Multi-Media Managing Editor, KERO
About this role
- Lead the daily execution of KERO's streaming and digital news coverage, ensuring audiences have access to timely, relevant content around the clock.
- Serve as the newsroom's central information hub, helping coordinate coverage plans, breaking news response, and content priorities.
- Coach and develop reporters and MMJs to elevate storytelling across digital, streaming, social, and broadcast platforms.
- Collaborate with newsroom leadership to execute audience-focused content strategies that drive engagement and community impact.
- Oversee the writing, editing, and publishing of stories across all platforms while maintaining quality and consistency.
- Provide timely and constructive feedback that helps journalists strengthen their reporting, writing, and presentation skills.
- Develop and refine workflows that support multiple news products, including streaming, digital, social, and broadcast content.
- Ensure all content meets the highest standards of journalistic ethics, accuracy, fairness, and legal compliance.
- Help identify opportunities for enterprise and accountability reporting that resonate with local audiences.
- Support breaking news coverage and provide multi-platform content leadership when news demands immediate action.
- Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Communications, or a related field preferred, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Seven or more years of experience in journalism, digital content, newsroom leadership, streaming, or a related field preferred.
- Proven experience managing content in a fast-paced newsroom environment and making sound editorial decisions under deadline pressure.
- Deep roots in digital journalism, streaming content, and audience engagement strategies.
- Strong understanding of broadcast-style storytelling and how to adapt stories across platforms.
- Demonstrated expertise in coaching journalists and helping teams produce stronger, more impactful work.
- Exceptional editorial judgment and knowledge of journalistic ethics, media law, and libel standards.
- Curiosity about the communities, issues, and people that shape the stories we cover every day.
- Strong organizational and communication skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- A collaborative leadership style that builds trust and encourages innovation throughout the newsroom.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment where priorities can shift quickly.
- Flexibility to work a variety of shifts, including nights, weekends, early mornings, and holidays when news coverage requires it.
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COMPENSATION RANGE:
Annual Salary: $90,000.00 - 95000
ADDITIONAL BENEFITS:
A career path to grow your professional experiences
Full medical, dental and vision benefits, as well as certain other health and wellness benefits
Retirement savings plan with company match
Other key company benefits include disability accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, life insurance, AD&D, ID protection, pet discount program, and employee assistance program. More details about timing and conditions of benefits eligibility and other plan terms and conditions will be provided upon hire.
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SCRIPPS’ COMMITMENT TO A CULTURE THAT CREATES CONNECTION:
At Scripps, we are committed to a culture that reflects the audiences and communities we serve. We are intentional about creating an environment where employees, our audiences and other stakeholders feel valued and inspired to reach their full potential and create connections. To successfully deliver on this commitment, we must understand and reflect the values and perspectives those around us embody. That process begins by looking inward to build and celebrate a respectful workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging and connection. By continuing to cultivate an environment where all employees have a fair chance to succeed, are included, valued, and seen, we will strengthen the connections that drive positive business impact and align with our core purpose.
ABOUT SCRIPPS:
The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) is a diversified media company focused on creating connection. As one of the nation’s largest local TV broadcasters, Scripps serves communities with quality, objective local journalism and operates a portfolio of more than 60 stations in 40+ markets. Scripps reaches households across the U.S. with national news outlet Scripps News and popular entertainment brands ION, ION Plus, ION Mystery, Bounce, Grit and Laff. Scripps is the nation’s largest holder of broadcast spectrum. Scripps Sports serves professional and college sports leagues, conferences and teams with local market depth and national broadcast reach of up to 100% of TV households. Founded in 1878, Scripps is the steward of the Scripps National Spelling Bee and its longtime motto is: “Give light and the people will find their own way.”
As an equal employment opportunity employer, The E.W. Scripps Company and its affiliates do not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender, color, religion, age, genetic information, medical condition, disability, marital status, citizenship or national origin, and military membership or veteran status, or on any other basis which would be in violation of any applicable federal, state or local law. Furthermore, the company will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship for the company.
Company at a glance
KSHB 41 News broadcasts 38 hours of news each week and is part of a duopoly with KMCI 38 The Spot. Owned and operated by Scripps, KSHB won the prestigious Alfred I. DuPont Columbia University Award for its coverage of the 2013 restaurant explosion and fire at a landmark restaurant in a historic Kansas City shopping district. This coverage also won a regional Emmy Award. KSHB was named Station of the Year in 2012 by the Kansas City Press Club. In 2014, KSHB won three regional Edward R. Murrow Awards and was named the Business Philanthropist of the Year.
The station began operating in 1970. Scripps bought the station in 1977 and in 1981 changed the call letters to KSHB, standing for Scripps Howard Broadcasting.
If you’re not familiar with the Greater Kansas City metro area, what you’ll find may surprise you – a vibrant city and flourishing suburban communities, rolling hills and tree-lined boulevards, a thriving economy driven by thousands of small businesses, tech start-ups, medical research, and headquarters of companies like Hallmark and Sprint. Ours is a community of good schools, cultural amenities, acclaimed dining (particularly our BBQ) and affordable living. Most importantly, it’s a community with a heart – friendly, easy-going, and forward-thinking. That's why Kiplinger Magazine and other publications have rated Kansas City as one of the 50 Smart Places to Live!
With more than 200 fountains trickled throughout the city, it’s no surprise that KC has earned the nickname, “The City of Fountains.”
An array of arts includes the Kansas City Symphony, Opera and Ballet and the nationally recognized Nelson Atkins Art Museum.
Kansas City residents also participate in an active professional sports scene that includes the Kansas City Chiefs, Kansas City Royals, Sporting Kansas City, and the Missouri Mavericks to name a few. At last count, we had 12 professional sports teams plus NASCAR. We’re also wild about college sports in this town.
Top Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement savings plan
- Company match
- Disability insurance
- Accident insurance
- Hospital indemnity
- Critical illness insurance
- Life insurance
- AD&D insurance
- ID protection
- Pet discount program
- Employee assistance program
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