Division: Global News Toronto
Work Status: Full-Time
Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite)
About the Role:
Globalnews.ca is looking for a full-time Online Supervisor based in Toronto to join its team.
Reporting to the Managing Editor for Local Coverage, the successful candidate will both report stories and help oversee a dynamic group while creating top-quality content daily.
They will require a strong communication and organizational skills and must be able to move efficiently and responsibly through a sizeable volume of stories coming from markets across the country.
They will also show a track record for reporting news hits.
A demonstrable enthusiasm and curiosity for local stories is a must, as is a passion for mentoring younger reporters.
The successful candidate will have at least 5-7 years of journalistic experience as an editor, reporter or preferably both.
This is a Group 5 position under the current collective agreement.
This position will oversee the latter part of the daily news cycle and will provide some work-from-home flexibility.
You will contribute by:
- Encouraging, directing, and overseeing the production and promotion of compelling online content.
- Communicating, teaching, tracking and model Global News’ best practices in digital journalism.
- Mentoring newer employees in best journalism and online practices including but not limited to CP Style and Global News Journalistic Principles and Practices.
- Writing, posting and promoting online content.
- Champion online coverage at meetings and throughout the day to ensure digital platforms are prioritized.
- Report on top-performing content to help inform editorial decisions for all publishing platforms.
- Developing and execute strategies to grow and engage our audience on globalnews.ca and social media.
- Monitor real-time site performance and work with online staff to optimize.
- Working with managing editors, news directors and others to implement a flexible workflow that supports multi-platform content production.
- Working with managing editors and administrative support staff to schedule online journalists, ensuring region-wide coverage seven days a week.
- Maintaining regular contact with fellow Global News digital leaders and communicating key changes and improvements to staff and managers.
- Participating in planning special news, community and marketing events and projects.
- Support marketing with online and social efforts, as required.
- Ensuring all online stories are vetted for content, grammar and style.
- Work with managing editors to improve your own and your team’s writing skills.
- Ensuring local and wire content is posted and promoted in a timely fashion.
- Oversee access to official accounts on social networks.
- Ensure content is promoted optimally.
- Overseeing viewer relations on social media.
- Resolve and respond to website user complaints and feedback.
Skills and experience you bring:
- Post-secondary education in journalism, communications or a related field
- Minimum of 7 years’ experience in a major market print or online role.
- Experience supervising or leading a team is required.
- Editing experience is required.
- Proficient in social media including but not limited to Snapchat and Instagram.
- Must have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work independently, effectively, and cooperatively in a team environment.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Punctuality and promptness is required.
- Successful candidate must be able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- A positive, can-do attitude is essential.
Application Deadline: November 6, 2026
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Skills Required
- Post-secondary education in journalism, communications, or a related field
- At least 7 years of experience in a major-market print or online journalism role
- Experience supervising or leading a team
- Editing experience
- Proficiency with social media, including Snapchat and Instagram
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Punctuality and promptness
- Positive, can-do attitude
What We Do
Corus is Canada’s leading pure play media and content company, developing and delivering high-quality content and brands across platforms for audiences around the world. Engaging audiences since 1999, the company’s portfolio of multimedia offerings encompass 35 specialty television services, 39 radio stations, 15 conventional television stations, a suite of digital assets, animation software, technology and media services. Corus’ roster of premium brands includes Global Television, W Network, HGTV Canada, Food Network Canada, HISTORY®, Showcase, Adult Swim, National Geographic, Disney Channel Canada, YTV, Global News, Globalnews.ca, Q107, Country 105, and CFOX. Corus is an established creator of globally distributed content through Nelvana animation studio, Corus Studios, and children’s book publishing house Kids Can Press. Nelvana is a world-leading international producer and distributor of children’s animated and live-action content with a stable of globally renowned brands that focus on comedies, preschool and boys action series and ancillary consumer products programs. Established in 2015, Corus Studios is a premium content studio that develops, produces and distributes a wide array of original lifestyle, unscripted and factual content globally. Toon Boom Animation’s award-winning software is the global standard for 2D animation and storyboarding providing the artistic freedom to create in any style and efficiently publish anywhere. Kids Can Press is the largest Canadian-owned children’s publisher with a catalog of over 700 picture books, nonfiction and fiction titles for children and young adults. Corus also owns innovative full-service social digital agency so.da, and in 2019, extended its reach to millennials through new and ongoing partnerships with Complex and Twitter, expansion into short-form content with so.da originals and the acquisition of Kin.
