Deputy Editor

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🕒 July 31

🐻 Alaska, Hawaii, +1 more states – Remote

🐻 Alaska – Remote 🌺 Hawaii – Remote 🦬 Wyoming – Remote

💵 $83k - $129.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

✏️ Editor

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USA TODAY Network

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201 - 500 employees

📱 Media

📣 Marketing

🤝 B2B

Media • Marketing • B2B

USA TODAY Network is the national media and advertising arm of USA TODAY Co. , operating a large portfolio of local and national publications and offering a full suite of advertising and marketing solutions. It provides digital and print display advertising, direct mail, branded content, performance marketing, video, SEO, merchandising, and self-serve marketplace services, backed by data-driven technology, creative services, events and an AI-powered platform. The Network emphasizes local advertising reach supported by national scale and serves businesses across automotive, travel, finance, education, home improvement and other verticals.

📋 Description

• Direct day-to-day coverage, including breaking news, of the NFL in collaboration with the NFL editor and other leaders, assuring urgency that goes beyond the basic facts and first headline and pushes forward into the impact of the news and what it means for the audience. • Take a leading role in assuring enterprise reporting is part of our daily offering, assigning with an eye for audience engagement and guiding direct reports and others from across the team in the ideation and reporting process. • Use SEO, analytics and optimization techniques to grow readership and engagement. • Regularly engage reporters in discussions about metrics and story optimization best practices, helping them understand their role in audience growth. • Collaborate with video, podcast, social, graphics and other teams as needed to amplify, supplement and improve NFL content as well as other editors and reporters to tell bigger stories. • Contribute to daily and event planning with meticulous documentation that allows for wide understanding and execution as we leverage the size of the USA TODAY newsroom and network to deliver coverage to millions of readers. • Maintain USA TODAY Co.’s high standard of journalistic integrity and ethical reporting.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications or equivalent field. • Minimum of eight years of journalism management experience, with strong background leading sports content teams. • Exceptional news judgement as well as strong editing and writing skills. • Ability to work nights, weekends and during high-volume news cycles. • Willingness to contribute across the USA TODAY Sports Network team as required around major sporting events. • Proficiency in digital publishing, metrics and SEO best practices. • Be a willing learner, ready to explore new tools and techniques to improve our workflows and our work.