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Social Strategy Editor Opening
The Audience Development team is seeking a social strategy editor who has experience in journalism, social media strategy, and analytics. The position will craft and execute The Times' strategy on existing and emerging social channels. This includes developing our presence on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Pinterest, as well as experimenting with newer social experience like Line and WhatsApp.
This person will establish a vision for shaping and targeting our journalism for different platforms, and will be responsible for understanding and developing new strategies, tools and workflows as those platforms evolve. They will advocate for the development of new tools and workflow changes and work across the newsroom to train reporters and editors in best practices in the practice of our journalism, both pre and post publishing.
Responsibilities include:
- Focus on big-picture social strategy for The Times newsroom.
- Develop and refine the voice of The Times on all of our off-site channels, social and otherwise.
- Work with reporters and editors on best practices, including framing stories for specific audiences.
- Develop testing strategies around medium (images, video) and headlines (A/B testing across locations).
- Work on templates that help reporters and editors use social media to enhance storytelling.
- Track success through engagement rates, growth statistics, and other metrics.
- Interpret data and signals to know what stories are the right fit for what audiences.
- Work with other internal teams (partnerships, product) on using social platforms, developing workflows, and including social behavioral learnings into our product process.
- Enhance our coverage of tentpole events with inventive and engaging social strategies, using new social tools to drive engagement.
- May include weekend shifts.
Requirements:
- 3-5 years of experience in social media or digital journalism.
- Extensive knowledge of all mainstream and some emerging social channels: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Vine, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Snapchat.
- Proven track record running social for major media outlets preferred.
- A passion for news
- Commitment to The Times and its journalistic mission.
- Skill at bridging specialties, including reporting, editing, product, analytics, software development, design and user research.
Interested applicants for this excluded position should contact justin.bank@nytimes.com.
- *PLEASE DO NOT CLICK ON APPLY**
The New York Times Company is an equal employment opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, national origin, citizenship or any other protected characteristic. The New York Times Company is committed to diversity in its most inclusive sense.
Social Strategy Editor Opening
The Audience Development team is seeking a social strategy editor who has experience in journalism, social media strategy, and analytics. The position will craft and execute The Times' strategy on existing and emerging social channels. This includes developing our presence on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Pinterest, as well as experimenting with newer social experience like Line and WhatsApp.
This person will establish a vision for shaping and targeting our journalism for different platforms, and will be responsible for understanding and developing new strategies, tools and workflows as those platforms evolve. They will advocate for the development of new tools and workflow changes and work across the newsroom to train reporters and editors in best practices in the practice of our journalism, both pre and post publishing.
Responsibilities include:
- Focus on big-picture social strategy for The Times newsroom.
- Develop and refine the voice of The Times on all of our off-site channels, social and otherwise.
- Work with reporters and editors on best practices, including framing stories for specific audiences.
- Develop testing strategies around medium (images, video) and headlines (A/B testing across locations).
- Work on templates that help reporters and editors use social media to enhance storytelling.
- Track success through engagement rates, growth statistics, and other metrics.
- Interpret data and signals to know what stories are the right fit for what audiences.
- Work with other internal teams (partnerships, product) on using social platforms, developing workflows, and including social behavioral learnings into our product process.
- Enhance our coverage of tentpole events with inventive and engaging social strategies, using new social tools to drive engagement.
- May include weekend shifts.
Requirements:
- 3-5 years of experience in social media or digital journalism.
- Extensive knowledge of all mainstream and some emerging social channels: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Vine, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Snapchat.
- Proven track record running social for major media outlets preferred.
- A passion for news
- Commitment to The Times and its journalistic mission.
- Skill at bridging specialties, including reporting, editing, product, analytics, software development, design and user research.
Interested applicants for this excluded position should contact justin.bank@nytimes.com.
- *PLEASE DO NOT CLICK ON APPLY**
The New York Times Company is an equal employment opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, national origin, citizenship or any other protected characteristic. The New York Times Company is committed to diversity in its most inclusive sense.