About the Opportunity
Managing Editor - Northeastern Global News
Northeastern Global News (NGN), Northeastern University's award-winning, fast-paced, daily news organization is looking for a seasoned Managing Editor to be based on Northeastern's Boston campus.
The ideal candidate is an adaptable and creative journalist with experience in top-tier media organizations, who will help drive innovative and timely storytelling, plan the news agenda, assign stories, set schedules, manage content production and the news flow and enforce deadlines. The job also involves delivering accurate and timely story edits across multiple platforms and helping to supervise a team of news reporters.
Higher education experience is not required.
The Managing Editor must have several years of experience working for daily commercial news organizations. The experience should include meticulous line-editing often under tight deadlines, factchecking, ensuring accuracy, and adherence to ethical standards, and helping reporters to conceptualize and shape high-impact stories.
NGN showcases news about innovation across Northeastern's academic and research enterprise, including but not limited to stories about discoveries, innovations across multiple areas, such as artificial intelligence, health, engineering, computer science, data science, and the humanities, to name a few.
NGN covers newsworthy stories across Northeastern's global system of 14 campuses in the US, UK, and Canada. Stories focus on examples of leadership and innovation throughout the university in areas including experiential learning programs, research, teaching, and campus life inside labs, classrooms, and beyond. NGN also provides commentary and analysis by faculty experts on timely topics that captivate national and global conversations. It is a highly data-informed organization with ambitious goals and impeccable standards.
We expect curiosity, accountability, creativity, along with a commitment to precision and speed.
This role is perfect for a journalist who is well-versed in a plethora of topics from science, technology and AI to health and wellbeing, sports and pop culture. The person in this role thrives in a fast-paced environment, has great news judgment, and understands how to mold copy to reach readers across digital platforms. The Managing Editor will be adept at crafting compelling, SEO-friendly headlines and captions.
NGN is part of Northeastern's Communications team in External Affairs. Reporting to the Executive Editor of NGN, the Managing Editor is part of a team of journalists who work closely with media relations, social media and multimedia teams within Communications.
The position is based on the Boston campus and is fully on site, five days a week. Remote or hybrid work are not an option. As is the case for every member of the Communications team, after-hours work, including weekends and holidays, is routinely required.
Key Responsibilities
- Edit a variety of stories including global breaking news, features, enterprise pieces, and articles focused on artificial intelligence, innovation, experiential learning programs, research, teaching and campus life, among other areas.