Lee Enterprises is seeking a managing editor for planning & audience engagement at the Greensboro News & Record and Winston-Salem Journal, two newsrooms working together as one team to cover the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina, while also providing content tailor-made for the Greensboro and Winston-Salem markets.

The managing editor for planning & audience engagement will report directly to the executive editor and work closely with the managing editor for news & production to increase our paying audience by giving the 1.7 million people in the Triad the stories they want and need and can’t get anywhere else.

The right candidate will be a master planner and strategist who tracks metrics to establish and adjust coverage and storytelling priorities, but most importantly a leader who will work through front-line editors and with teams, including enterprise reporting and sports, to accomplish our mission of engaging and retaining digital subscribers.

This person will be a skilled communicator and an effective teacher, coach and mentor.  We’re looking for someone with proven success growing a digital audience, either as an editor or digital producer, and strong leadership qualities. 

The Triad, anchored by the cities of Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, is a thriving hub for arts and entertainment, growth and development and healthcare. It’s home to more than 20 colleges and universities, including Wake Forest, UNC Greensboro, UNC School of the Arts, High Point University and North Carolina A&T, the nation’s largest historically Black college and university.

Why Join Us?

Lee Enterprises offers competitive wages in a dynamic, interesting work environment with career growth opportunities. We offer an extensive benefit program that can be personalized to your needs. Our benefit program includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, company provided life insurance and supplemental life insurance. In addition, we offer a 401K retirement plan with company match. We also offer generous paid time off to allow the flexibility to balance personal life and work. This includes paid parental leave for new parents. 

Lee Enterprises is a major subscription and advertising platform and a leading provider of local news and information, with daily newspapers, rapidly growing digital products and nearly 350 weekly and specialty publications serving 73 markets in 26 states. Our core commitment is to provide valuable, intensely local news and information to the communities we serve.

Lee Enterprises is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to attracting and retaining a workforce whose diversity reflects the communities we serve. Lee embraces change, and we recognize that we must create and maintain a culture of fervent inclusion. For more information about Lee, check us out at www.lee.net.

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you are excited about this role but do not meet 100% of the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply.