Newsroom Lead

Summary

Join our team as a Business Wire Newsroom Lead and demonstrate your exceptional communication and leadership skills while managing a newsroom operations team. You will assume full responsibility for a team, ensuring all tasks are completed accurately and efficiently. Responsibilities include handling high-profile projects, prioritizing workload, anticipating and resolving problems, and serving as a liaison to operations and sales managers. You will also assist newsroom personnel, demonstrate effective leadership, evaluate team performance, coordinate training, manage team members, and participate in meetings. This role requires proven experience as a Newsroom Editor, strong organizational and communication skills, and the ability to work under pressure.

Requirements

• Proven experience with all aspects of the Newsroom Editor role. This includes handling VIP clients, prioritizing workload and accurately distributing press releases with complicated distributions and formats
• 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 and probe for sufficient information to determine the significance and urgency of a specific task and devoting the appropriate amount of time to any given task based upon its relative impact on the successful completion of key job objectives

Responsibilities

• Assume full responsibility for a team, ensuring all tasks are completed accurately and efficiently including regular sweeps to make sure no items are pending and fall through the cracks, such as emails, messages or monitoring tasks; assigning press releases and completing quality checks on orders
• Serve as a main point of contact in the handling of high-profile projects
• Prioritize work load in the newsroom to ensure that high-profile and/or high-priority projects take precedence
• Anticipate and identify problems, and take appropriate action to bring about resolution
• Serve as a liaison to operations and sales managers, keeping them informed of client concerns or problems when necessary
• Assist newsroom personnel with the handling of complex or unusual news-release and/or client situations, including offering guidance in regard to the proper escalation and handling of problematic copy or working with sensitive clients
• Demonstrate effective leadership; lead by example and ensure that newsroom staff meets expectations set by management
• Effectively evaluate the day-to-day performance of direct reports; make sure they follow 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 but not limited to: 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 in order 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
• Be a lead member and participant of the Content Approval Team, helping to approve first release drafts for new clients and helping editors navigate through questionable copy situations
• Handle all essential duties of Newsroom Editor, as needed

Preferred Qualifications

Previous training and/or manager experience