Senior Enterprise Editor, NBC News Digital

Job Description

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We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

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Job Description

NBC News Digital is hiring an experienced editor to work with our enterprise reporters on investigative projects, ambitious accountability stories and features that capture national attention. 

This editor should have a proven record of success in conceiving, producing and editing well-written, high-impact work on a variety of topics. The editor should have demonstrated experience in coordinating all aspects of digital projects, including multimedia elements, data visualizations and cross-platform promotion. Experience running data-driven investigations and business investigations is a plus. 

The editor will work with our Managing Editor, Enterprise, and another Senior Editor to manage a team of seven reporters based across the United States producing groundbreaking original stories on the most significant newsmakers and news events of the day. Topics may include racial and economic inequality, policing, technology and misinformation, health care, climate change, the military, and government and business accountability. 

Our preference is for this role to be a hybrid work schedule, based in New York or Washington, D.C., generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week. But we will consider applicants based elsewhere in the United States.

Job duties: 

• Work with the Managing Editor, Enterprise, to develop rigorously reported, compelling stories that are creatively told across all digital platforms and lead a team of reporters producing these stories. 
• Edit several enterprise articles and features each week, along with a series of major projects every year. Some of this work will involve a rapid response to breaking news. 
• Manage reporters on the enterprise team, working with them to produce journalism that sets us apart. This includes guiding the reporters in developing ideas, coaching them on reporting and writing, and editing their stories.
• Work with a range of journalistic talent from both digital and TV, including digital staff members who want to elevate their game into long-form work, television reporters and producers, and freelancers.

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