Audience Engagement Specialist - Chicago - Chicago Sun-Times

    Chicago Sun-Times
    Chicago Sun-Times Chicago

    4 days ago

    Description
    About Chicago Public Media
    Chicago Public Media is one of the nation's largest local nonprofit news organizations. Home to WBEZ 91.5FM, the Chicago Sun-Times, and Vocalo. Chicago Public Media reaches more than 3.3 million people weekly across broadcast, print, and digital platforms. As a mission-driven organization, we aspire to be the most trusted news source Chicagoans turn to for understanding the people, events, and ideas shaping our community.
    Chicago Public Media is a 100% community-funded newsroom powered by nearly 97,000 members whose support makes our journalism possible. . This sustained community investment helped drive nationally recognized work in 2025, including 29 awards from esteemed organizations, including the Public Media Journalists Association, the Edward R. Murrow Awards, and the National Association of Black Journalists.
    We believe independent journalism is essential to a healthy democracy and that access to objective, fact-based news is a right for every citizen. We serve the public interest by creating diverse content that informs and enriches our community, supported by a dedicated staff of approximately 250 professionals.
    For more information, please see the Chicago Public Media Annual Report.
    DESCRIPTION
    We are seeking an Audience Engagement Specialist to help grow, reach, and engage our digital audience with an emphasis on building deep relationships with our community, increasing trust, and enhancing loyalty. The ideal candidate should be passionate about journalism and how our reporting can fit into readers' lives to help them better understand the city, their neighbors and themselves. Our next Audience Engagement Specialist should be dynamic, open to learning new tools and platforms, data-driven, and have applied knowledge of journalistic ethics and standards.
    The ideal candidate has a desire to connect Chicago to our award-winning, fact-based, and community centered journalism. We do this by collaborating with editors and reporters to:
    • Reformat reporting for platform specific audiences (e.g., Instagram carousels, aggregate articles, social explainers, newsletters).
    • Connect Chicago to the newsroom by identifying digital engagement opportunities (e.g., Reddit AMAs, TikTok, new platform guidance).
    • Cover trending, live, and breaking news on platforms, and in ways that are most useful to the public (e.g., live blog support, Google Trends review, SMS, App alerts).
    • Enhance in-platform story reach and audience engagement (e.g., headline support, SEO review, in-article modules, recirculation, programming fronts).
    • Surface story ideas, coverage angles and format considerations through audience listening (e.g., social listening, Google Trends, analytics platforms).
    Candidates should have an interest and some understanding of online communities, platform dynamics, and shifting audience behaviors on emerging, established, and owned platforms. Audience duties consist of:
    • Curate home and section pages of the Sun-Times website to showcase the most relevant, timely, and popular content, using data and experimentation.
    • Edit and publish stories following the best practices of SEO, storytelling and audience engagement, optimizing content across multiple platforms to help target audiences find the content they want.
    • SEO and share lines that appropriately reflect our reporting and attract diverse audiences, prioritizing factual accuracy, demonstrating sound judgment and complying with best ethical practices.
    • Conceptualize, plan and create original audience-focused callouts, posts (including Stories, Lives and Reels), projects or campaigns across our platforms - which may include social media, news aggregators, third-party sites (social, Apple News, etc) or owned and operated channels (website, app or newsletters) - to develop our diverse target audiences, working collaboratively with other colleagues and teams.
    • Communicate effectively with other audience team members, journalists and colleagues and help CST reach its organizational goals by improving CST's audience relationships, workplace culture, editorial excellence and impact.
    • Solicit and respond to feedback from our readers on different platforms, helping to deepen our community relationships; demonstrate inclusivity of diverse experiences and perspectives.
    • Consider data, community feedback and other research to develop deeper knowledge of our platforms and audiences; and experiment with different approaches to better reach, engage and serve target audiences, advising and steering editorial efforts to better serve our community.
    • Identify trending and breaking news opportunities, working with editors and reporters to write or aggregate stories that build audiences based on those trends.
    • Manage Sun-Times' social media channels, optimizing for sharing and engagement.
    • Create multimedia content to enhance daily news coverage (i.e., video, graphics, text images, live streams, slideshows, social media embeds) and breaking news alerts.
    • Compile and send emails and/or newsletters as needed to deepen engagement with our audiences.
    SCHEDULE
    The Audience Engagement Specialist must be willing to work midday to evening weekday shifts and evening Friday and Saturday shifts. The shifts could change based on need, but the expectation is to regularly work in the evening and weekend.
    REQUIREMENTS
    • Bachelor's degree in journalism or a related field, or comparable professional experience
    • Available to work flexible hours
    COMPENSATION
    The expected pay range for this position is $55,500 - $63,800 per ANNUM.
    Chicago Public Media provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the organization reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographical location, and external market pay for comparable jobs.
    Working at Chicago Public Media
    At Chicago Public Media, we care deeply about our employees as we know attracting, developing, and growing talent is key to our success and enhancing our impact.
    Our culture is one where collaboration, diversity of ideas, and innovation are encouraged. We value colleagues who will enhance our culture by bringing new ideas, divergent experiences, and talents to our dynamic workplace.
    At Chicago Public Media we believe dedication to a great workplace includes supporting our employees and their families. As a result, we provide a broad and generous benefits package for employees at hire and in the years to come.
    Our benefits include a competitive salary and benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, vacation, holidays, life insurance, disability coverage, retirement savings, and a commuter benefits plan.
    Chicago Public Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we actively seek and welcome people from all backgrounds, orientations, and life experiences to join our team.

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