Production Editor

Houston Chronicle; Houston (TX); Remote; USD 55,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Houston Chronicle is seeking a Production Editor to prepare editorial content for Hearst Newspapers’ print editions. The role covers page layout, copy editing, and timely typesetting across sports-focused content.

The editor collaborates across departments, decides wire news and ensures headlines and captions are accurate and compelling. This remote position requires strong attention to deadlines and cross-functional teamwork.

Qualifications

• Experience organizing pages and sections for print editions.
• Proficient copy editing for headlines and captions.
• Ability to finish and typeset pages on deadline.
• Experience in print news production.
• Strong customer-service focus and collaboration with multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Layout pages and organize sections for editions.
• Wire news decision-making for timely coverage.
• Copy edit for print, including headlines and captions.
• Edit pages with headlines/captions and trim stories to fit.
• Proof pages and typeset to meet deadlines.

Skills

Page layout

Copy editing (headlines & captions)

Page finishing & typesetting

Print news production

Customer-service oriented

Job description

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
• 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

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 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.

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.