Editor Sunshine Coast
Job Title:
The Sunshine Coast Daily is seeking a skilled and experienced media professional to lead its newsroom.
This is a prime opportunity for a motivated leader to take their career to the next level in an agenda-setting newsroom at a company that values people willing to grow professionally.
About the Role:
- Oversee the sourcing and creation of compelling content across print and digital platforms.
- Drive a content strategy that drives new engagement and connects with existing audiences across multiple platforms.
- Work under deadline pressure in a fast-paced newsroom environment.
Responsibilities:
Mentor, manage, and motivate journalists to deliver unique quality content that drives conversation and reader engagement.
Understand digital data and use it in planning quality content.
Collaborate with the Courier Mail on relevant content and partner with other regional teams within the division to deliver state-wide outcomes.
Set the tone in the newsroom and create a positive and productive working environment to help journalists perform at their best.
Requirements:
Strong digital newsroom leader with exceptional news judgment.
Extensive previous reporting and newsroom experience.
Experience overseeing the writing of quality content to tight deadlines.
Thrives on the challenge of meeting business targets and reader expectations then actively looks to exceed them.
Understands and has experience in digital storytelling as well as print.
Willing to embrace change and demonstrate agility in a fast-paced sector.
Self-starter who can maintain high levels of personal organisation and time management.
Understands social media, SEO, digital data.
A team player with excellent communication skills.
Able to network in the community and develop relationships with key stakeholders.
Benefits:
Exclusively ours – Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family.
Health & wellbeing – Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies.
Time off – News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life.
Helping you grow – Development opportunities and recognition.
Financial wellbeing – Support on making the most of your money.
Perks & discounts – Exclusive offers across a range of products and services.
Giving back – Make a difference to our communities.
Workplace Inclusion and facilities – Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents' rooms.
Company Overview:
The award-winning Sunshine Coast Daily is an agenda-setting newsroom in South East Queensland and part of Australia's most influential media organisation. Each month more than 17 million Australians choose to consume news and information from News Corp's digital and print products – more than any other media group in Australia.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:
We know that diversity strengthens our teams and newsrooms as we seek to tell stories that represent the diverse communities of Australia that we serve. Our people make us unique and we all have a story. We encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, races, cultures, religions, ****** orientations, abilities and gender identities to apply. Inclusion is important to us and we want everyone at News to bring their whole-selves to work.