Live News Editor: Real-Time Coverage & AI
San Francisco Chronicle
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Job summary
The San Francisco Chronicle is seeking a Deputy Editor for Breaking News and Live in San Francisco to expand real-time coverage and lead our live news operation.
The editor will monitor, assign and edit breaking stories, launch live blogs, and help shape a cutting-edge live journalism approach. Collaboration with audience and editorial teams will be essential, including testing new formats and AI-enabled workflows.
Qualifications
- This role requires at least two years' experience at a daily newspaper, magazine, or web publication.
- Strong news judgment and instinct for what matters to Bay Area readers.
- Experience with live blogs, rolling coverage, or real-time updates.
- Excellent editing and headline-writing abilities.
- Ability to use real-time data and audience signals to inform editorial decisions.
Responsibilities
- Monitor for, assign and edit stories on breaking news and emerging developments.
- Launch and edit live blogs and rolling coverage.
- Help develop an evolving editorial approach to live journalism.
- Increase the volume and range of the Chronicle’s live journalism by identifying opportunities across major coverage arenas.
- Use audience data to evaluate live coverage and improve its format, cadence, reach and usefulness.
- Help test live storytelling formats, tools and workflows across web, app, alerts, newsletters and social platforms.
- Participate in an editing rotation that may include nights, weekends and holidays.
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Job description
The San Francisco Chronicle is seeking a Deputy Editor for Breaking News and Live in San Francisco to expand real-time coverage and lead our live news operation.
The editor will monitor, assign and edit breaking stories, launch live blogs, and help shape a cutting-edge live journalism approach. Collaboration with audience and editorial teams will be essential, including testing new formats and AI-enabled workflows.
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