Production Editor

Hearst Magazines; Houston (TX); Remote; USD 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Hearst Newspapers is seeking a Production Editor to support sports coverage and general editorial layouts for print. You will handle page layout, wire decisions, copy editing, and caption writing, ensuring timely delivery and quality across Hearst papers.

You should be adept at headlines, photo selection, and page proofing, with strong English literacy and customer-service focus. Remote work is possible in this role across Hearst markets.

Qualifications

• Experience in print news production.
• Ability to work with multiple products and people with a customer-service focus.
• Savvy to finish and typeset a page on time.
• CUE/CCI experience is a plus.
• Excellent literacy in English.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Page layout

Copy editing

Headline writing

Sports editing

Customer service

Time management

Job description

Production Editor

Location: Remote

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 andtrimming 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.

Special to this role

While we are looking for editors who can work across topics, this role will primarily be focused on editing and presenting sports news in the Hearst papers throughout Texas, especially focused on Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin.

As such, sports journalism is a specialty sill that is necessary for success, as will the ability to work in other parts of the operation outside of sports.

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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