Editor

Beginning with the iconic Chicago Daily Law Bulletin® in 1854, we have steadily grown our business-critical and award-winning content. Law Bulletin Media is a diversified information company serving the legal, real estate and financial markets. We are seeking an Editor for our CDLB Department.

Position Summary:

The editor reports to the publisher and is charged with leading the newsroom, directing news coverage, and fulfilling the company’s collaboratively developed content strategy, both digital and print. The editor has the first and last word in getting the flagship newspaper to press and delivering the news content to the online newspaper, social media and the company’s digital platform Lawyerport. The newspaper is published digitally 5 days per week and in print 3 days per week.

The editor is a hands-on, in-the-trenches post. The editor, with support from the publisher, the editorial team and other company contributors, is intimately involved in story selection and assignment, coaching reporters, doing substantive editing, visual design and working with the Publisher on strategic planning for growth. The editor is an integral part of a leadership team growing the digital and multimedia dimensions of everything we do – online, alerts, video and collaborative data journalism – to achieve company goals.

The editor has a similar set of responsibilities with Chicago Lawyer, a glossy monthly with high production values and an affluent audience of legal professionals. The editor oversees the Chicago Lawyer’s managing editor and needs experience in long-form journalism, enterprise journalism, and magazine publishing – digital and print.

The editor has budget responsibilities and works with the publisher to develop annual budgets and manage to the budget throughout the year.

In all endeavors, the editor will need to be guided by hard-news sensibilities (as opposed to features or fluff), astute news judgment, the company’s content strategy and a commitment to the highest journalistic standards and ethics.

Essential Functions:

• Daily editing of copy often involving complex subject matter
• Involved in headline writing and fact-checking
• Overseeing newspaper and magazine production
• Overseeing execution of digital strategy
• Collaborate with other company resources to develop content and content integration for Lawyerport
• Story selection and deepening coverage and story mix leveraging reader analytics
• Coordinate enterprise and investigative story and project planning
• Coordinate special publications with design manager
• A highly developed understanding of visual storytelling, design and overall presentation
• Serve as the face and voice of our newsroom
• Manage budgets
• Managerial and staff-management skills, the ability to keep creative professions engaged, highly productive, professionally fulfilled, and on course to produce valuable information to meet our expanding readership needs

Position Qualifications:

• Undergraduate or graduate degree in journalism.
• At least 7 years’, ideally 10, managing and directly working with reporters and other content producers in developing and editing stories for digital and print channels
• Demonstrated management and mentorship skills
• Meaningful newsroom experience, especially with digital platforms and newspapers
• Magazine experience – from concept to production, print and digital
• Experience with online editorial tools including newspaper production and content management
• A solid background in courts, legal and business news coverage or work at a B2B publication as a reporter or editor.
• 3-5 years’ experience working in or covering the legal industry preferred.

Core Competencies

• Knowledge of journalistic tenets and Associated Press style
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to lead and work collaboratively while under deadline pressure
• Excellent communication skills – both oral and written – in a professional and courteous manner
• Ability to establish relationships with sources, customers, co-workers and managers
• Team oriented and ability to lead teams as well as work independently
• Ability to mentor and develop staff
• Analytical skills, grasps new concepts quickly
• Energetic, Enthusiastic, Assertive and Tenacious
• Proficient with MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, newspaper editorial systems (GN4 preferred), and content management systems preferred.

Physical Abilities:

• Mobility required for sitting, standing and walking.
• Manual/finger dexterity required in both hands to operate computer keyboard and manipulate small objects
• Sensory ability required to see, hear and touch
• Mental effort required for reading, writing, visualization, calculation and analysis

Work Environment:

• Hybrid work environment as well as engaging with the legal community, be it law firms, courthouses, governmental institutions, or wherever the news takes you.

BENEFITS

The overall well-being of our team is important to us. We offer generous benefits to help you achieve wellness in all areas of your life.

• Competitive salaries.
• Comprehensive health care: Company Paid Life, Medical, Dental, Vision Care, Voluntary Life and Long-Term Disability.
• Short Term Disability for up to 130 days, after 1 year of employment.
• Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Reimbursement Account.
• Parking & Transit Program.
• Pet Insurance for your furry loved ones.
• LifeLock to protect your financial well-being.
• Employer Match and Profit Sharing with our 401k Plan.
• Paid leave options, including parental.
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program
• Generous paid time off.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Hybrid office environment (2 days a week in office, 3 days a week remote).
• You will be joining a family-owned business that has been in existence since 1854.

LAW BULLETIN MEDIA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of age, race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, mental or physical handicap, veteran status or other legally protected status.

LAW BULLETIN MEDIA participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, we are required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before we can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. We can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

LAW BULLETIN MEDIA participa en E-Verify y proporcionará al gobierno federal la información de su Formulario I-9 para confirmar que usted está autorizado para trabajar en los EE.UU.

Si E-Verify no puede confirmar que usted está autorizado para trabajar, este empleador está requerido a darle instrucciones por escrito y una oportunidad de contactar al Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) o a la Administración del Seguro Social (SSA) para que pueda empezar a resolver el problema antes de que el empleador pueda tomar cualquier acción en su contra, incluyendo la terminación de su empleo. Los empleadores sólo pueden utilizar E-Verify una vez que usted haya aceptado una oferta de trabajo y completado el Formulario I-9.