Weekend Social Media Editor

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The New York Times is looking for an editor with experience in journalism and managing social accounts and help shape our weekend social report and contribute to broader weekend planning.

You will establish a vision for shaping and targeting our journalism for different platforms, with a special focus on weekend programming. You will be responsible for understanding and developing new strategies, tools and workflows as those platforms evolve. Engaging our readers, monitoring off-platform conversations for story ideas and integrating readers’ contributions into our daily and enterprise report is essential.

You will also work with reporters and editors across the newsroom on how social media and readers’ voices can inform our journalism, both pre- and post-publishing.

This role will also work with other Audience colleagues and weekend editors to come up with audience plans, signal social opportunities and create off-platform presentations of our journalism, including visuals.

This role will report to the associate director, off-platform, in New York.

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The annual base pay salary for this role is between $99,000.00 and $121,000.00.

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