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 identify coverage opportunities that enhance reach and engagement.
  • Skilled in data interpretation and presentation across platforms.
  • Experience collaborating with Search, Social, Home, Community, Notifications, and Newsletter teams.
  • Effective communicator with a focus on audience performance updates.
  • Proficient in writing and coaching platform-native social copy.
  • Committed to journalistic independence and aligning decisions with mission.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver actionable audience insights to guide editorial coverage.
  • Suggest stories and formats based on data-driven audience demand.
  • Interpret audience signals for optimal presentation across platforms.
  • Collaborate with Product teams to enhance content distribution.
  • Align desk plans with audience goals to drive engagement and habits.
  • Coordinate content packaging across various teams for broad distribution.
  • Provide regular audience insights to enhance desk strategies.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work at CNN, influencing editorial decision-making through data.
  • Collaboration with a diverse range of teams and disciplines.
  • Engagement in ongoing learning and experimentation within a fast-paced environment.
  • Contribution to maintaining journalistic integrity and independence.
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, off-platform 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 on- and off-platformpresentation.

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

  • Clear, action-oriented communicator whocontributes regularlyto audience performance updates.

  • Ability to write and coach platform-native social copy.

  • Committed to journalistic independence and mission-aligned 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

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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