Newsletters Producer

Location

Toronto, ON | Canada

Job description

The Toronto Star is Canada’s largest daily newspaper and is read in print and across desktop, mobile and tablet platforms by more than 6 million readers every week. Online, thestar.com is one of the most-visited newspaper websites in Canada.

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Applications accepted until Mon., March 4 at 5 p.m. 

The Toronto Star has a vacancy for a Full time Digital Producer in the Editorial Department. The role will be focused on newsletters as part of the Digital team.

Email newsletters are a pillar of our digital subscription business. In this role, you’d handle most of the Toronto Star’s newsletters and help improve those you don’t handle yourself. You’d work with our small dedicated Newsletters team figuring out how to best serve an audience that keeps growing, and a larger team within the newsroom that creates, packages, enhances and promotes Star journalism so that it makes a meaningful impact on our community and beyond, whether on thestar.com, our newsletters, mobile app, social media or other platforms, both existing and emerging.

The ideal candidate would be a gifted diplomat and experienced digital editor, as skilled at working with copy and CMSes as they are with people. You’d have high but realistic standards and be determined to get the best from the reporters, columnists and editors who produce work on this platform, and you’d push to keep raising that bar.  You work quickly, thoughtfully and collaboratively. 

The job entails:

• Handling daily production of either our early-morning or late-evening daily newsletters
• Handling production for all of the Star’s five weekly written newsletters and headline newsletters
• Helping those who handle any newsletters you don’t do yourself (e.g. weekend editions of our morning newsletter) and finding ways to keep improving them
• Growing engagement across all the newsletters you’re responsible for, especially the traffic those newsletters generate
• Helping develop new pop-up and permanent newsletters and handling upon launch as needed
• Other duties as assigned
• Upholding the core values of the Toronto Star and the Atkinson principles.

• Several years of relevant experience, ideally in digital production and/or editing in a newsroom
• Awareness of the Star’s coverage areas, especially local, regional and national news in Toronto and beyond
• Superb news judgement

If interested, please apply with a resume and cover letter.

This is a notice of vacancy under Article 8 of collective agreement between Toronto Star Newspapers Limited and Unifor Local 87M. The hours of work for this position will vary according to the assignment, but will all conform to a standard 35-hour work week as described under the collective agreement.

AODA
Torstar Group of Companies is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process ensuring equal access to employment opportunities for candidates, including persons with disabilities. In compliance with Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and Ontario Human Rights Code we will endeavour to provide accommodation to persons with disabilities in the recruitment process upon request. If you are selected for an interview and you require accommodation due to a disability during the recruitment process, please notify the hiring manager upon scheduling the interview of your requirements.

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