Identifying and pitching audience focused story ideas to vertical leaders on a daily, weekly and monthly basis that are aligned with The Athletic’s mission to provide the best in sports journalism.
Drive communication between vertical editors and the audience team around tentpole events.
Handle audience reporting for verticals on a weekly/monthly level delivering insights on potential opportunities for further growth.
Work closely with search, programming and social teams during tentpole events to monitor performance and identify opportunities.
Work with vertical leaders and outside teams (email, social, programming, search) in determining optimized publish times for the next day’s stories.
Deliver daily reports to vertical leads that highlight trending stories, moments, and lines of coverage along with ideas of how to approach them in a way consistent with The Athletic’s journalism.
Partner with newsroom content analytics team to provide deep and actionable analysis to verticals.

2 years of experience working in newsrooms/digital journalism.
Comfortable with data analysis and using data to inform decision making and ideation for stories.
An understanding of the search and social media signals that indicate a story, moment or storyline is trending.
A willingness to collaborate, and the ability to partner with colleagues across the newsroom, the strategy, product, data and marketing teams, and beyond.

Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans.
Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses.
401k retirement savings plan and employer match.
Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.

Associate Audience Editor Full Time

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