Managing Editor

Lee Enterprises Inc   Glens Falls, NY   Full-time
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Managing editor

Lee Enterprises seeks an experienced journalist and leader to lead The Post-Star of Glens Falls, N.Y., a Pulitzer Prize-winning news operation. The top editor should be a skilled editor with a digital focus and a passion for producing engaging journalism.

The Post-Star's hands-on leader should be a great coach, mentor and editor who can juggle the demands of digital and print, and grow audience across platforms.

A successful candidate will have extensive management experience and a proven track record of inspiring journalists to create work of the highest caliber in watchdog, investigative, enterprise, data-based and breaking news reporting. This editor should set newsroom strategy for digital growth and community outreach. The next editor should have an eye toward mentoring news staff, recruiting young journalists and retaining top news talent.

The Post-Star's next editor should have previous experience as a top editor, city editor or digital director, with 5-10 years of leadership experience and a degree in journalism or a related field.

Please include a resume and cover letter that details your successes as a news leader with your online application.

Why Join Us?

Lee Enterprises offers competitive wages in a dynamic, interesting work environment with career growth opportunities. We offer an extensive benefit program that can be personalized to your needs. Our benefit program includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, company provided life insurance and supplemental life insurance. In addition, we offer a 401K retirement plan with company match. We also offer generous paid time off to allow the flexibility to balance personal life and work. This includes paid parental leave for new parents.

Lee Enterprises is a leading provider of high-quality local news, with 77 daily newspapers in 26 states that have print, digital and e-replica versions. Lee's newspapers have a combined circulation of more than 1.2 million daily. Our digital sites attract more than 44 million unique visits monthly. We also have a rapidly growing roster of digital products for consumers, and are committed to aggressive digital growth.

Lee Enterprises is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to attracting and retaining a workforce whose diversity reflects the communities we serve. Lee embraces change, and we recognize that we must create and maintain a culture of fervent inclusion. For more information about Lee, check us out at www.lee.net .

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you are excited about this role but do not meet 100% of the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply.
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Lee Enterprises Inc

Glens Falls, NY