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We are committed to reviving local journalism and engaging with the community to reflect their needs and interests. Lookout Eugene-Springfield now approaches its first anniversary, having already achieved great traction -- audience, membership, advertising, and community trust -- It is part of Lookout Local, a now fast-growing, next-generation West Coast-based local news network. 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 applies the Lookout Local journalism model. The ideal candidate will demonstrate well-experienced news judgment, excellent story ideation and line editing skills and most of all be committed to creating a great seven-day-a-week news report.\nThe Managing Editor helps our team of journalists produce excellence every day, throughout the day, serving readers’ evolving needs with a wide range of meaningful and local/personal journalism, responsive to our diverse communities’ changing needs. The Managing Editor must be comfortable and enthusiastic about the wide range of content we will deliver, from investigative and accountability work to best-in-class beat stories, breaking news and service journalism that answers readers’ questions.\nWe focus on impactful stories and, while being a primary news source, keep our readers briefly updated on step-by-step governmental proceedings and other actions. We are high on explanatory, connect-the-dots reporting and pointed knowing writing. Whether in 500 or 2,500 words, we tell the readers what we know, well-sourced and well-told. We fit the formats to the content, using Q&As and Ask Lookouts, and other emerging formats - including video - in addition to narrative journalism.\nWe need a Managing Editor with extensive story-editing experience and a track record of leading teams of journalists. The ideal candidate brings deep knowledge of the Eugene-Springfield area, Oregon and/or the Pacific Northwest.\nResponsibilities\nEditorial Direction:\nWorking with the Executive Editor, the Managing Editor will help direct the daily newsroom, working with correspondents in planning, reporting, sourcing and first-line editing.\nThe managing editor will ensure we are producing high-quality, trustworthy, non-partisan stories and community information, working with Lookout colleagues on multiple evolving products to distribute that content.\n\nCommunity Engagement:\nHelp lead Lookout’s overall community engagement work, working with both correspondents and the wider Lookout team. \nLook for ways, in digital and in person, to gain reader insights and feedback.\nRepresent Lookout Eugene-Springfield at community events, strengthening its role as a trusted local institution.\n\nMaintain and Strengthen Standards:\nEnsure content meets the highest journalistic standards of fairness, accuracy, and clarity, delivered with trustworthiness and lack of partisanship.\n\nInnovation and Growth:\nApply the full toolbox of modern digital creation and distribution tools, working closely with colleagues, especially in audience analysis.\n\nQualifications\nYou should have at least seven years of journalism experience, and at least three as a newsroom manager. The position is on-site, in our collaborative office in downtown Eugene.\nRock-solid journalism judgment, intuition and taste. \nDemonstrated experience, with references to match, on story editing, news publication and deadline experience as well as proven ability to edit with painstaking clarity, providing readers with the context they need. \nAdept at using Newspack or modern content management systems and tools.\nDesire to work in an entrepreneurial, fast-growth startup environment, embracing the agility and flexibility required to thrive within a new business. \nExperience and comfort with the pace of digital-first journalism, and the digital technologies that power it. \nAbility to engage diverse local communities in Lookout’s work. \nAbility to think through visuals that will aid storytelling and work with colleagues to activate them. \nDemonstrated adaptability, especially with new topical coverage areas and communities.\nComfort learning new technology and experience working in content management systems, producing, editing and dressing stories with related media (photos, videos, etc).\nComfort with the format of Lookout’s correspondent-focused model, and the personality it brings to the work. \nPlusses: Bilingual abilities, data, and audio/video. \nAbout Lookout Eugene-Springfield\nIn one year, Lookout Eugene-Springfield has become the largest local newsroom in Lane County and is the destination for local news and information for this community. 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