Editor-in-Chief at GK Media Group | Lens
Editor in Chief
Founding pillar of the Lens newsroom. New York. Equity. Full-time.
Lens is building credibility infrastructure for the information economy. Our core product is the Information Quality Standard — the IQS — a transparent, auditable article-level credibility score. A nutritional label for information. Bloomberg built the terminal for finance. Moody’s built it for credit. We are building it for information.
Pre-seed closed in March. Looking to close a $5M seed this month. A lean, mission-driven team. The product is being built. The standard is what comes next.
The role
You will build, lead, and operate the Lens newsroom. Five specialized desks. Every article scored by the IQS before it ships, and every article a proof of what proper journalism should look like.
This is not an editorial seat at a publication. The newsroom is the proving ground for a credibility standard the rest of the industry will eventually license. You are setting the bar for the industry.
What you own
The standard. Every desk, every byline, every dimension the IQS measures — funding and conflicts, sourcing, framing, omission, tone. You codify how Lens reports, and that codification becomes a public methodology.
The newsroom. Hiring and developing desk leads across the seven verticals. Building the rhythm of a 24/7 operation that publishes against the score, not against the clock.
The integration. The IQS is not a post-hoc grader. It runs inside the editorial workflow. You design that workflow with our engineering and expert panel — pre-publication scoring, revision loops, transparent disclosure.
The voice. Lens does not write like anyone else. You enforce that.
Who you are
You have run a newsroom or a major desk. You have hired, fired, and shipped under pressure. Resumes that read as managerial do not interest us — we want the people who actually built the room.
You think in systems, not stories. A workflow that scores ten thousand articles is a different animal than a workflow that ships ten, and you are wired for the former.
You have an unresolved problem with how media currently works. Not a complaint — a position. You have thought about it longer than most people you know.
What this is not
Equity-only at this stage. Founding team. Salary on close of the seed. If a title and a paycheck are the entry point of the conversation, this is not the role.
We are building infrastructure that will outlast every one of us. The bar is high on purpose.
To apply
Send three pieces of work you stand behind and a paragraph on what is wrong with the current information environment. A cover letter is appreciated. jamesknurbein@lens.cx.