Team Editor/ Health, Education and Justice

The Team Editor oversees the generation of radio features, newscast spots and digital storytelling from experienced reporters on the Education, Health and Justice beats, with a particular eye toward the ways the education, health and justice systems intersect with each other and with historical and current inequity. The ideal candidate will have experience covering news across multiple platforms, be able to inspire the team’s reporters to even greater storytelling, and play an important role on the News leadership team.

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Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manages and directs reporters to provide consistent content, making the best use of radio and digital-first material.
• Assigns and edits radio features, newscast spots and digital content related to Health, Education and Justice, paying attention to newsroom coverage standards, productivity goals and the need to balance daily news with more long-term and investigative coverage.
• Guides reporters to focus coverage around how inequity or discrimination affects people’s experiences with public health, education and criminal justice; and to uncover and examine solutions at the personal, community and official levels.
• Collaborates with reporters to represent a diversity of voices and experiences from Colorado in our coverage, including monitoring their source diversity tracking.
• Creates space to evaluate our work after air/publication, and works with reporters to improve their reporting techniques and storytelling as appropriate.
• Coordinates with CPR News’ interview program, Colorado Matters, to arrange reporter contributions to the show, and collaborates with the Investigations editor and/or the Audio Innovations team on projects.
• Prepares and shares monthly coverage storytelling plans with editorial team, and suggests news items in daily editorial meetings. Story and coverage priorities reflect CPR News goals to center people directly impacted by news, and contribute to CPR News goals to grow and broaden the audience.
• As part of the News leadership team, contributes to strategy and direction of CPR News and fills in for colleagues as needed.

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Education and Experience Requirements:

• Identification with the mission and purpose of Colorado Public Radio.
• Minimum of five years of strong journalism experience with features editing, breaking news, meeting deadlines, and management experience strongly desired.
• Impeccable news judgment and outstanding writing and editing skills.
• Must be able to thrive in an environment that requires juggling multiple tasks and deadlines and have strong organizational skills.
• Demonstrable track record of managing beat coverage with focus on enterprise as well as breaking exclusive stories.
• Demonstrated experience reporting or editing coverage of underrepresented communities.
• Ability to support and manage staff from various backgrounds.

Non-standard working hours guaranteed. On call as needed and accountable for establishing backup on-call staff when unavailable.

Position is based in CPR's downtown Denver newsroom.

Application Requirements:

To apply, submit a cover letter that includes where you learned of the job opening, resume, and three professional references to [email protected] with "Team Editor" in the subject line. Please also include links to samples of your work or projects you have led.

Incomplete applications will not be considered.

No phone calls or drop ins please.

Salary Range:

$75,000-$90,000

Benefits Summary:

Colorado Public Radio is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package that reflects our culture of caring. Our employees have access to: 100 percent employer paid individual health, dental, life, and disability coverage; an outstanding paid family medical leave policy plus paid holidays and a very generous sick, vacation, and personal time off plan; voluntary offerings such as vision; a competitive retirement plan match with no waiting or vesting periods; flexible schedules; engagement and development opportunities; and a casual atmosphere.

Colorado Public Radio is an equal opportunity employer and encourages workplace diversity.