Title: Managing Editor
Location: US National
Remote
Full Time
Blavity, Inc. is a venture-funded technology and news media company, founded in 2014 around a simple idea: enable Black millennials to tell their own stories. Today, we are home to the largest network of platforms and lifestyle brands serving the multifaceted lives of Black millennials & Gen Z through original content, video, and unique experiences. The company has grown into a market leader for Black media, reaching 250 million users per month through our growing brand portfolio, including Blavity News, Blavity Politics, 21Ninety, AfroTech, Travel Noire, Shadow & Act, and Home & Texture. Assembled of passionate, high-energy, and focused rock-stars, our Blavity, Inc. Team executes our values at the forefront of mind: Love of Community, Transparency and Communication, Collective Responsibility, and Fail Fast. Blavity, Inc. is continuously looking for new team members to help us continue to scale, cultivate our community, and advance our strategic direction.
Job Summary:
Blavity Inc. is hiring a Managing Editor for one of the company’s largest brands, Travel Noire. The person in this role is a hands-on leader and coach of content contributors who has top-notch journalistic integrity and is immersed in all things pop culture and travel. The ME is charged with guiding the Editorial team to possess a solid news sense as well as make snap judgments about the proper treatment of content; whether it’s an affiliate article, trending story, or breaking news piece that resonates with the Travel Noire audience.
This content lead applies a mix of recognizing audience behaviors, interpreting data, pouring through social platforms, writing, editing and staying up-to-date on current events and viral trends. The Managing Editor safeguards the brand’s philosophy to usher in a world of travelers more representative of the diversity that lies within it.
This role reports directly to the Associate Vice President, Consumer Media Content which is part of the Commerce & Consumer Media Division.
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