Pro practiceManaging Editor (Digital Publishing) practice interview
Setting digital editorial direction, growing a trusted publication, managing senior editors and balancing audience, quality and commercial goals. Practise the 6 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
A Pro practice interview, on the Pro plan from ₦5,000 a month billed yearly, or on Premium.
- Lead
- 20 minutes
- 6 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
This is a senior publishing leadership interview about the direction and health of a digital title. The panel wants evidence that you can shape a distinctive editorial strategy, understand audience and revenue pressures, build reliable publishing operations and hold senior people accountable.
How to prepare
- Study the publication's audience, formats, distribution mix and editorial gaps.
- Prepare an example of setting or changing editorial direction and the evidence behind it.
- Review the measures you use for reach, loyalty, quality, conversion and production health.
- Think through how you separate editorial decisions from commercial influence while supporting a sustainable business.
- Prepare examples of resolving senior conflict and addressing persistent performance problems.
Common mistakes
- Presenting higher traffic as the only proof of editorial success.
- Offering a strategy that could apply to any publication or audience.
- Ignoring production capacity when proposing new formats and verticals.
- Avoiding the tension between editorial independence and commercial sustainability.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
6 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 4 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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