News Team Lead - Environment

This is a high-impact role for an editor and manager who wants to lead coverage at the center of environmental and energy policy and regulations, where you'll drive the news when it matters most. We're looking for editors with strong news judgment, top editing skills, and a passion for ambitious journalism.

You'll direct breaking news and enterprise journalism that’s essential for legal, tax, government, and business audiences. Come help guide a talented team of Bloomberg Industry Group reporters to tell the biggest stories at federal agencies and the policy battles that surround them in courts, Congress, and elsewhere.

What will you do:

• Be a newsroom leader. Yes we produce great journalism, but what makes it possible is our culture and our people. Your job is strengthening both.
• Make sure your reporters and editors are laser-focused on breaking news, moving with intention, and fulfilling their full potential. That means setting goals and targets, coaching, and removing barriers from producing the best stories possible.

You need to have:

• Exceptional curiosity and news judgment to choose the right areas for coverage and set the team’s agenda, from daily coverage to longer term targets.
• Top-notch editing skills and the ability to make a story shine, provide constructive feedback, and help editors communicate in a similar way. Ability to know what our readers need and what coverage will resonate.
• Be highly collaborative and show the ability to manage change, influence others in the newsroom, and communicate with reporters and editors of various backgrounds and experience levels.
• The ability and courage to make tough decisions in the moment as news breaks, learn from mistakes, and adjust as needed. Plan for the future and lay the groundwork for what will be needed weeks, months, or even years down the road.
• Be a self-starter who sets high standards and leads by personal example. You will need to think big and challenge your team to do the same.
• A bachelor’s degree is required.
• Seven-or-more years of experience in journalism, with demonstrated success producing excellent and ambitious stories

Compensation Range:

$125,000.00-$155,000.00

Placement in the salary range will be decided upon completion of the interview process. Salary determination will be determined based on factors including but not limited to relevant experience, demonstrated skills related to the requirements of the role, education, certifications, and geographic location.

Equal Opportunity

Bloomberg Industry Group maintains a continuing policy of non-discrimination in employment. It is Bloomberg Industry Group’s policy to provide equal opportunity and access for all persons, and the Company is committed to attracting, retaining, developing, and promoting the most qualified individuals without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or maternity/parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law (“Protected Characteristic”). Bloomberg prohibits treating applicants or employees less favorably in connection with the terms and conditions of employment, in all phases of the employment process, because of one or more Protected Characteristics (“Discrimination”).