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We’ve established ourselves, and our model, as a full-service very good community newspaper that happens to be digital. We cover all the topics that matter to our readers, from government and education coverage to environment and health, and food and the arts. We’ve established ourselves as a go-to source of breaking news and accountability reporting, increasing our impact year-by-year. Lookout Santa Cruz won the 2024 Pulitzer for Breaking News, and Lookout's fiercely mission-driven, business-driven model is winning wide national notice. Check out our network page: https://lookout.co/network.\nOur workplaces are in-person, in-community, collaborative and collegial. We are building a diverse, highly skilled and mission-driven group of journalists, community builders and business people intent on maintaining our culture of learning, growth and community service.\nAbout the role\nThe Managing Editor is a central newsroom leader responsible for driving editorial excellence across Lookout Santa Cruz’s coverage of Santa Cruz County and, secondarily, the surrounding region. This role requires a proven editor with a track record of elevating ambitious journalism and leading teams of reporters across multiple beats to produce distinctive, high-impact work.\nThe ideal candidate brings exceptional news judgment, sophisticated story ideation, and rigorous line editing skills - along with a demonstrated ability to coach reporters to do their best work. Just as important, this editor thrives in a fast-paced, digital-first environment and is deeply committed to building a consistently excellent, seven-day-a-week report.\nAt Lookout, excellence is not occasional - it is expected throughout the day, every day. We serve readers with a mix of investigative and accountability reporting, authoritative beat coverage, breaking news, and service journalism that answers real community questions. The Managing Editor ensures that this work meets a high bar for relevance, clarity, and impact.\nWe prioritize reporting that connects the dots, explains complex issues, and delivers insight with authority and precision. Whether a story is 500 or 2,500 words, it should be deeply reported, well-sourced, and clearly written. We embrace a range of formats - from narrative and explanatory stories to Q&As, reader-driven formats, and multimedia - always matching the format to the journalism.\nResponsibilities\nEditorial Leadership & Team Development\nWork with the Executive Editor to set the daily and long-term editorial agenda.\nLead and manage a team of reporters covering a range of beats, providing clear direction from idea generation through publication.\nEdit stories with rigor and precision, ensuring clarity, depth, fairness, and distinctiveness.\nCoach reporters to elevate their reporting, sharpen their focus, and produce ambitious, high-impact journalism.\nFoster a culture of accountability, creativity, and continuous improvement across the newsroom.\n\nStory Ideation & Execution\nDrive a strong pipeline of enterprise, investigative, and beat-driven stories.\nEnsure daily coverage is urgent, relevant, and aligned with audience needs.\nElevate storytelling through structure, framing, and the use of compelling supporting elements (data, visuals, multimedia).\nMaintain high standards for sourcing, reporting depth, and narrative clarity.\n\nCommunity-Centered Journalism\nEnsure coverage reflects and engages the full diversity of Santa Cruz County.\nWork with reporters to surface community concerns, questions, and undercovered issues.\nCollaborate on audience engagement efforts, using feedback and insights to inform coverage.\n\nStandards & Trust\nUphold the highest standards of accuracy, fairness, and independence.\nEnsure all content is nonpartisan, transparent, and trustworthy.\nMaintain consistency in voice, tone, and editorial quality across the report.\n\nInnovation & Digital Execution\nEmbrace and advance digital-first storytelling, distribution, and audience strategies.\nWork closely with product and audience teams to optimize reach and impact.\nUse modern tools and platforms to enhance reporting, editing, and presentation.\nExperiment thoughtfully with new formats, including video and reader-driven journalism.\n\nQualifications\nAt least 7+ years of journalism experience, including 3+ years in a significant editing or newsroom leadership role.\nA proven track record of journalistic excellence, particularly in editing and elevating reporters across multiple beats.\nDemonstrated success leading teams to produce impactful enterprise, investigative, and beat reporting.\nExceptional news judgment, story sense, and editorial instincts.\nStrong line-editing skills, with the ability to bring clarity, structure, and authority to complex stories.\nExperience managing reporters, providing constructive feedback, and developing talent.\nDeep understanding of - or ability to quickly immerse in - Santa Cruz County and its communities.\nFluency in digital-first journalism and content management systems (Newspack or similar).\nAbility to balance speed with quality in a deadline-driven environment.\nCommitment to inclusive, community-centered journalism.\nComfort working in a startup environment that values agility, collaboration, and innovation.\nStrong visual and storytelling instincts, with the ability to collaborate on multimedia presentation.\nPluses:\nBilingual skills\nExperience with data journalism\nAudio/video production experience\nWhat We Offer:\nCompetitive salary and performance-based incentives.\nFull-time benefits include highly competitive medical, dental, and optical benefits, and 401(k) with matching.\nGood PTO allowances\nStock options in our growing company\nAn opportunity to make a significant impact on and contribute to the revival of local journalism.\nA collaborative and mission-driven work environment.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6020,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Stock options"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["News Agencies","Digital Media"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T20:25:30Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 1 · green card filings: 1","filings_12m":1,"filings_prev_12m":6,"green_card_filings_12m":1,"median_offered_wage_usd":187500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":11,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.4,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":91,"expected_fill_days":36,"reasons":["conf:3","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/lookout-managing-editor-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/lookout-managing-editor-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-28T08:39:27Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":11251,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-29T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1755749},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1755749"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Flookout-managing-editor-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Flookout-managing-editor-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Flookout-managing-editor-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/lookout-managing-editor-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Flookout-managing-editor-2"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":1319376}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"lookout.co","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":1319376},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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