Executive Editor News at Insider Inc

Insider is hiring a visionary Executive Editor to lead the more than 100 journalists across our bureaus in New York, Los Angeles, London, DC, San Francisco and Singapore. 

This person will report to the Editor in Chief, and will be responsible for Insider's coverage of politics, science, sports, global affairs, national security, crime, courts, criminal justice, education, race, religion, weather, disaster, digital culture, misinformation, and breaking news.

Insider's goal is to be a global news organization for smart, ambitious people who want to make life better—for themselves, their colleagues, their communities, and their worlds. 

Insider is one of the world’s most popular and influential news brands. Launched in 2007 as Business Insider, Insider generates more than 250 million unique monthly visitors across the globe and has hundreds of millions of video views each month. Insider has 14 editions around the world in seven languages. We have 600 journalists in our newsroom, and more every week.

This person should be obsessed with bringing to life the newsroom of the future, marrying the best tactics used by metros and global news organizations for decades with those developed (and yet to be developed) by digital outlets for the past 20 years.

They are someone who knows, and fervently believes, that impactful journalism can only happen when it is reaching lots of people. By which we mean, they are focused on making great journalism that crushes audience targets (in that order of priority). They are also thrilled, and relentlessly working, to reach big audiences because it means increased sustainability – and more investment – for the publication and its journalism and its journalists.

This person is ceaselessly curious about the world around them and knows how to turn that curiosity into story assignments, new beats, deep investigations, and annual themes for the entire division.

This is a high-profile role in a newsroom that values creativity, accountability, and diversity of ideas and opinions. We are looking for someone with leadership skills to guide experienced and inexperienced reporters and editors alike, and collaboration skills to work with editors across a wide range of teams.

The EE will have a keen eye for talent and an ability to build dynamic and diverse teams. The ideal candidate should be talented at organization and management to ensure that Insider remains nimble even as we grow. 

The person in this position is flexible and able to adapt quickly in a fast-paced newsroom. The ideal candidate for this role should be someone who is open to feedback and wants to get better every day. The ideal candidate will also have:

• Have impeccable news judgment and a keen sense of how to get ahead of the curve on the personalities, power struggles, and key trends in the news. 
• An interest in telling compelling stories about everything from climate change to the war in Ukraine to the personal finances of members of Congress.
• Be creative and have strong communication skills to assign and guide ambitious long-term features and projects, as well as the flexibility to run to the news and land competitive stories.
• Be excited at the opportunity to hire extensively, and have a clear vision for what would elevate our coverage and newsroom. 

Here are some of the division's recent big projects as well as smaller, but still important, original reports. 

• A New York City artist says Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell shopped her around to men at Mar-a-Lago. Other victims saw her as one of their enablers.
• Nicole Blank Becker was a longtime sex crimes prosecutor. Now she's the lone woman defending R. Kelly.
• Melinda Gates' divorce lawyer told us how he handles bitter splits between billionaire clients
• Before the sudden death of its leader, Ra Ma Yoga Institute was accused by some former members of being a cult. What happens now?
• Our coverage of the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial 
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• 5 moms whose sons were killed after they called 911 for help now live with the consequences of a failed mental health system that uses cops as a crutch
• Misogynoir holds Black women to higher standards. Why activist Tamika Mallory is unbothered by her critics
• They went to Fight Russians. Chaos ensued. 
• Our Conflicted Congress investigation, which has led to ongoing legislation around changing laws for government officials to own, trade, and disclose stock options.
• 1,133 people who work for the Queen

The salary range for this job is $190,000 to $230,000. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience and may fall outside of the range shown. Insider offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits.