Business Editor

The Seattle Times•Seattle, WA

About The Position

The Seattle Times, a family-owned news organization, is seeking a visionary leader for its award-winning business team. As the Business Editor, you will set the editorial direction on coverage areas including aerospace, the tech sector, real estate, affordability challenges, and the health of the local economy. The role requires someone who inspires, coaches, and empowers journalists. The Business Editor will supervise one editor and oversee a team of eight responsible for coverage of regional economic and employment trends, as well as major Northwest players such as Boeing, Amazon, Microsoft, Costco, and Starbucks. The successful candidate will balance breaking news, deep-dive enterprise, and watchdog stories, tailoring high-concept and complex stories to a general readership by showing how business news affects workers, small-business owners, consumers, homebuyers/renters, and others who call the Pacific Northwest home.

Requirements

8+ years’ experience at a news organization, including supervisory experience.
Excellent team-leadership skills, with proven success recruiting, hiring, developing and retaining top talent. Passion for coaching and mentoring journalists.
Demonstrated record of successfully reporting and editing business coverage, including complex enterprise story packages as well as breaking news.
Strong news judgment, with impeccable standards of accuracy, honesty and fairness.
Cultural competence and a proven track record of practicing inclusive journalism.
Sophisticated communication skills; ability to negotiate, collaborate and engage in sometimes challenging conversations with staff, leadership and readers.
Demonstrated skill at coaching reporters to find, shape and report stories, using tools such as datasets, earnings reports and public records requests. Familiarity with laws governing bankruptcy, employment, debt and other business matters.

Responsibilities

Leads a team to produce daily news and longer-term enterprise stories.
Works with newsroom departments to lead ambitious projects that cut broadly across disciplines and topical areas. Collaborates with visual journalists and the digital team to create rich experiences for readers.
Rallies staff to respond quickly and accurately to breaking news, establishing The Seattle Times as the leading source of information in a competitive marketplace.
Uses analytics to inform coverage that reaches new readers, wins subscribers and builds loyalty.
Embraces diversity in the workplace and in our coverage, thinking inclusively about everything from story framing and sourcing to word choice and presentation.
Recruits, hires and trains with the long-term sustainability of the newsroom in mind. Contributes to a healthy, positive and welcoming workplace culture.
Helps journalists prioritize and focus in a busy environment.
Works occasional nights or weekends when news requires it.
Represents the business section and The Seattle Times to the community and other groups as needed.
Evaluates wire stories for use in the business report online and in print.
Understands and upholds the standards, ethics and mission of journalism at The Seattle Times.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and long-term disability insurance
Employee assistance program
Optional life and AD&D insurance and long-term care insurance
401(k) plan with employer match
10 days of annual vacation accrual, increasing with tenure up to 20 days
10 days of annual sick accrual; unused sick pay accrues to an extended illness bank
9 paid holidays
Monthly internet stipend for predominately remote employees
Subsidized transit cards and parking costs
Complimentary Seattle Times subscription
Wellness program
Fertility coverage (with lifetime limits) for eligible employees
Parental leave options