Your New Role
CNN is looking for a seasoned journalist to join its EMEA headquarters in London and take a leading role in helping to shape the world’s biggest and most important stories at the intersection of business, economics and current affairs. The director is responsible for overseeing CNN’s business coverage in the overnight hours and into the U.S. morning. The ideal candidate is comfortable leading reporters, working across coverage teams on big, globe‑spanning stories and consulting with programming colleagues to ensure coverage priorities are reflected on CNN’s platforms. This role is for an ambitious and creative digital‑first business journalist with outstanding news judgement, excellent communication skills and a passion for news and distinctive enterprise reporting.
Your Role Accountabilities
- Leading the business news agenda during EMEA hours and overseeing editorial in all formats on all of CNN’s platforms, with a focus on business, markets, tech, media and economy coverage, and an eye for emerging regional trends.
- Setting up the morning for CNN’s US audience, advancing overnight stories and ensuring that essential business content greets US readers and subscribers as they wake up.
- Commissioning, framing, editing and writing editorial content for all of CNN’s platforms, including breaking news, analysis and distinctive enterprise journalism; working across formats like digital text, video, and visuals.
- Working closely with correspondents, editors and stakeholders across the world on multi‑region and multi‑platform projects.
- Ensuring all journalism produced adheres to CNN standards and integrity.
- Managing at least one business reporter on the EMEA newsdesk.
- Working as part of a global 24/7 digital‑first cross‑platform team, providing a key editorial link between CNN’s APAC and US operations.
- Working occasional weekends and evenings.
Skills & Qualifications
- Minimum 8 years of business news editing and/or writing experience for leading digital‑first news outlets, with a proven track record in high‑pressure, breaking news environments.
- Superior news judgement with the ability to think in headlines and frame complex business stories for a global audience, specifically the US morning market.
- Experience conceiving and producing distinctive enterprise journalism, identifying unique reporting opportunities and/or investigative works.
- Enthusiasm, flexibility and a desire to foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment.
- Exceptional writing skills, editing skills, news judgement and an obsession with precision.
- Strong desire to experiment with storytelling formats and to think creatively about how to serve a multiplatform audience.
- Exceptional planning and organisational skills with a demonstrable track record of executing detailed digital‑first coverage plans.
- Perfect grasp of written and spoken English.
Hybrid Working
This role is advertised as a hybrid work model, combining remote and in‑office work, following WBD’s current company policy and to be agreed with your line manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your line manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where it is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.
Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. As an equal‑opportunity employer, we consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law. If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.
