Senior Editor, Visuals, CNN

Senior Editor – Visuals

CNN’s global Visuals team is seeking a senior editor to lead visual journalism during critical late‑day and evening news hours. This editorial leadership and people‑management role will guide breaking‑news coverage, shape enterprise projects, and help teams produce clear, accurate, and distinctive storytelling across formats.
Accountabilities

Set editorial priorities for the Visuals team during late‑day and evening news hours, ensuring strong communication and handoffs across time zones.
Anticipate breaking‑news coverage needs and lead visual responses across a wide variety of scenarios.
Assign and edit graphics, maps, visual stories, interactives, annotations, and other formats for breaking news, daily coverage, and medium‑ to long‑term enterprise projects.
Edit visual and data‑driven stories, including graphics and text, ensuring clear framing, strong reporting, and journalism‑first execution.
Review story structure, design, data analysis, visualizations, and interactive storytelling to ensure they meet rigorous editorial and design standards.
Identify visual opportunities across CNN’s coverage and work proactively with editors and reporters on other desks to develop strong approaches.
Lead major projects in partnership with multiple teams and stakeholders, establishing clear expectations, timelines, and decision‑making processes.
Collaborate with platform and distribution teams to strengthen the framing and packaging of visual stories across home screens, apps, and off‑platform channels.
Maintain an organized view of assignments, priorities, and handoffs for global coverage.
Manage, mentor, and support a group of visual journalists, providing thoughtful feedback and helping teammates develop their skills and careers.
Refine workflows, document processes, and contribute to a collaborative culture of experimentation and skill‑sharing.
Apply audience insights to help shape story ideas, formats, and approaches that resonate with CNN’s audiences.
Qualifications & Experience

At least 7 years of experience in a newsroom or comparable editorial environment, including visual or data‑driven journalism editing.
Experience managing visual journalists and supporting their day‑to‑day work, long‑term development, and career growth.
Impeccable news judgment and the ability to lead calmly and decisively during breaking news.
Proven ability to edit both visual storytelling and text from early framing to final publication.
Strong visual judgment and experience reviewing story design, data visualization, interactives, maps, and other graphics formats.
A track record of identifying strong story ideas and pushing storytelling beyond obvious or incremental approaches.
Strong representative of the Visuals team within a wider organization, building positive cross‑team relationships.
Experience editing or leading election coverage, including familiarity with election results, political data, and map‑driven storytelling (strongly preferred).
Excellent communication skills and comfort working with senior newsroom leaders, reporters, editors, designers, data journalists, and developers.
Experience balancing fast‑turn breaking news coverage with medium‑ and long‑term enterprise projects.
A reader‑first perspective and strong commitment to clarity, accuracy, and multiplatform storytelling.
Familiarity with modern data, mapping, design and visualization tools (helpful, but deep technical expertise is not required).
Curiosity and openness to experimenting with new storytelling formats, platforms, and emerging technologies.
Compensation & Benefits

Pay Range:

$79,800.00 – $148,199.00 per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short‑ and long‑term incentives, and program‑specific awards.
Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time, and vacation.
Equal Opportunity Statement

We are an equal‑pay, equal‑opportunity employer. We take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law. If a qualified candidate with a disability requires adjustments or accommodations during the job application or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request. In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. If you’re a qualified candidate with an arrest or conviction record, your application will be considered in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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