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Posting Description

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, EDITORIAL CONTENT, Sloan Initiative on the Digital Economy, to develop a strategic plan and write blogs and other content that reflects and analyzes the work, ideas, and insights of MIT IDE leaders and affiliates to stakeholders, members, and global business leaders. Responsibilities include overseeing the IDE website (WordPress), Medium publication, and editorial calendar, publishing news articles in a timely, frequent, and strategic manner; writing and editing for these sites using appropriate CMS; maintaining a consistent style and ensuring all work is accurate, proofed, and approved before publication; playing an active role in determining the visual identity of articles, reports, and assets; independently developing content ideas and initiating new products; and attending conferences, seminars, and other in-person events for news value, developing sources, and identifying content ideas.

A full job description is available at https://web.mit.edu/sloan-hr/jobs/IDEEditorialDirector.pdf

Job Requirements

REQUIRED: Bachelors degree in journalism, communications, media studies, or another relevant field; a minimum of five years progressive experience in journalism, writing, content marketing, and communications; significant experience with editorial journalistic standards and ethics; experience editing or creating business, science, or technology content in a news or editorial environment; experience writing for digital platforms and with social media distribution in mind; experience assigning and editing staff and/or freelance writers; experience writing, interpreting, and editing business, management, technology, and finance news about complex business topics (particularly AI and digital technologies) for a business audience; experience packaging news for digital consumption (explainers, lists, data journalism, etc.); experience developing and harnessing sources among busy professionals, including C-level executives, academics, entrepreneurs, researchers, and scientists; and curiosity in interviewing subject matter experts about their cutting-edge work.

The application deadline is 8/12/2025.

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