WBEZ-FM 91.5

Editor

• Develop and lead a unified editorial strategy that centers community and audience growth, community engagement, and multiplatform publishing across Chicago Public Media.
• Oversee the newsroom's Audience, Engaged Journalism, and Platforms teams, ensuring strong collaboration across editorial, product, technology, membership, and marketing.
• Lead editorial strategy across newsletters, social media, audience engagement, community initiatives, print production, photography, video, interactive storytelling, and emerging platforms.
• Use audience insights, analytics, and community feedback to inform editorial priorities, distribution strategies, and newsroom planning.
• Establish workflows and editorial standards that support efficient, audience-first publishing across all platforms while improving collaboration between teams.
• Partner with newsroom leadership to shape platform coverage strategies for breaking news, enterprise reporting, special projects, and organizational priorities.
• Lead platform innovation initiatives, including new storytelling formats, workflow improvements, and investments in emerging audience opportunities.
• Build and mentor a high-performing leadership team while fostering a culture of experimentation, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Work with newsroom leaders to identify operational efficiencies, optimize platform investments, and support long-term organizational sustainability.

Managing Editor – Communities, Platforms

Data Analyst

• Lead advanced data analysis and modeling projects that connect audience behavior, editorial engagement, product experiences, and membership outcomes.
• Partner closely with teams across the organization to define high-value questions, identify meaningful metrics, and translate findings into action items.
• Help editorial teams understand audience behavior in ways that are useful, responsible, and grounded in journalistic goals, distinguishing between surface-level traffic and deeper signals of loyalty, habit, trust, and audience value.
• Build and improve predictive models, audience scores, segmentations, forecasts, and cohort analyses that help teams better understand behavior across the audience funnel and long-term audience value.
• Support a stronger experimentation and measurement culture by advising on test design, evaluating results, and applying statistical methods such as causal inference where appropriate.
• Develop reusable datasets and workflows that make advanced insights easier to apply across teams.
• Translate model outputs and statistical findings into clear recommendations and tools.
• Identify opportunities where more sophisticated analysis, modeling, or data science methods can improve decision making and organizational outcomes.

Senior Data Analyst – Advanced Analytics

• Partner with the EIC to implement editorial strategy and standards.
• Oversee daily newsroom operations, including coverage planning and cross-desk coordination.
• Foster collaboration between newspaper, radio, digital, and visual teams.
• Lead newsroom culture and professional development with a focus on inclusion and excellence.
• Manage logistics, project timelines, and newsroom-wide initiatives such as special investigations and election coverage.

Managing Editor – Communities, Platforms

Senior Data Analyst – Advanced Analytics

Managing Editor, News