[Hiring] Editor @Banijay Americas

Role Description

We are looking for an ambitious, entrepreneurial Editor to lead the next phase of The Blast. This is an outstanding opportunity for a high-performing Deputy Editor, Senior Content Editor, News Editor, Audience Editor, Senior Journalist, or Content Lead who is ready to run a digital publication. The successful candidate will define what The Blast should become, develop the editorial strategy to get there, and lead the team in delivering it. You will combine excellent news judgement with a deep understanding of digital audiences, data, search, social platforms, and the pace of entertainment journalism.

Reporting to senior management, the Editor will own the editorial direction, daily performance, and longer-term growth strategy for The Blast. Key responsibilities include:

• Develop and implement an editorial and content strategy that grows audience, engagement, reach, loyalty, and brand recognition.
• Establish a distinctive editorial voice and identify the stories, formats, franchises, and verticals that The Blast can own.
• Lead the daily news agenda, ensuring fast, intelligent coverage of breaking celebrity and entertainment stories.
• Build a balanced content mix across breaking news, exclusives, original reporting, interviews, features, viral and social-led stories, and evergreen opportunities.
• Increase the proportion and impact of original journalism through repeatable formats, exclusives, and editorial franchises.
• Use audience data and competitive intelligence to improve commissioning, headlines, story selection, publishing cadence, and distribution.
• Develop acquisition plans across Search, Discover, social media, referrals, newsletters, direct traffic, and emerging platforms.
• Manage, motivate, and develop writers and contributors; set clear standards for accuracy, sourcing, quality, speed, tone, and performance.
• Work closely with SEO, audience development, social, commercial, and product colleagues so editorial growth supports the wider business.
• Set KPIs, report regularly on performance, and test new formats, platforms, and audience propositions.

Qualifications

• A track record of developing or materially contributing to successful content and audience strategies.
• Evidence that your editorial decisions have delivered measurable gains in traffic, engagement, search visibility, social reach, returning readership, or brand recognition.
• Strong working knowledge of SEO, Google Discover, social distribution, analytics, and the changing digital publishing landscape.
• Experience commissioning and editing writers, alongside excellent headline-writing and story-packaging skills.
• The ability to turn data into clear editorial decisions without losing creativity, editorial standards, or audience instinct.
• A practical interest in using AI and emerging technology to improve workflows and audience intelligence, with appropriate editorial oversight.
• Energy, resilience, accountability, and a genuine desire to build a distinctive entertainment brand.

How to Apply

Please send your CV and a short covering note explaining why you are the right person to lead The Blast’s next stage of growth. Include two or three examples of editorial or content initiatives you have led or contributed to, setting out the challenge, your role, the strategy, and the measurable impact achieved. Shortlisted candidates should be prepared to discuss their initial view of how they would differentiate and grow The Blast over the next 12–24 months.