Global Audience Editor, Reuters

Overview

As Global Audience Editor, you drive Reuters’ audience growth and engagement across newsletters, social, search, and community initiatives. You’ll partner with editors, visuals, product, and newsroom leaders to shape coverage for digital audiences while upholding Reuters’ journalistic standards. The role blends editorial judgment with audience analytics to inform strategy and optimize reader relationships. You’ll lead a global team and steer initiatives like Reuters NEXT to deepen loyalty and transform audience experiences.

Pay / Benefits

• Global career opportunities
• Learning & Development programs
• Competitive salary and benefits
• Paid volunteering days
• Opportunity to work with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists

Responsibilities

• Lead and unify Reuters’ audience development strategy across social media, newsletters, search, community and insights to drive sustainable growth and engagement
• Build trusted newsroom partnerships to embed audience considerations into coverage plans and digital storytelling
• Use audience data and performance insights to inform editorial decisions and advise on platform strategy
• Manage and develop a global team of editors, strategists and platform specialists
• Oversee newsletter strategy, optimization and segmentation and shape community engagement around major coverage and events (Reuters NEXT)
• Collaborate across editorial, product, visuals, video, audio and commercial teams to create cohesive audience experiences
• Lead SEO strategy in the AI era and explore emerging platforms and formats while safeguarding standards

Key requirements

• Significant experience leading audience, digital or editorial teams within a major newsroom or media organization
• Deep knowledge of social platforms, newsletters, SEO and audience analytics, with understanding of subscriptions and reader engagement
• Ability to use audience data and performance insights to guide editorial strategy and newsroom decisions
• Excellent news judgment and commitment to Reuters’ standards and journalistic values
• Proven ability to lead global teams, collaborate across time zones and influence stakeholders in a complex newsroom

• collaborative mindset
• strategic thinking
• stakeholder management
• audience analytics
• SEO
• newsletter optimization

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