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About the Role
Newsday is seeking an ambitious, audience-focused Culture & Life Editor to lead a team of journalists in reimagining how life on Long Island is covered through a modern, digital-first approach. This role focuses on issues, experiences, and conversations shaping daily life, utilizing video, social platforms, and visual storytelling to build audience engagement and deliver unique journalism.
Responsibilities
- Oversee coverage that helps readers navigate, understand, and enjoy life on Long Island, blending service journalism, enterprise reporting, audience insights, cultural storytelling, and accountability journalism.
- Lead daily and long-range planning for Culture & Life coverage.
- Develop enterprise stories, recurring franchises, newsletters, and audience-focused products.
- Identify emerging conversations, trends, and cultural shifts before competitors.
- Use audience insights, analytics, and newsroom metrics to inform editorial priorities.
- Partner across the newsroom, including audience, visuals, product, and video, to produce compelling digital journalism.
- Elevate service journalism that helps readers navigate everyday life on Long Island.
- Develop distinctive local reporting that cannot be found elsewhere.
- Coach reporters to strengthen sourcing, storytelling, digital skills, and audience engagement.
- Ensure coverage reflects the diversity, complexity, and evolving demographics of Long Island.
- Collaborate with audience and product teams on subscriber growth and retention strategies.
- Build editorial plans around major seasonal, cultural, and community moments.
Requirements
- Significant editing and newsroom leadership experience in a digital-first environment.
- A strong understanding of audience behavior, digital storytelling, and subscriber-focused journalism.
- Experience leading enterprise, service, and culture coverage.
- Exceptional news judgment and storytelling instincts.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills across departments and platforms.
- A deep curiosity about how people live and the issues that matter most to local communities.
Skills
- Audience-focused leadership
- Digital storytelling
- Video
- Social platforms
- Visual storytelling
- Newsletters
- Live experiences
- Service journalism
- Enterprise reporting
- Audience insights
- Cultural storytelling
- Accountability journalism
- Audience analytics
- Newsroom metrics
- Collaboration
- Communication
Location
- Long Island
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Editor
- Leader
Salary/Compensations
- $155,000 - $165,000
About the Company
- Newsday Media Group is reimagining how we cover life on Long Island, building a modern, digital-first report focused on the issues, experiences and conversations that shape how people live.
Equal Opportunity
- Newsday Media Group is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants and incumbents are selected, placed, trained, compensated and promoted without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, or disability or other classifications protected by applicable law.
- In addition, Newsday Media Group provides a reasonable accommodation for applicants/incumbents with disabilities. Please advise Human Resources if you require a reasonable accommodation.