Lead Manager, Newsroom Editor
About The Position
AT&T Corporate Communications is seeking a newsroom-minded editor to manage the high volume of external news and storytelling produced by the team. The role sits at the center of the corporate newsroom, tracking upcoming news, identifying what matters most, and helping focus the team’s attention. It combines editorial judgment, newsroom operations, and cross-team coordination to create a connected, coordinated, and agile newsroom. The editor builds relationships across Corporate Communications to surface priorities early, connect stories across teams, and turn news, ideas, and opportunities into a focused editorial agenda. The role reports to AT&T’s Editor-in-Chief and works across Corporate Communications and with channel and production partners. The position is full-time and onsite at the designated work location five days per week in Dallas, Texas. No relocation is offered. The role is listed as regular, with 40 weekly hours.
Requirements
- Experience in a fast-moving editorial, communications, publishing, or newsroom environment.
- Strong editorial judgment and the ability to make stories sharper, clearer, and more compelling.
- Ability to distinguish objectively important stories among competing priorities.
- Exceptional organizational and project leadership skills, including managing high volumes of work and shifting priorities.
- Ability to build relationships, influence across teams, and provide clear, tactful feedback.
- Track record of bringing clarity and structure to complex work and working across teams, levels, and competing priorities.
- Comfort working in ambiguity and changing course quickly when a story changes.
- Curiosity about using technology and AI to improve editorial planning and newsroom operations.
- At least 5 years of related experience.
- Certification is required in some areas.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree (BS/BA) desired.
Responsibilities
- Maintain a clear view of stories, announcements, and opportunities across Corporate Communications and the larger enterprise.
- Build relationships across teams to identify priorities early and stay informed about upcoming work.
- Identify story overlaps, competing priorities, and opportunities to strengthen stories by combining them.
- Help determine which stories need attention now, can wait, or should not move forward.
- Keep the editorial agenda current as news, business priorities, and timelines change.
- Guide priority stories from idea through development, review, approval, and external publication.
- Clarify owners, decisions, deadlines, dependencies, and next steps.
- Anticipate roadblocks and bring the appropriate people together to resolve them.
- Coordinate with owned channels and production partners to connect priority stories with the right audiences.
- Provide calm, focus, and forward momentum when priorities feel urgent.
- Partner with the Editor-in-Chief to improve editorial standards and owned storytelling across Corporate Communications.
- Serve as a subject matter expert on editorial standards and help teams create sharper, more distinctive storytelling.
- Develop simple, scalable ways of working that reduce friction and help the communications organization move faster.
- Build newsroom tools and processes that make work easier to coordinate and complete.
- Establish enough structure to coordinate the newsroom while preserving flexibility for an always-on news operation.
- Use audience insights, performance data, and new technology, including AI, to improve editorial planning and newsroom operations.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Paid time off and holidays, including at least 23 vacation days per year and 9 company-designated holidays, based on date of hire
- Paid parental leave
- Paid caregiver leave
- Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
- Adoption reimbursement
- Short- and long-term disability benefits
- Life and accidental death insurance
- Supplemental critical illness, accident, hospital indemnity, and group legal benefit programs
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
- Employee wellness programs
- Employee discounts of up to 50% on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (including fiber where available), and AT&T phone
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
