Digital Editor

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

• 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
• Edit developing news and longer, analytic pieces and features accurately, ensuring that written content is reliably sourced, clear, compelling and accessible to lay readers
• 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

SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & REQUIREMENTS

• In-depth knowledge of CNBC’s editorial and programming priorities; a clear understanding and strong interest in financial markets, economics, technology and politics
• Understanding of global economics and financial markets and how events in different economies and markets affect one another
• Proven breaking news experience as editor or assignment editor for a leading wire service or business news organization, overseeing and making decisions about news coverage
• Ability to do full and substantive edits under tight deadlines that may require reworking of leads and story angles, ensuring editorial balance, or restructuring content to make them sharper, more compelling and relevant for CNBC’s readers
• Proven ability and experience in writing write sharp, compelling headlines and copy edit/proofread, as well as quickly identify mistakes, errors and typos
• Ability to multitask and prioritize a wide range of tasks under tight deadlines, while remaining calm and efficient in a fast-paced news environment
• A collaborative team member who fosters positive and respectful relations with colleagues across all departments and locations, ensuring a smooth-running website that is accurate
• Excellent verbal communication and organizational skills; strong research and succinct writing skills
• Demonstrated self-starter, with the confidence to make decisions quickly in a fast-paced news environment
• Knowledge of social media, especially Twitter
• Fluency in English is essential, ability to speak at least one Asian language would be advantageous
• Flexibility in working shifts, on weekends and/or public holidays
• Experience using content management systems

The responsibilities associated with this position are not limited to the above description and may be modified at any time by the Company.

NBCUNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL

NBCUniversal is one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks.

CNBC INTERNATIONAL

CNBC is the world’s number one business and financial news network. Its mission is to help the influential and aspirational make astute decisions to get ahead by providing live market updates, breaking news, in-depth analysis and exclusive interviews.

CNBC’s vast portfolio includes CNBC.com, the online destination for global business; CNBC PRO, the network’s premium subscription service that provides real-time global market data and market analysis, as well as a growing slate of live events where consumers can experience CNBC’s award-winning journalism, live.

With headquarters in New Jersey, London, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi, CNBC provides a truly global 24-hour business briefing for senior business leaders, the financial community and those with assets to invest or protect. Today the channel is available in more than 392 million homes worldwide. CNBC also boasts a growing audience across its social media and digital video platforms.

Visit www.cnbc.com for more information.