Job Description

The St. Paul Pioneer Press/twincities.com is hiring a Deputy Editor for Local News. This is one of our top newsroom management positions with broad leadership responsibilities and potential for advancement.

The person in this role here will:

Lead: Our smart, talented, experienced local news team at Minnesota's oldest daily newspaper in the state capital of St. Paul on the Mississippi, in a diverse, literate, beautiful metro area distinguished by its hunger for news, its diversified economy, multitude of higher-education, arts and sports institutions, by its abundance of outdoors opportunities, civic involvement and hard work.

Lead: With hands on, head up, honesty, integrity and unflagging belief in what's possible when we put our minds and muscles to it

Develop: Strategies, skills, relationships and practices that keep us connected with audiences we have and connect us with those we want

Compete: With extra curiosity, extra persistence, extra regard for the people of our communities, with relentless commitment to questions and tools and tactics that make our journalism distinct -- and distinctly valuable.

Learn: By doing, by data, by giving good ideas a go, by leading and participating in projects at the intersection of our needs and your interests, by involving yourself with our community to understand how best we will deliver journalism people will pay for.

Grow: Toward your own goals and potential, on the strength of your strengths, under the pressure of competition, disruption and the challenge of freedom to meet it.

If this sounds right to you, and you have strong, effective and innovative daily news and supervisory experience, let's talk. Salary is negotiable.