Job Opening: Senior News Editor for Yahoo! Middle East

05 April 2011
Job Opening: Senior News Editor for Yahoo! Middle East
About Company

Yahoo! is a true web pioneer - founded 16 years ago to help people makes sense of the internet. Today, across the globe, over 630 million people use Yahoo! every month. As the web has expanded we’ve continued to build innovative and imaginative experiences that are uniquely Yahoo! We do it each and every day and you could too. Now’s the time to show the world what you’ve got. Put your ideas to work and help half a billion people get more from the internet than they every imagined.

Job Description

* Supervise a team of editors to populate Yahoo!’s News pages with its subcategories: business, entertainment and sports… etc with fresh, compelling and relevant content and making sure that our mobile pages offer a matching experience
* Maintain events diary and planning and executing event programming in consultation with producers and editors within the region.
* Making relevant editorial choices, crafting appealing headlines and teaser copy, choosing and prepare appropriate imagery.
* Creat user experiences which encourage repeat use and adoption
* Understanding the Yahoo! audience, and its interests, and feeding these back into product plans and tactics
* Manage competing priorities, budgeting time
* Providing editorial support where required, particularly on ancillary or support service pages and instructional content
* Contribute ideas to the content and product development process
* Contribute ideas on commissioning and content acquisition to the managing editor and the business development team.
* Provide and edit articles and content on a daily basis, develop feature and special execution ideas.
* Meet targets and deliver on daily traffic performance indicators
* Work closely with internal sales, product and marketing teams as well as external content partners.
* Identify new content sources and support business development on content acquisition
* Reports to Editor in Chief for Yahoo! Arabic portal.

Apply here.
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