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Regional Editor - South Bay/Orange County Gateway Patch
Are you a passionate and entrepreneurial online journalist and leader. Want to be part of a dynamic and innovative team of journalists, engineers, designers and business pros who are creating a bold new solution for our industry. Do you think that traditional news media just don t get it anymore. Would you like to manage a team of local editors running news sites aimed at transforming community journalism and re-engaging communities.
If you answered yes to any of those questions, keep reading
We re Patch.com, a start-up that s radically reinventing community journalism. We launched in February 2009 and we currently operate more than 50 local news sites in towns with populations under 70,000 and now we re expanding again. Patch is founded on two core principles: that news matters in towns across the country and that we can create a successful business model to sustain it. Even as many newsrooms have been downsized or shut down, Patch is investing millions to create a nationwide network of news sites using our dynamic platform to produce meaningful daily and enterprise journalism and pioneer new forms of storytelling to serve communities. We have won acclaim in the industry and coverage in The New York Times, Forbes Magazine, Bloomberg, NPR s Talk of the Nation, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and numerous industry blogs and Web sites. We ve recently also announced Patch.org, a new initiative that will allow us to collaborate with local foundations and journalism schools to cover underserved communities.
Patch.com is looking for smart, innovative journalists to join our team as full-time Regional Editors, leading and inspiring a team devoted to creating cutting-edge journalism and collaborating with the extended Patch team to innovate in the community journalism arena. We see this as nothing less than the future of online journalism. Visit patch.com to learn more about our mission and to visit our news sites.
Job responsibilities to include, but not limited to :
- Manage a region of 12 local editors, each running their own site. Local Editors are tasked with reporting, writing, editing, assigning, taking pictures and video, maintaining an events calendar and a database of local business listings, getting users involved, and liaising with important community figures.
- Ensure that the sites provide an invaluable source of trusted news and information that will improve people s lives.
- Drive your region s sites to become a landmark in their communities.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues in a region and across the country to produce impactful breaking news, features, and enterprise journalism and to create new ways to connect with and engage communities
- Identify and develop deep ties, visibility and strategic partnerships in the communities you oversee that strengthen coverage
- Work collaboratively with regional publishers and the business team to raise the visibility of the sites in the region
Competitive salary and benefits package, including 401-K match and performance bonus. Patch Media is an AOL company.
Patch is recruiting in the following states:
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- At least 4 years of experience in community journalism
- Ability to lead, manage, direct, motivate and inspire a team working remotely
- Manage and track a budget for your region
- Keen understanding of SEO and the ability to analyze regional site traffic reports, and make decisions based on them
- Eye for talent and appreciation for, and ability to train and mentor, young journalists
- Experience in online journalism, including comfort with technical aspects of web publishing and social media tools and trends
- Experience editing photography and video
- Must have a firm grasp of AP style.
- Passionate about the web, social networking, and of course community journalism
- Be able to quickly grasp the interests, rhythms, and identity of a region and its constituent communities.
- Unparalleled organizational, time management and interpersonal skills
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Entrepreneurial spirit and drive; start up experience a plus
Education/ Industry background:
- Bachelors degree in journalism or similar discipline and 4-5 years experience managing editors or similar
- Ideal candidate will have been a senior-level editor overseeing multiple local reporters or even publications, including online media operations
- Must be a flexible, independent, self-starter – you ll work virtually all of most of the time from home, coffee shops and other community locales, your car, meeting weekly with your team one-on-one and all together
- Tools for the job best of all we will provide them: including a laptop, smart phone, camera, police scanner, etc.
- Must be willing to relocate if there isn t a region open near you
- Ability and willingness to work various hours outside of the typical M-F and 9-5 including some nights and weekends.
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