Chicago Public Media is seeking a Managing Editor, Communities + Platforms to lead the newsroom's community engagement, audience growth, and multiplatform publishing strategy across digital, social, newsletters, community engagement, video, photography, print, and emerging platforms. This senior newsroom leader will oversee teams responsible for connecting our journalism with audiences across digital, social, newsletters, community engagement, video, photography, print, and emerging platforms. As a member of the newsroom leadership team, you will develop a community-first editorial strategy that strengthens how journalism is produced, distributed, and experienced by our audiences across every platform. You will lead efforts to align community and audience insights with editorial decision-making, modernize newsroom workflows, and ensure investments in platforms and storytelling formats reflect changing audience behaviors. The Managing Editor will oversee the Audience, Engaged Journalism, and Platforms teams, building a collaborative structure that brings together platform innovation, visual storytelling, audience development, community engagement and print production. This leader will partner closely with the newsroom, product, technology, membership, and marketing/data analytics teams to ensure Chicago Public Media's journalism reaches and serves audiences wherever they are. If you are passionate about community-centered journalism, newsroom transformation, and building sustainable strategies for public service journalism, we encourage you to apply.

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Chicago Public Media is seeking a Managing Editor, Communities + Platforms to lead the newsroom's community engagement, audience growth, and multiplatform publishing strategy across digital, social, newsletters, community engagement, video, photography, print, and emerging platforms. This senior newsroom leader will oversee teams responsible for connecting our journalism with audiences across digital, social, newsletters, community engagement, video, photography, print, and emerging platforms. As a member of the newsroom leadership team, you will develop a community-first editorial strategy that strengthens how journalism is produced, distributed, and experienced by our audiences across every platform. You will lead efforts to align community and audience insights with editorial decision-making, modernize newsroom workflows, and ensure investments in platforms and storytelling formats reflect changing audience behaviors. The Managing Editor will oversee the Audience, Engaged Journalism, and Platforms teams, building a collaborative structure that brings together platform innovation, visual storytelling, audience development, community engagement and print production. This leader will partner closely with the newsroom, product, technology, membership, and marketing/data analytics teams to ensure Chicago Public Media's journalism reaches and serves audiences wherever they are. If you are passionate about community-centered journalism, newsroom transformation, and building sustainable strategies for public service journalism, we encourage you to apply.

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