Senior Newsletter Editor

Senior Newsletter Editor

The senior newsletter editor is responsible for daily editing and long-term planning and strategic development of a new flagship evening newsletter. Additionally, the senior editor will partner with coverage leaders around the newsroom to develop and execute newsletter strategies that align with their content strategies. The role will also work with newsletter team leadership to set strategies and initiatives that support the goals of the larger Audience organization.

• Edit a new daily evening flagship that delves deeper into the day’s most important or compelling news, with a conversational yet journalistically rigorous approach that upholds CNN’s editorial standards.
• Work with the newsletter writer and team leadership to set and execute strategic goals for the newsletter that align with the audience organization’s mission.
• Partner with assigned coverage teams to own their newsletter portfolios: evaluating and optimizing performance of existing newsletters; ensuring adherence to best practices; proactively identifying opportunities for experiments and tests; and actively suggesting new ideas for concepts, content, and form. Establish regular touchpoints with assigned coverage leaders to review performance and trends.
• Work with news and audience leaders to identify new topics/audience segments to target with newsletters.
• Take the lead on identifying and executing tactics that support strategic goals aligned with the audience team mission.
• Lead launches of new newsletters, working with product, analytics, marketing, legal, design, distribution operations, and off‑platform.
• Collaborate with colleagues on other Audience teams that partner with the same newsroom groups (Off‑Platform, Audience Development) to share knowledge on trends and performance.
• Write, edit, produce, and send newsletters as needed.
• Regularly pitch new ideas for newsletter products to team leadership.

• 5-7 years of relevant experience, including writing or editing on a daily deadline.
• A copy editor’s eye for style and formatting errors. Fact‑checking experience is a plus.
• Fluency in newsletter best practices and email metrics.
• A confident generalist with great news judgment, who can dive deeper into specific coverage areas as needed, identify the day’s most important topics and address them with authority, and generate constant ideas for new products, features, and experiments.
• A strategic thinker who can connect the team’s daily work to the organization’s larger goals.
• A creative thinker who can use data to spot trends, spark new ideas, and generate actionable recommendations.
• A clear communicator and proactive collaborator with endless curiosity about our audiences’ interests and needs.

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, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

Pay Range: $80,500.00 - $ per year. Base pay plus bonuses, short‑ and long‑term incentives, and program‑specific awards. Benefits include health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.