Senior Director, CNN Business

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Your New Role...

CNN is looking for an experienced newsroom leader to manage the reporters and editors who cover business and media across the network's platforms. CNN takes readers and viewers to the places where things are happening and explains why those things matter. We inform and explain, putting the biggest stories of the day in context to help people make sense of the world. Rich business coverage is key to that effort.

• Manage day-to-day breaking news across business, markets, tech, media and economy coverage.
• Identifies, sets, and oversees editorial priorities with an eye toward CNN's own reporting process and through monitoring the competitive landscape
• Manage a Team of reporters, editors, and video producers including prioritizing assignments, directing reporting targets, identifying gaps and opportunities in coverage and coaching and evaluating the work itself
• Help editors and reporters develop clear beats and coverage priorities.
• Ensure that reporting is fair, complete and appropriately aligned across platforms.
• Oversee editing of text pieces, ensuring high and consistent quality in the written product.
• Work with colleagues across CNN to develop sophisticated video and audio offerings on business topics.
• Help develop new digital storytelling formats designed to advance the audience's understanding of business, finance and the economy.
• Play an active role in talent development across the team.

• 12+ years of editorial and digital news environment experience; specifically covering breaking news across business, markets, tech, media and economy coverage
• 3-5+ years of management experience
• Minimum 10 years editing experience
• Exceptional writing and editing skills
• Experience working in digital video or broadcast television
• Deep familiarity with the competitive coverage landscape
• Exceptional news judgment and an obsession with precision
• Experience guiding teams that have produced exclusive, agenda-setting journalism
• A track record of contributing to and executing stories across a variety of platforms
• A strong desire to experiment with storytelling formats and think creatively about how we serve our multiplatform audience