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About the Role

CNN is seeking a Global Weekend Senior Multiplatform Editor for its EMEA headquarters in London to lead weekend news coverage and shape major global stories. This role is for a seasoned editor to oversee digital-first journalists worldwide, ensuring alignment across desks and timezones, and orchestrating coverage across digital text, video, TV, and visual-led journalism.

Responsibilities

• Lead the news agenda during EMEA hours on weekends, overseeing editorial in all formats and platforms, focusing on international and US national news.
• Act as the key editorial link between CNN’s APAC and US hubs.
• Prepare CNN’s US audience by advancing overnight stories and ensuring high-impact content.
• Direct the commissioning and execution of cross-platform content.
• Edit and write text-based editorial, including breaking news, analysis, and enterprise journalism.
• Guide the production and framing of video news in various formats, including mobile-first and broadcast.
• Serve as the decisive editorial authority during breaking news, mobilizing cross-format resources globally.
• Oversee the commissioning of distinctive news features, analysis, and enterprise stories for weekend offerings.
• Project manage network-priority events in coordination with bureaus, correspondents, planning teams, and global stakeholders.
• Coordinate with digital programming colleagues on headlines, push alerts, and promotional language for maximum visibility.
• Utilize real-time and long-term analytics to inform commissioning decisions and improve content delivery.
• Act as the formal line manager for EMEA-based reporters, providing direction, feedback, and growth opportunities.
• Help lead the wider newsroom team, fostering a culture of experimentation and multiplatform skills.
• Work every weekend and occasional evenings (Wednesday through Sunday shift pattern).

Requirements

• Willingness to work weekends as part of the standard weekly pattern.
• Proven news editing experience within leading digital-first news organizations.
• Demonstrated success steering coverage in high-pressure, breaking news environments.
• Deep knowledge of US politics/current affairs and international geopolitical dynamics.
• Extensive expertise editing and writing digital text stories.
• Solid operational experience working across video, TV, and visual-led formats.
• Sharp news judgment with an ability to think in headlines and frame complex global stories for a US morning audience.
• A strong desire to experiment with storytelling formats and engage a multiplatform audience.
• Exceptional planning and organizational skills.
• History of successfully executing complex all-platform coverage plans.
• Impeccable written and spoken English.

Skills

• Multiplatform fluency
• News judgment
• Storytelling
• Planning
• Organization

Location

• London

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior

Benefits

• Thoughtfully curated benefits

About the Company

• Warner Bros. Discovery offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves.
• At WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done.

Equal Opportunity

• Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences.
• Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.
• If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.