Also called: Audience Growth Editor, SEO Editor
Helps a newsroom's stories reach readers through search, social media, and newsletters.
An engagement editor studies which headlines get clicks, rewrites them for search, schedules social posts, and tells editors what readers are asking about. They live in analytics dashboards.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Journalism or communications degree.
Ways in: 4-year college. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Journalism, Communications.
Growing about average. Steady in digital newsrooms.
Medium risk in 5 years, high in 10. AI now writes headlines, optimizes search and schedules social posts, cutting engagement jobs.
Classes: Journalism, Marketing, AP Statistics, English.
Official data: O*NET occupation 27-3041.
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