Audience News Guide Editor

Palabra; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 62,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

KQED in San Francisco is seeking an Audience News Guide Editor to lead explanatory journalism and guide creation across radio, podcast, and digital platforms. You will edit, report, and mentor colleagues while developing coverage strategies and contributing to audio and video content.

The role emphasizes reporting breaking news, collaborating with departments, and delivering accessible stories that connect with diverse Bay Area communities.

Qualifications

• Professional experience as broadcast, print and/or online journalist, including news reporting, editing and production.
• Excellent news writing skills; the ability to write quickly and accurately, with an understanding of tone and style across platforms; proficiency using correct spelling, grammar, punctuation and pronunciation
• Ability to accurately communicate facts and verify information.
• Excellent news judgment.
• Thorough command of journalistic principles, ethics and standards.
• Strong command of sound editing and radio production techniques.
• Experience of web, mobile social media platform editing and publishing.
• High proficiency of on-air voicing skills.
• Ability to interview and communicate with a variety of individuals.
• Ability to research and communicate through a variety of mobile and digital tools.
• Ability to meet deadlines and goals while working under pressure
• Proven collaboration skills — which are essential in working with fellow KQED staffers across departments and with partner organizations
• Ability to stay organized and prioritize tasks when working on multiple projects at once.

Responsibilities

• Researches, writes and reports news stories for radio, podcast, broadcast, the web, mobile and social media platforms.
• Reports and produces stories both from inside the newsroom and in the field.
• Assists Editors and KQED News team in developing coverage strategies and daily assignments.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

News writing

Editing

Broadcast/Radio production

Interviewing

Deadline-driven

Collaboration

Multiplatform storytelling

Job description

Job Description

Title: Audience News Guide Editor

Pay Information: Hourly - $44.71 to $54.60.

This position requires an experienced reporter who is capable of reporting daily news and feature stories in an authoritative and conversational manner that connects with audiences. KQED reporters are expected to produce journalism across all platforms, including audio and text, as well as social and other media.
Reporters must be proficient at spots, features, cut-and-copy, voicers and live on-air debriefings for broadcast and must be equally proficient at writing text stories and producing other online news content. Reporters are expected to produce content for relevant platforms, such as video, email newsletters and apps.
Reporters at KQED are also expected to contribute to news planning, staying atop daily local and national news through multiple sources. A KQED Reporter must also be capable of working across a number of different departments, with colleagues of varying experience levels, and complete their work under deadline pressure.
Addendum:
The Audience News Guides Editor is an experienced journalist who has demonstrated knowledge and experience editing and reporting explanatory journalism that makes news events -- and general challenges of daily living -- understandable and accessible to the communities they affect.
This editor will edit stories, usually in the form of guides, delivered by both the Audience News team (including Outdoors reporting) and the wider newsroom. The editor is also expected to report their own stories and guides. Since this is a newsroom role, the editor is also expected to report on breaking news and have a role in developing audio and video content.
This Editor also consults with colleagues across the newsroom on story strategies, and questions about journalistic and editorial standards. They advise other reporters, editors and interns as a mentor and develop instructional materials for intern training sessions.

KQED envisions a public media organization with a culture that centers on human dignity, equity, and belonging. This will enable us to better serve and reflect the Bay Area through diverse and inclusive storytelling.

We value the contributions of marginalized people in society — including Black, Indigenous, and all people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ people — and we believe that these communities must be centered in the work we do, and we strongly encourage members of these communities to apply.

KQED provide citizens of Northern California with a community-supported alternative to commercial media. We provide citizens with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions; convene community dialogue; bring the arts to everyone and engage audiences to share their stories. We help students and teachers thrive in 21st-century classrooms, and take people of all ages on journeys of exploration- exposing them to new people, places and ideas.

The successful candidate will be required to join The Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA).
Essential Functions:

• Researches, writes and reports news stories for radio, podcast, broadcast, the web, mobile and social media platforms.
• Reports and produces stories both from inside the newsroom and in the field.
• Assists Editors and KQED News team in developing coverage strategies and daily assignments.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge/Experience Required:

• Professional experience as broadcast, print and/or online journalist, including news reporting, editing and production.
• Excellent news writing skills; the ability to write quickly and accurately, with an understanding of tone and style across platforms; proficiency using correct spelling, grammar, punctuation and pronunciation
• Ability to accurately communicate facts and verify information.
• Excellent news judgment.
• Thorough command of journalistic principles, ethics and standards.
• Strong command of sound editing and radio production techniques.
• Experience of web, mobile social media platform editing and publishing.
• High proficiency of on-air voicing skills.
• Ability to interview and communicate with a variety of individuals.
• Ability to research and communicate through a variety of mobile and digital tools.
• Ability to meet deadlines and goals while working under pressure
• Proven collaboration skills — which are essential in working with fellow KQED staffers across departments and with partner organizations
• Ability to stay organized and prioritize tasks when working on multiple projects at once.

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employees may be required to perform other related duties as necessary to meet the ongoing needs of this organization.
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Job Requirements

Knowledge/Experience Required:

• Professional experience as broadcast, print and/or online journalist, including news reporting, editing and production.
• Excellent news writing skills; the ability to write quickly and accurately, with an understanding of tone and style across platforms; proficiency using correct spelling, grammar, punctuation and pronunciation
• Ability to accurately communicate facts and verify information.
• Excellent news judgment.
• Thorough command of journalistic principles, ethics and standards.
• Strong command of sound editing and radio production techniques.
• Experience of web, mobile social media platform editing and publishing.
• High proficiency of on-air voicing skills.
• Ability to interview and communicate with a variety of individuals.
• Ability to research and communicate through a variety of mobile and digital tools.
• Ability to meet deadlines and goals while working under pressure
• Proven collaboration skills — which are essential in working with fellow KQED staffers across departments and with partner organizations
• Ability to stay organized and prioritize tasks when working on multiple projects at once.