Opinion Director

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🕒 5 days ago

🐻 Alaska, Hawaii, +1 more states – Remote

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

💵 $138k - $215.6k / year

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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

• Set the editorial vision and strategy for USA TODAY Opinion, aligned with our mission, ethical principles, audience priorities, and civic role. • Maintain the highest standards for accuracy, fairness, transparency, and legal and ethical compliance in opinion journalism. • Lead and develop editors, writers, and contributors, building a culture of excellence, range of thought, and continuous improvement. • Represent USA TODAY Opinion internally and externally, including at industry events and public forums. • Shape a distinctive opinion report grounded in facts, strong reporting, and clear points of view. • Set coverage priorities across timely commentary, explanatory opinion, and the defining debates shaping the country. • Lead USA TODAY Opinion's experimentation with and oversight of AI tools, setting contributor standards around AI-generated and AI-assisted content, piloting potential applications, and helping shape organization-wide policy in this rapidly evolving space. • Partner across the USA TODAY Network to raise standards, surface strong local voices, and expand the reach and impact of opinion journalism. • Work across Product, Audience, Brand, and Multimedia to evolve how opinion is presented, distributed, and experienced. • Use audience insights to sharpen strategy, deepen engagement, drive subscription conversion and retention, and grow loyalty. • This role has final say on what runs, how it’s framed and promoted, and owns the roadmap for opinion products (digital packages, newsletters, podcasts, video franchises, live events, etc.)

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience leading opinion journalism at a major media organization. • Exceptional editorial judgment and deep command of ethics, libel, and publishing standards. • Proven ability to shape a clear editorial voice while managing a wide range of perspectives. • Strong editing, writing, and coaching skills. • Deep commitment to sourcing, reporting, and rigor in opinion journalism. • Ability to lead effectively across a large, distributed newsroom. • Track record of digital innovation and audience growth in opinion or commentary. • Experience in both print and digital (newsletters, social, podcasts, video) formats, plus eagerness for using data to inform audience decisions and ongoing experimentation.