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Manager, Quality Control/Copy Desk, (AJC)
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$87,200.00 - $130,800.00 / yr
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parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, sick time, 401(k)
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 United States, Georgia, Pine Lake | |
 Jan 24, 2025 | |
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Are you a skilled editor and leader with a passion for clarity and accuracy and a love of news? Join our team at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as a manager for our Quality Control Team, which serves as the final line of quality control for the incredible work of the largest local news organization in Georgia. The team combines the strengths of a traditional newspaper copy desk with modern digital sensibilities and skills.
The AJC's mission is to be the most essential and engaging source of news and information for the people of Atlanta, of Georgia and the South. To achieve that mission, we are transforming ourselves from a storied daily newspaper into a modern media company. The AJC believes that when you cover the South, you uncover the nation. It's a belief that's produced award-winning journalism, elevated our community, and captured the substance and soul of our hometown for more than 150 years. We are looking for an experienced and detail-oriented manager to help lead our Quality Control (QC) team in ensuring accurate, engaging, and optimized content. This role requires a leader with strong editorial and organizational skills who can manage multiple priorities while collaborating effectively with content teams. You will lead a team that provides the final edit, review and polish of content from all areas of the newsroom, ensuring the highest standards of clarity, accuracy and audience appeal for our readers. The Quality Control team operates 365 days a year and managers may be required to work weekend or non-typical shifts to meet the deadline newsroom needs of a digital operation. Responsibilities: - Supervise the end-to-end quality control process, including copy editing, headline optimization, linking, SEO checks and content publishing. - Serve as the primary point of contact between the Quality Control desk and various content teams to ensure seamless communication and workflow. - Efficiently prioritize content reviews based on deadlines, story significance and audience needs. - Coordinate timing of reviews to ensure prompt publication while maintaining quality and accuracy. - Apply subject matter expertise to handle content on sensitive topics and flag such material for additional review with Standards and Practices if needed. - Identify stories needing additional optimization and work with teams to enhance visibility and engagement. Engage with real-time audience analytics tools to determine when a story might be underperforming. - Track and manage corrections across all products to maintain transparency and uphold content accuracy. - Lead training sessions on tools such as Tansa and Arc, promoting best practices for content editing, consistency and workflow efficiency. - Coach team members to recognize areas of improvement in copy and to work collaboratively with writers to solve content concerns in a way that best serves readers. - Advocate for quality editing across the newsroom, suggesting workflow and training tactics (or changes) that will improve both our content and our journalists. - Identify to senior desk leader and content team leaders patterns and trends in content that could be addressed effectively by stylebook updates, guidance to writers and other tools. Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 6 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 4 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year experience in a related field; or without a degree 10 years' experience in a related field - At least 1 year of experience in leading teams or management position - Extensive experience in copy editing, editorial quality control or digital content management. - Strong editorial judgment and understanding of sensitive content review. - Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and manage workflows in a fast-paced newsroom environment. - Expertise in SEO best practices, content optimization and digital publishing tools. - Familiarity with correction tracking and editorial standards. - Leadership skills and experience in training staff on editorial tools and standards. This position is ideal for a driven individual who combines a strong editorial background with digital optimization skills and a passion for maintaining content quality. Join us in this leadership role to help ensure our newsroom content is accurate, timely and resonates with our digital audience. USD 87,200.00 - 130,800.00 per year Compensation: Compensation includes a base salary of $87,200.00 - $130,800.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program. Benefits: The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave. Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship. About Cox Cox empowers employees to build a better future and has been doing so for over 120 years. With exciting investments and innovations across transportation, communications, cleantech and healthcare, our family of businesses - which includes Cox Automotive and Cox Communications - is forging a better future for us all. Ready to make your mark? Join us today! Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page . 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