Deputy Editor

Overview

As Deputy Editor, you will guide a digital-first newsroom serving institutional investors and professionals, balancing daily news with enterprise reporting and audience growth. You’ll set priorities, shape coverage, and ensure clarity, ethics, and usefulness for a sophisticated audience. You’ll lead editors and reporters, driving high-impact stories, audience engagement, and editorial innovation.

This role combines strategic oversight with hands-on editing to deliver differentiated, decision-support journalism.

• retirement plan savings contributions
• bonus opportunities

• Set and prioritize editorial plans across platforms
• Lead reporters covering asset allocators and related topics
• Guide story selection, framing, and execution for timely, differentiated journalism
• Maintain high standards of accuracy, fairness, clarity, ethics, and originality
• Balance breaking news with enterprise, analytical, and investigative reporting
• Frame stories around clear audience needs and practical impact
• Promote interpretation, insight, and decision-support journalism over commodity coverage
• Oversee newsletters, franchises, and editorial products to build reader loyalty
• Collaborate with audience development, product, and marketing to boost engagement and subscriptions
• Identify opportunities to extend audience via newsletters, search, social, events, and emerging platforms
• Lead, coach, and develop reporters and editors; foster accountability and continuous improvement
• Support recruiting, onboarding, and talent development to strengthen newsroom bench
• Ensure journalism demonstrates impact and value to institutional readers

• Degree in journalism, communications, or related field, or equivalent professional experience
• Significant journalism experience with substantial editing and newsroom leadership
• Familiarity with institutional money management and asset allocators (CIOs to Endowments)
• Strong news judgment and ability to guide high-impact reporting
• Experience managing editors, reporters, or cross-functional teams
• Proven track record of coaching journalists and developing talent
• Strong understanding of audience-led editorial strategy and digital publishing
• Experience using analytics, audience insights, and editorial tools to inform decisions
• Ability to balance breaking news with long-term editorial planning
• Commitment to ethics, accuracy, and editorial excellence
• Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership skills
• Comfort with fast-paced, deadline-driven environments

• leadership
• communication
• collaboration
• analytics platforms
• audience insights
• digital publishing