Senior Editor, AI Innovation, CNN Digital Products & Services
About The Position
CNN is seeking a Senior Editor, AI Innovation to prototype, test and deploy AI-powered tools, workflows and systems that advance our distinctive reporting and newsroom efficiency. Embedded in editorial operations, this role partners closely with reporters—particularly on investigative, enterprise, and data-driven work—to develop practical, scalable AI solutions that enhance research, editing, information management, and production. The role requires strong technical fluency, editorial judgment, and expertise in prompt-driven and agentic AI systems, with a focus on ensuring all AI-assisted work meets CNN’s standards for accuracy, objectivity, fairness, and transparency. Warner Bros. Discovery is a global media and entertainment company, and CNN is described as the world's most essential and engaging source of digital news, undergoing rapid transformation.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in journalism, digital media, product, or a related field with hands-on work in editorial workflows
- Strong understanding of investigative, enterprise, or data-driven reporting processes and standards
- Demonstrated ability to build or prototype tools, scripts, or workflows (e.g., Python, APIs, or automation tools) for real-world use cases
- Experience applying AI/LLM tools to analyze content and support reporting or workflow use cases, including prompt design, evaluation and output validation
- Familiarity with AI agent concepts or frameworks (e.g., multi-step workflows, tool use, retrieval, or orchestration)
- Comfort working in code (e.g., Python, APIs, JSON) or low-code environments to rapidly build and test solutions
- Ability to move quickly from concept to prototype, iterating based on user feedback and performance
- Experience collaborating with engineering or product teams on tool development, integrations, or system design
- Strong editorial judgment, including sourcing, verification, and alignment with newsroom standards
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and journalists
Responsibilities
- Embed with reporters, producers, and editors—especially on investigative and enterprise work—to build AI-powered tools and conduct AI-powered reporting
- Rapidly prototype and iterate using AI tools, APIs and lightweight code, moving from concept to usable solutions in real newsroom contexts
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to evolve successful prototypes into scalable tools and systems
- Design, test and refine prompt systems to produce consistent, high-quality outputs across newsroom use cases
- Build workflows that analyze documents, transcripts, datasets and other inputs to surface insights and accelerate newsgathering
- Develop AI-assisted workflows that improve efficiency across research, drafting, editing and information sharing
- Design and prototype AI agents that can execute multi-step workflows (e.g., ingest, analyze, summarize, and route information) to support reporting and newsroom operations
- Rigorously test all AI-generated or AI-assisted outputs—checking for accuracy, objectivity, fairness, and transparency across all AI-assisted outputs
- Uphold CNN’s standards of accuracy, fairness and transparency across AI-powered tools and AI-generated output
Benefits
- health insurance coverage
- an employee wellness program
- life and disability insurance
- a retirement savings plan
- paid holidays
- sick time
- vacation
- annual bonuses
- short- and long-term incentives
- program-specific awards
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
