About this opportunity
Poynter Institute lists this Editor & General Manager - Salem, VA (24153) Mountain Media, LLC opportunity in salem, Virginia. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Editor & General Manager — Community Newspaper Network
Mountain Media / Virginia Media • West Virginia & Southern Virginia • Full-Time
We publish 19 community newspapers across rural West Virginia and southern Virginia — the kind of papers that are, in many of their counties, the only real journalism left. For decades these titles have covered the city councils, school boards, ball games, and front-porch stories that no regional or national outlet will ever touch. Our readers trust them. Our communities depend on them.
We're looking for a rare person to help lead them: a strong editor who also has the instincts to run a business.
The Opportunity
This role starts in the newsroom and grows into the front office. You'll begin by editing one of our papers while taking on management responsibilities across the network — keeping production on track, supporting our editors and staff, working with our printers and vendors, and helping us grow our digital audience. Over time, the editing hands off and the role becomes a full General Manager position leading the whole operation.
It's a genuine path: editor today, general manager tomorrow, with the pay and responsibility growing as you do.
Who You Are
An experienced editor or journalist who commands respect in a newsroom
Organized, dependable, and comfortable leading people
At ease with budgets and numbers — you can read a P&L and manage a cost
Self-directed: you don't need someone standing over your shoulder
Willing to travel across our WV and southern VA communities
Someone who believes local journalism is worth fighting for
Community or weekly newspaper experience is a strong plus, as is familiarity with newsroom production and digital publishing.
What We Offer
A real leadership path — grow from editor into general manager of a 19-paper network
Starting total compensation in the high $40s, with a defined path to a full General Manager salary
Because we're a small, independent company, we don't administer a group health plan. Instead, we build a health and benefits allowance into your total compensation, so you can choose the marketplace or private plan that fits you best rather than being locked into one company plan — use it for a plan of your own, a spouse's plan, or however suits you.
(PTO, retirement, and any other benefits: fill in per your standard package)
The chance to help shape the future of independent local journalism, not just report it
Direct working relationship with an owner with 50 years in community publishing
Mountain Media, LLC and Virginia Media, Inc. are equal opportunity employers. (Confirm/adjust EEO language per your policy.)
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Worksite address
salem, VA, 24155, US
Who can apply
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