Newsletter Editor (Level 1 Journalist)

Reuters is hiring a Newsletter Editor (Level 1 Journalist) and will be based in San Francisco, CA.

This critical role will help ensure we engage and grow our global digital audience. In addition to making sure our current offerings remain must reads, you will be part of a team tasked with evaluating new opportunities to expand our newsletter portfolio. You must have strong news judgment and experience collaborating with tech, analytics, and other teams to deliver new products.

What is the focus of this role

You will oversee, improve, and expand the Reuters newsletter offering, with the goal of increasing readership and deepening engagement. Prior experience using analytics to drive newsletter subscriptions, improve click through rates and increase traffic is critical.

As our Newsletter Editor (Level 1 Journalist), you will:

• On a day-to-day basis, you'll have a hands-on role overseeing the Reuters newsletter output, working with writers and designers to strengthen the quality of our existing newsletters, from editing copy, to coming up with smart subject lines
• Use data to understand reader behavior, and regularly experiment with a/b testing tools to gain reader insights and develop best practices
• Use data learnings to find ways to increase engagement with our newsletters, and working with the social team to promote newsletters
• Assess opportunities to launch new newsletters, conducting research and using data to guide judgement, and pitch ideas to the wider team

To be our Newsletter Editor (Level 1 Journalist), you will likely:

• Have at least 4 to 5 years creating, writing, and editing newsletters. (Your previous experience with newsletters does not need to be for a newsroom, but you must be able to demonstrate strong news judgement.)
• Have excellent experience using analytics to make newsletter decisions and understand how readers are consuming the newsletters
• Have experience using a/b testing tools and newsletter publishing tools. (Meaning, you don't want to just put together good newsletters and hit send: you want to make sure people read and enjoy them.)
• Be able to collaborate across teams, from product, to revenue, to editorial.
• Finally: you must be excited at the role newsletters can have in delivering the news to readers.

This position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement between Reuters and the NewsGuild of New York, CWA Local 31003, AFL-CIO.

What's in it For You

At Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

• Global Career: As a global company, we can offer a truly international career and progression opportunities
• Learning & Development: On the job learning and coaching. We also have a dedicated training team focused on the continuous development of our journalists
• Benefits: We offer competitive salary packages and market leading benefits
• Perks: Work alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and a team who provide unmatched, award-winning coverage of the world's most important stories.

(Internal candidates: Please note this position is incorrectly listed as being in the EIC job family).

About Reuters

Reuters is the world's largest multimedia news provider. Founded in 1851, it is committed to the Trust Principles of independence, integrity and freedom from bias. With unmatched coverage in over 16 languages, and reaching billions of people worldwide every day, Reuters provides trusted intelligence that powers humans and machines to make smart decisions. It supplies business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers. Reuters: The Real World in Real Time

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In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our eligible employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick paid time off, paid holidays, parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceed the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Dependent Flexible Spending Accounts; access to Employee Assistance Program; fitness membership reimbursement; commuter benefits; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The location(s) for this role include one or more of the following (New York City, San Francisco, Culver City, Irvine). The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $70,000 - $125,000.

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As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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