Production Editor

Houston Chronicle; Connecticut; On-site; USD 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Houston Chronicle seeks a Production Editor to prepare editorial content for print editions, handling page layout, copy editing, headline and caption writing, and photo selection. The role requires flexibility to adjust depth of editing and finishing tasks across pages or sections.

Responsibilities include wire news decision-making, page editing, proofing, and ensuring pages meet deadline. Strong English literacy and experience in print news production are valued.

Qualifications

• Page layout and section organization.
• Copy editing, including headline writing and caption writing
• Savvy to finish and typeset a page on time
• Experience in print news production
• Ability to work with multiple products and multiple people with a customer-service focus

Responsibilities

• Page layout and section organization.
• Wire news decision-making
• Copy editing for print
• Page editing, including headline and caption writing
• Proofing pages
• Typesetting pages in time for deadline

Skills

Page layout

Copy editing

Typesetting

Print news production

Customer-service focus

Job description

Production editor

A production editor serves in a variety of capacities to prepare editorial content for Hearst Newspapers print editions, including:

• Page layout and section organization
• Copy editing for print
• Page editing, including headline and caption writing, photo selection and trimming stories to fit.
• Proofing pages
• Typesetting pages in time for deadline.

Job Description

A production editor serves in a variety of capacities to prepare editorial content for Hearst Newspapers print editions, including:

• Page layout and section organization
• Wire news decision-making
• Copy editing for print
• Page editing, including headline and caption writing, photo selection and trimming stories to fit.
• Proofing pages
• Typesetting pages in time for deadline.

Depending on the size of the newspaper, depth of editing and other factors, the production editor may perform all of these tasks for a page, set of pages or a section; or play one or two of these roles on a section or set of pages. Often, production editors will serve in one or two of these roles for part of a shift, and in other sets of these roles for another part of the shift.

Being flexible, adaptable and able to flex between the roles and vary the depth of editing and finishing is a crucial part of this role.

Key Qualifications

• Page layout and section organization.
• Copy editing, including headline writing and caption writing
• Savvy to finish and typeset a page on time
• Experience in print news production
• Ability to work with multiple products and multiple people with a customer-service focus.

Specialty Skills

• Newspaper editing, headline writing and caption writing
• Aptitude in sports story and page editing a plus
• Newspaper page proofing
• Excellent literacy in English
• CUE/CCI experience plus.

About Hearst Newspapers:

With 2,500 employees across the nation, HNP encompasses a network of 24 daily and 52 weekly publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News and Albany Times Union, several top digital-only news and lifestyle sites, marketing services businesses, and entertainment businesses such as King Features Syndicate.

At HNP, we are investing in new and innovative ways to tell stories – growing newsrooms, diversifying tools, evolving platforms – to support the millions of people who trust us each month to help them make decisions, take action and be inspired.

Be a part of something bigger – your headline awaits.

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