Editor, Audience - News, CNN Digital Products & Services

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.$77K — $143K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in digital journalism, audience or content strategy, or analytics.
  • Strong ability to spot coverage, framing, and format opportunities that drive reach and engagement.
  • Skilled at interpreting data and partnering with analytics to shape presentation.
  • Experience working with Search, Social, Home, Community, Notifications, and Newsletter teams.
  • Clear, action-oriented communicator contributing to audience performance updates.
  • Ability to write and coach platform-native social copy.
  • Committed to journalistic independence and mission-aligned decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver daily/weekly/monthly actionable insights that guide editorial decisions.
  • Suggest story angles and formats based on audience demand and competitive patterns.
  • Interpret audience signals to shape content presentation across platforms.
  • Collaborate with Product and platform teams to identify distribution opportunities.
  • Align desk plans with audience goals to drive engagement and capture learnings.
  • Contribute to audience updates, synthesizing insights for desk reviews.
  • Evaluate growth opportunities and coach best practices for social and search.

Benefits

  • Work in a dynamic media environment focused on audience engagement.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams across digital journalism.
  • Engage with cutting-edge data analytics to inform editorial choices.
Full Job Description

Your New Role

TheAudience Editoris the embedded, deskspecific partner to Audience Strategy & Insights, translating audience signals into clear editorial choices. You will supply the desk with essential performance learnings; shape framing, formats, and distribution to meet audience demand; and collaborate across Search, Social, Home, Newsletters, and Product to maximize reach, habit, and engagement (including among subscribers).

This role sits at the intersection of editorial judgment and evidence—collaborative,rigorous inapproach, and focused on measurable outcomes. You will work closely within our Audience Strategy & Insights operating model and in partnership with DART (Data, Analytics, Research & Testing) to turn insights into action and build repeatable practices the desk can rely on.

Your Role Accountabilities

Performance Insights & Editorial Guidance

  • Deliver concise, actionable daily/weekly/monthly insights that guide coverage decisions and followups.

  • Suggest stories, angles, and formats grounded insearchintent, offplatform behavior, competitive patterns, and audience demand.

  • Interpret quantitative and qualitative signals to shape framing and presentation on platform (site/app, home, article packaging, recirculation) and off platform (search, social, alerts, newsletters).

CrossPlatform Strategy & Collaboration

  • Partner with Product and platform teams (Search, Social, Home, Newsletters) toidentifyopportunities in modules, templates, topic hubs, and alerting.

  • Drive reach, engagement, and habit by aligning desk plans to audience goals and capturing learnings in structured retros and playbooks.

  • Coordinate packaging and distribution across OffPlatform, Distribution, Community, Programming, and Newsletter teams.

Desk Support & Operational Cadence

  • Contribute todaily, weekly, and monthly audience updates, synthesizing insights into desk and section reviews.

  • Evaluate the desk27s presence and strategy across platforms;identifygrowth opportunities in formats and account strategy.

  • Coach the desk on best practices for social, search, and packaging; lead quick tests and document learnings.

  • Optimizefor discoverability via trend identification, audience demand research, evergreen refinement, and intent matching—partnering with Search on best practices.

  • Uphold CNN27s journalistic mission by using data to inform editorial decisions.

Qualifications & Experience

  • 3+ years in digital journalism, audience or content strategy, or analytics.

  • Strong ability to spot coverage, framing, and format opportunities that drive reach and engagement.

  • Skilled at interpreting data and partnering with analytics to shape onand offplatformpresentation.

  • Experience working with Search, Social, Home, Community, Notifications, and Newsletter teams.

  • Clear, actionoriented communicator whocontributes regularlyto audience performance updates.

  • Ability to write and coach platformnative social copy.

  • Committed to journalistic independence and missionaligned decisions.

  • Fluent in search trends, intent shifts, and misinformation dynamics.

  • Deep social platformexpertisewith strong tone and brand stewardship.

  • Strong writing/editing instincts for headlines, display, and framing.

  • Comfortable with testing, iteration, and directionalreads.

  • Skilled at bridging editorial, product, analytics, design, and research.

  • Strong understanding of competitive landscape and attention patterns.

How We Get Things Done

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

About Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is an American video game publisher based in Burbank, California, and part of the newly-formed Global Streaming and Interactive Entertainment unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. WBIE was founded on January 14, 2004 under Warner Bros. and transferred to the Home Entertainment division when that company was formed in October 2005. WBIE manages the wholly owned game development studios TT Games, Rocksteady Studios, NetherRealm Studios, Monolith Productions, WB Games Boston, Avalanche Software, and WB Games Montréal, among others.
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