Deputy Editor

About the Job:

The Banner seeks a Deputy Editor to serve as the newsroom’s second-in-command and a key manager of our journalistic, cultural and operational success. The Deputy Editor will help lead news-reporting desks for one of the nation’s most exciting and ambitious nonprofit media organizations, ensuring that this Pulitzer-winning newsroom continues to produce impactful, sustainable and urgent news.

This editor knows a good story. Excellent news judgment and editing ability are a must. The Deputy Editor lives and breathes local news and believes that kind and effective management is a necessary ingredient for impactful journalism. The right candidate has a lifelong passion for fair and independent journalism that corrects wrongs, delights readers, and earns non-traditional news consumers. A desire to experiment and occasionally fail is a must. The Deputy Editor will play a central role in cementing The Banner as Maryland’s No. 1 news source, ensuring that our daily journalism aligns with long-term audience goals. This position is designed for a experienced editor with the desire and potential to grow into executive leadership. The role reports to the Editor in Chief.

What You’ll Do:

• Operationalize the strategic vision for covering news in one of America’s most diverse and interesting cities by emphasizing impactful enterprise reporting, urgent breaking news and must-have service journalism


• Articulate coverage priorities and how they align with newsroom goals for growing audiences and producing journalism that matters to people in Maryland


• Initiate and organize long-range planning on critical topics with creativity and precision


• Ensure that employees are being managed with respect and kindness, and play a key role in helping to develop career pathways for successful employees


• Proactively develop future leaders, mentoring and coaching staff


• Help recruit, train and develop a diverse team of journalists


• Embrace and model a change-positive and business-savvy culture that puts excellent journalism and audience service at the forefront of what we produce


• Serve as the 2 to the editor in chief and occasionally represent The Banner at public events

What You’ll Bring:

• 15 years of experience managing and inspiring other journalists, particularly other editors


• Impeccable journalistic integrity, editorial judgement and text-editing skills


• Demonstrated track record overseeing and editing impactful investigative stories


• Modern understanding of digital journalism, including applicable metrics, off-platform strategies and audience-engagement techniques


• Ability to manage several projects concurrently and communicate across multiple divisions while keeping senior management informed of any potential issues


• Crystal clear communication skills, both oral and written


• An entrepreneurial and collaborative spirit with coworkers inside the newsroom, in other departments and external partners


• Experience quickly and clearly setting coverage priorities to respond to the news


• Demonstrated commitment and ability to contribute an equity lens to every aspect of people management and news coverage


• Willingness to live in or relocate to Baltimore City, or the counties of Baltimore, Howard and Anne Arundel

Salary Range: $190,000 - $230,000 Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by several factors including experience, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We constantly review all teammate pay to ensure a great compensation package that is fair and equal across the board.

Our amazing benefits include:

• Flexible Paid Time Off


• Retirement savings - 401K plan offered through Human Interest, with a company match


• Student Loan Debt Repayment Assistance for qualified employees


• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HSA., and coverage for family/dependents


• Sick Leave eligible for rollover 


• Commuter Benefits


• 11 Paid National Holidays


• Employee Assistance Program


• Generous Parental Leave


• Company paid access to a wellness platform to support mental, financial and physical wellbeing

Application Submission:

Please include a cover letter and résumé. In your cover letter, please highlight how your career experience maps to this role.

Our Core Values:

• Do what’s right. Honesty, morality, respect and the mission guide our actions and decisions. By doing the right thing, we inspire others to believe.


• Work together. We collaborate to create something special. Together we challenge assumptions, trust each other, take risks, and foster transparent and direct communication.


• Listen to be heard. Our stories are trustworthy. They are inspired by and created for our readers. Their story is our story. Communities are at the center of our journalism, and everything we do.


• Deliver impactful results. Acting as one accountable team and driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, we deliver bold and innovative results. We act fast, execute and learn. We celebrate great outcomes.


• Be inclusive. We celebrate the uniqueness of each individual and act by curating a culture that leverages diverse perspectives as the key to fulfilling our mission. The Banner is for all of us.

 The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism embraces diversity and inclusion, and we are wholeheartedly committed to being proactive in inspiring a culture of inclusion across our organization. We are dedicated to establishing an organization that reflects the fundamental respect for different ways of working and living, and we assure every employee the opportunity to reach their full potential.

We are dedicated to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. If you require accommodation due to a disability to participate in the application process, please contact [email protected] to request accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may include, but are not limited to, adjustments in the application process, modifications or assistance regarding job interviews, and accommodations to enable access to our facilities. We appreciate the value that individuals with disabilities bring to our workforce and encourage applicants with disabilities to disclose their needs for accommodation to facilitate a smooth and inclusive recruitment experience.