Job Description
OVERVIEW
As a Business News Editor, you will lead and manage a team of reporters covering some of the most dynamic and impactful beats in global business: technology, energy, general business news, and careers/workplace trends. With strong news judgment, you will steer coverage that resonates with a global business audience and supports a growing, subscription-focused strategy—prioritizing distinctive, high-value journalism that drives loyalty and repeat engagement.
This role also carries a strong audience and distribution focus, ensuring that CNBC’s journalism not only breaks news but also reaches and engages audiences where they are, across platforms and formats, with an emphasis on converting and retaining subscribers. You will be a steady, reliable leader, guiding the team through both breaking news and in-depth feature coverage.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead coverage across tech, general business news, and careers/workplace beats, shaping stories that set the agenda for a global business audience.
Manage and mentor reporters, providing editorial guidance, feedback, and career development support.
Maintain high editorial standards, ensuring accuracy, balance, and compliance with CNBC’s guidelines.
Audience & Engagement Responsibilities
Assist in curating, editing, and publishing content across social platforms (Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, etc.), ensuring posts are accurate, engaging, and consistent with CNBC’s editorial voice.
Edit and repackage stories for different formats (social threads, SEO-optimized headlines, vertical video, etc.).
Qualifications
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS
Extensive knowledge of CNBC’s editorial and programming priorities, with a strong interest in financial markets, economics, technology, and politics.
Strong understanding of US and APAC companies, major technology trends, energy, broader business news, and workplace and career trends. Last bullet can be deleted.
Proven capability to perform full and substantive edits under tight deadlines, including reworking leads, refining story angles, ensuring editorial balance, and restructuring content to enhance relevance and appeal for CNBC’s readers.
Expertise in writing sharp, compelling headlines and copy editing/proofreading, with a keen eye for identifying and correcting errors, typos, and inconsistencies.
DESIRED ATTRIBUTES
While not essential for this role, candidates with experience or proficiency in the following attributes tend to excel in this position.
The responsibilities associated with this position are not limited to the above description and may be modified at any time by the Company.