Executive Editor

Award-Winning Investigative News Publication Seeks Executive Editor

The award-winning investigative news publication Capital & Main is seeking an executive editor to lead its editorial department. The position is based in Los Angeles and offers a great opportunity to join a growing newsroom of passionate, talented journalists.

We are looking for an editor with at least ten years of experience in both investigative and narrative journalism to lead a small team of highly skilled reporters and editors. The most important qualifications for this position are as follows:

• Proven ability to assign and edit a wide range of investigative, news and narrative stories
• A high level of skill in working with and supporting both veteran and younger reporters
• Excellent judgment and discernment with regards to editorial assignments and content
• Knowledge of policy, politics and social movements in both Greater Los Angeles and California
• A strong interest in and commitment to social-impact journalism including coverage of economic inequality and climate change

The executive editor, in collaboration with the publisher, oversees all editorial content for Capital & Main and is responsible for ensuring that the publication produces between 20 and 30 stories a month. This includes news and news analysis, investigative stories, narrative articles, data analysis, interviews and multimedia content. The editor works closely with the management team, staff writers and freelance contributors. Stories are written both by staff reporters and freelance contributors.

As part of the leadership team, the editor should be deeply interested in innovation. The editor helps drive Capital & Main’s strategic initiatives in impact, audience, use of new formats and platforms to reach a broad public.

The executive editor oversees Capital & Main’s editorial standards to ensure independent, transparent news coverage while also partnering with other media outlets and participating in fundraising efforts.

Capital & Main values diversity and offers competitive salaries and excellent benefits. Please send a resume and a cover letter to dfeingold@capitalandmain.com.

For more information please contact Danny Feingold: dfeingold@capitalandmain.com

Capital & Main is an award-winning nonprofit publication that reports from California on the most pressing economic, environmental and social issues of our time. Winner of the 2016 Online Journalist of the Year prize from the Southern California Journalism Awards and a 2017 Best in the West award, Capital & Main has had stories co-published in more than 30 media outlets, from The Atlantic, Time, Reuters, The Guardian and Fast Company to The American Prospect, Grist, Slate and the Daily Beast. Working with top writers, editors and visual artists, we cover income inequality, climate change, the green economy, housing, health care, public education, immigration, race, and criminal justice. Capital & Main is a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization.