Editor Senior, Visual, CNN

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To see what it’s like to work at CNN, follow @WBDLife on  Instagram  and  X ! Your New Role …   CNN’s global Visuals team is seeking a senior editor to help lead our visual journalism during critical late-day and evening news hours. This is an editorial leadership and people-management role for an experienced visual journalist who can guide breaking news coverage, shape ambitious enterprise   projects   and help teams produce clear,   accurate   and distinctive storytelling across formats.   This editor will work closely with CNN’s news desks and with designers, data journalists, developers,   reporters   and other editors across the global Visuals team. You will   identify   the strongest visual opportunities across the news cycle, assign and edit work, oversee story   design   and help ensure that CNN’s visual journalism is serving audiences with clarity,   creativity   and urgency.   The ideal candidate is an excellent editor and calm newsroom leader who can move easily between a breaking news situation, a visual story pitch, a line edit, a design review and a conversation about a team member’s development. This role is intended to strengthen CNN’s late-day and evening coverage and will ideally be based on the West Coast or   work   an East Coast schedule that includes evening hours.   Your Role Accountabilities …   • Set editorial priorities for the Visuals team during late-day and evening news hours, ensuring   strong communication   and handoffs across time zones.   • Anticipate breaking news coverage needs and lead visual responses across a wide variety of scenarios.   • Assign and edit graphics, maps, visual stories, interactives, annotations and other formats for breaking news, daily coverage and medium- to long-term enterprise projects.   • Edit visual and data-driven stories, including both graphics and text, ensuring clear framing, strong   reporting   and journalism-first execution.   • Review story structure, design, data analysis,   visualizations   and interactive storytelling to ensure they meet rigorous editorial and design standards.   • Identify   visual opportunities across CNN’s coverage and work proactively with editors and reporters on other desks to develop strong approaches.   • Lead major projects in partnership with multiple teams and stakeholders,   establishing   clear expectations,   timelines   and decision-making processes.   • Collaborate with platform and distribution teams to strengthen the framing and packaging of visual stories across home screens,   apps   and off-platform channels.   • Maintain an organized view of assignments,   priorities   and handoffs for global coverage.   • Manage,   mentor   and support a group of visual journalists, providing thoughtful feedback and helping teammates develop their skills and careers.   • Refine workflows, document   processes   and contribute to a collaborative culture of experimentation and skill-sharing.   • Apply audience insights to help shape story ideas, formats and approaches that resonate with and serve CNN’s audiences.     Qualifications & Experience…       • At least   7   years of experience in a newsroom or comparable editorial environment, including experience editing visual or data-driven journalism.   • Experience managing   visual   journalists and supporting their day-to-day work, long-term   development   and career growth.   • Impeccable news judgment and the ability to lead calmly and decisively during breaking news.   • A proven ability to edit both visual storytelling and text, from early framing and reporting through final publication.   • Strong visual judgment and experience reviewing story design, data visualization, interactives,   maps   and other graphics formats.   • A track record   of   identifying   strong story ideas and pushing storytelling beyond obvious or incremental approaches.   • A strong representative of the Visuals team within a wider organization: you build positive cross-team relationships and champion visual journalism as essential to coverage.   • Experience editing or leading elections coverage, including familiarity with election results, political data and map-driven storytelling, is strongly preferred.   • Excellent communication skills and comfort working with senior newsroom leaders, reporters, editors, designers, data   journalists   and developers.   • Experience balancing fast-turn breaking news coverage with medium- and long-term enterprise projects.   • A reader-first perspective and strong commitment to clarity, accuracy and multiplatform storytelling.   • Familiarity with modern data, mapping,   design   and visualization tools is helpful, but deep technical expertise is not   required .   • Curiosity and openness to experimenting with new storytelling formats,   platforms   and emerging technologies.   If you   don’t   have every one of these skills,   that’s   OK. We want to hear from candidates who are passionate about this work and eager to bring their unique perspective and experience to the role.   How We Get Things Done… This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at [enlace en el portal] along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview. Championing Inclusion at WBD Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law. If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request. In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery’s total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $79,800.00 - $148,199.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation. If you’re a qualified candidate with an arrest or conviction record, please know that your application will be considered in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.