Digital Production Editor

New York Post

100d • $78,000 - $85,000

About The Position

The New York Post delivers the best in News, Sports, Entertainment and Pop Culture with wit, irreverence and authority. Over the past 223 years, The Post has evolved into a multi-platform media company spanning print, digital, video, audio, app, television and commerce. The New York Post is seeking a Digital Editor (Tues-Sat, 7am-3pm) to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an iconic media brand as it continues to experience exponential growth online. The New York Post Digital Production team is responsible for optimizing every story that goes live on website. The digital team has a hand in headlines, visuals, videos and story builds to ensure that it is up to The Post’s high standards.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience as an editor in an online news environment.
• Excellent editorial judgment and communication skills.
• Proven ability to write pithy, web-friendly headlines.
• Ability to leverage multimedia content to enhance stories and user experience.
• Experience using social media to find and promote stories.
• Familiarity with content management systems, photo editing software and web analytics tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage production and publishing of digital content, packaging each story with headlines and visuals that are uniquely New York Post.
• Program the Post’s homepage at times, ensuring a balance of the most important, interesting and attention-grabbing stories of the moment.
• Use analytics-driven decision making, while also focusing on our core audience.
• Assist with breaking news, including sending out push notifications.
• Collaborate with reporters and editors across editorial departments.
• Serve as a point person for digital best practices.
• Pitch stories that are of interest to the Post audience across all sections.

Benefits

• Comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package.
• Variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits.
• Elective benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees