Job Details
Managing Editor
2026-02-04 American City Business Journals Honolulu,HI
Description:
- Run the operational side of the Pacific Business News newsroom, ensuring content assignments are made, story and production deadlines adhered to and editorial standards met.
- Develop, oversee and edit stories.
- Manage reporters and steer reporters toward beat-driven hard news breaks and scoops; work directly with reporters and manage them throughout the day on stories of all types.
- Supervise and work with reporters to add context, perspective and voice to their content.
- Strives to meet or exceed goals related to audience-engagement and growth via total visits, member visits, conversions, Stories that Work and other metrics that measure how content is resonating in the local business community.
- Help reporters prioritize stories to pursue and sources to meet.
- Manage the daily news meeting.
- Oversee any awards content, special sections and editorial projects, as directed by the EIC. This could include the coordination of freelance photographers and/or contributing writers.
- Report and write on a weekly basis.
- Regularly participate in and attend Pacific Business News sponsored events.
- Take on any other assignment made by manager(s).
- Work cooperatively and collaboratively with all colleagues and sources.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum of three years of management and/or team leadership experience required for external candidates. Internal candidates must have experience in a senior reporter, associate editor or other elevated newsroom role.
- Foundational proficiency with Microsoft Office suite, such as Excel
- Proficiency with social media, AI and other platforms a plus
- Beat reporter experience
- Proficiency with AP style
- Ability to work with a reporter on story development
- Ability to plan, lead and execute large-scale editorial projects
- Can quickly adapt to change and can coach reporters through change in a positive, motivational manner
- Ability to execute under deadline pressure and to enforce reporter deadlines
- Demonstrates ethical journalistic behavior