OVERVIEW
The Digital Editor is an essential member of the Digital team, ensuring that CNBC International’s website outputs the highest quality and standards of Asian news stories, market updates, videos and features to engage CNBC’s audience of investors, business leaders and industry stakeholders.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Edit developing news and longer, analytic pieces and features accurately, ensuring that written content is reliably sourced, clear, compelling and accessible to lay readers
- Act as a hot-seat for CNBC.com, managing and updating the content on the site in real time by exercising strong editorial judgment and knowledge of business and financial news
- Curate the website by selecting the most relevant stories from wires and partners
- Swiftly and accurately write breaking news headlines to send as push notifications when confirmed or verified
- Occasionally write stories on a variety of subjects including financial markets, business trends, economics and central bank policy, geopolitical or political economy stories that have business and investment implications
- Make sure stories, features, video descriptions and interactive content on CNBC.com are of the highest quality and published in a timely manner
- Communicate timely and clearly with CNBC teams across countries and platforms, including TV, to ensure coordination of stories
- Produce original CNBC stories and wire copy in the content management system
- Assign work to other members of the APAC team and coordinate production to ensure the website is updated at all times
- Deputize for senior editors when needed
- Monitor and assess the performance of CNBC’s digital content using analytics tools, and move and reposition stories accordingly
