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Christianity Today · 1 week ago

Editorial Director, News

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

5+ years exp

Christianity Today (CT) serves its readers as a thoughtful and trustworthy source for news and analysis from an evangelical perspective. The Editorial Director of news upholds CT’s journalistic standards while leading a team committed to truth-telling and storytelling.

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Responsibilities

Manage CT’s news team, including other editors, staff writers, and regular freelancers and correspondents

Assign and edit news and news analysis stories, in the process covering what Christians do and providing a biblical perspective on general news developments

Discover news that is of interest to CT readers—both stories that other outlets are covering and those stories that others have missed

Ensure CT’s content upholds journalistic standards, ethics, and CT’s values

Work with editors to sharpen news value, angles, and headlines across the website and social media

Speak about CT stories on The Bulletin and other CT podcasts

Travel for reporting and team meetings

Appraise the executive editor and editor in chief of sensitive news stories and investigations and consult with legal counsel as needed

Find and train freelance journalists, communicating CT’s working philosophy, vision, mission, the interests and needs of its readers, journalistic ethics, and otherwise helping the reporters to develop manuscripts into acceptable articles

Work compatibly and collaboratively with other CT staff members, in the process developing effective workflows within the news team and the editorial team

Perform additional job-related duties as assigned

Qualification

Editorial experienceNews judgmentEditing skillsTheological knowledgeAdaptability to technologyAttention to detailCommunication skills

Required

5+ years of editorial and newsroom experience, with a record of strong news judgment, editing skills, and attention to detail combined with the ability to analyze complex information

A commitment to meeting deadlines along with a willingness to work irregular hours (nights, weekends, and holidays) as breaking news requires, and to adapt to new technologies and content management systems

Ability to communicate well on podcasts as well as in print, with an awareness of CT's mission and its place in the media landscape

Theological knowledge and the ability to make practical applications from it. CT is committed to orthodox Christian doctrines on the Trinity, Scripture, Adam and Eve, the Fall, Christ's redemptive work on the cross, resurrection, and biblical inerrancy. We affirm the Nicene Creed and the Apostles' Creed as well as CT's own statement of faith. These commitments shape our journalism and all content production at every stage. CT is prolife and believes God designed sexual activity to be in the context of a marriage between a man and a woman. We are dispositionally conservative—not reactionary or opposed to progress but biased toward due process and respect for time-tested wisdom. We oppose extremists on either the right or the left who put power above persuasion