, accurate, and competitive reporting while coordinating newsroom resources for timely responses to developing stories. Drive urgency across the team by identifying opportunities for reporters to advance coverage, partnering with beat editors to elevate enterprise and trending stories, and coaching journalists on story framing, structure, and digital presentation. Edit and write stories quickly while maintaining high standards for accuracy, using audience metrics, search trends, and authorized AI tools to guide coverage decisions and anticipate emerging stories. Develop distinctive coverage plans that separate the newsroom from competitors and attract loyal audiences, leading conversations about innovation and audience needs to maintain an ambitious, collaborative, and supportive culture.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of five years of experience covering and managing breaking news coverage in a fast-paced newsroom
- Demonstrated success leading coverage that outperformed competitors and delivered significant audience growth
- Strong news judgment and the ability to make sound decisions under pressure
- Exceptional writing and editing skills
- Proven ability to coach and develop journalists of varying experience levels
- Experience using audience metrics, analytics and data to inform editorial decisions
- Strong understanding of digital publishing, search, social platforms and audience engagement strategies
- Experience using data tools, public records and emerging newsroom technologies, including authorized AI applications
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and shifting deadlines simultaneously
- Candidates should have facility with AI and automation and experience in using it to enhance their journalism
Desired Qualifications
- The successful candidate has a history of finding creative solutions when circumstances appear impossible
- A gifted writer and editor
- A strategic thinker who looks around corners and anticipates what happens next
- Relentlessly curious and highly competitive
- Comfortable making decisions in high-pressure situations
- Driven by audience needs and newsroom impact
- Skilled at transforming rough ideas into compelling journalism, even on the tightest deadlines
- A trusted newsroom thought partner whom reporters seek out for guidance
- Compassionate, empathetic and committed to helping others succeed
- Collaborative, approachable and respected by colleagues across the newsroom
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