Staff Editor, CBSSports.com

We're looking for a desk editor for CBSSports.com. The contact for this hire is: Randy Brickley (randy.brickley@cbsinteractive.com).


Job Title Editor
Auto req ID 9364BR
CBS Business Unit CBS Interactive
Division/Station CBSSports.com
Department / Business Unit Sports
Location Florida - Fort Lauderdale
Job Description
Role & responsibilities:
- Supervising night desk 2-3 times per week.
- Taking an operational lead as schedules, situations dictate.
- Savvy management of the moving parts.
- Working with writers to direct event coverage.
- Process news, game recaps - - all daily news/feature/column production.
- Maintain editorial content for home page and website's sports arenas.
- Copy editing, headline/cutline writing, photo editing for website
- Working nights/weekends for 24x7x365 Newsroom operation.
Ideal candidate:
- Strong strategic planning skills and the ability to execute a plan.
- Aggressive, relentless pursuer of news who strives for accuracy/timeliness.
- Journalistic innovation and initiative to discover new ways to inform users.
- Proven leadership success in an editorial role managing a team of editors.
- Must possess exemplary judgment and decision-making skills.
- Innovative individual; possesses vision across online/multimedia/social platforms.
- Uncomfortable with the status quo; always looking to improve.
- Trustworthy, committed, considerate and skilled; high emotional IQ.
Compensation:
- Base salary
- Full benefits including family medical, dental, life insurance and matching 401(k)
Required Skills/Experience

- 4-7 years of online/newspaper editorial work in sports. - Ability to articulate and execute news judgment.
- Editorial planning and online web content management.
- Some supervisory experience preferred
- Must pass a background check

Job Status Full Time

Follow this link to apply:

http://www.cbsinteractive.com/jobsearch.php?mode=by_req&reqID=9364BR&tag=main_wrap;content

 

If you're a good newspaper copy editor with any online experience, I can't imagine why you wouldn't consider this job (barring location issues). They're devaluing us by the day at newspapers, and online sites don't seem to be hiring us by the droves, either. If I hadn't just taken a pretty good job in the last six months, I'd be all over this one.

 

Do they have folks working in New York, or is the entire operation based out of Fort Lauderdale?

 

This is Fort Lauderdale based, and I'm fairly certain there's no wiggle room on that. And nobody involved in the editorial production of the website is based in N.Y.

 

Boo! (Kidding, of course) Thanks for the insight.