[Hiring] Managing Editor/Senior Journalist @Daily Maverick

Role Description

Do you have an eye for editorial detail and a brain for business reporting? Business Maverick needs a Managing Editor/Senior Journalist!

The Managing Editor of Business Maverick is a linchpin role in the newsroom, instrumental in ensuring the smooth, efficient production of high-quality business news content, leading a team of journalists, and managing strict daily, weekly, and monthly multi-platform outputs. This role drives strategic content alignment with the yearly News Game Plan, balancing editorial excellence with financial sustainability and high ethical standards.

Qualifications

• Extensive writing, reporting, and high-level editorial management experience within a deadline-driven digital news desk environment.
• Proven track record of managing strict multi-platform production schedules, digital newsletters, and complex content workflows.
• Strong narrative editing, fact-checking, and data validation techniques.
• Strong numerical skills.
• Comprehensive knowledge of media law, business economics, and journalistic ethics, with strict adherence to the SA Press Code and Daily Maverick Editorial Policy.
• Intermediate-to-advanced digital literacy, including proficiency with CMS, web analytics, audience metrics, and Google Work Suite.
• Demonstrable experience managing, mentoring, and developing journalists, while maintaining resource efficiency and financial discipline.
• Excellent knowledge of the business environment, key players and industry trends and issues.

Requirements

• Integrity & Critical Thinking: An unwavering commitment to ethical practice and the ability to critically assess complex financial and business information, questioning assumptions and potential biases.
• Proactiveness & Initiative: Demonstrates a self-starting attitude, steering innovative business news formats, visual elements, and strategic beat coverages ahead of market trends.
• Adaptability & Problem-Solving: Flexible in managing changing priorities, breaking macroeconomic events, and evolving technical workflows under tight newsroom deadlines.
• Empathy & Respect: Treats sources, whistleblowers, readers, and newsroom colleagues respectfully and professionally with demonstrated emotional regulation and understanding.
• Collaboration & Communication: Effectively works with internal cross-functional departments (Studio, Tech, Growth, Sales) and communicates clearly, transparently, and respectfully, both verbally and in writing.
• Audience-Centricity: Deep understanding and application of audience analytics, digital consumption trends, and user needs to build reader loyalty and community.