Augusta Editor

Capital B•Augusta, GA

1d•$90,000 - $110,000•Onsite

About The Position

We're launching Capital B Augusta, our next local newsroom, and we're looking for an entrepreneurial editor to help build it from the ground up. As Founding Editor, you'll shape our editorial strategy, establish our presence in the community, launch our newsletter, report and write it and help define how Capital B serves Augusta for years to come. Working alongside Capital B's broader editorial and audience teams, you'll help create a model for community-centered local journalism that can be replicated in cities across the country. This position reports to Capital B's Executive Editor. Augusta deserves local journalism that helps people navigate their daily lives. We're launching Capital B Augusta to build a trusted civic resource for Black residents: one that helps people understand what's changing, what matters, and what to do next. Through our newsletter, we'll deliver accountability reporting, service journalism and practical information that helps residents better understand and shape their community. We'll also provide an antidote to sensationalistic, fear-driven coverage of crime by delivering reporting that adds context, accountability and practical information instead of simply amplifying fear. We'll combine community listening, rigorous reporting and thoughtful experimentation with AI to build a news product that's useful, trustworthy and responsive to the people it serves.

Requirements

A deep understanding of Augusta and the issues affecting Black communities there.
At least five years of reporting and editing experience.
Strong news judgment and excellent editing skills.
Experience with newsletters or audience-focused journalism.
Experience creating compelling social video or a willingness and enthusiasm to become comfortable on camera.
An entrepreneurial mindset and excitement about building something new.
Comfort making thoughtful decisions when there isn't already a playbook.
A commitment to community-informed journalism.
A habit of using audience data, experimentation and community feedback to make editorial decisions. You enjoy testing ideas, learning from results and continually improving your work.
Curiosity about using AI responsibly to strengthen journalism.
The ability to collaborate across editorial, audience and business teams.
Belief that local journalism should be measured not just by the stories it publishes, but by whether it helps people make better decisions about their lives and communities.
Interest in understanding whether journalism reached the right people, answered the right questions, and changed how someone understands or navigates their community.

Responsibilities

Build Capital B Augusta's editorial operation from the ground up.
Launch and lead our newsletter.
Report, assign and edit journalism that helps residents navigate civic life.
Establish editorial workflows, coverage priorities and newsroom routines.
Develop recurring newsletter features readers come to rely on.
Create short-form video that explains local news, showcases reporting and helps grow Capital B Augusta's audience across social platforms.
Build trusted relationships across Black Augusta.
Lead a team of part-time community ambassadors to ensure community questions shape coverage.
Partner with Capital B's audience, product and design teams to grow the newsletter.
Use audience data, experimentation and community feedback to improve our journalism and increase engagement.
Help develop responsible AI workflows that make local journalism more useful, accessible and transparent.
Build editorial systems that can grow as the newsroom expands.