Senior Editor, Digital News

Kqed Inc; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

KQED is seeking a Senior Editor of Digital News who will guide local coverage and edit stories to help audiences understand the complexities of the Bay Area. The role involves managing reporters, collaborating on significant issues, and fostering an inclusive culture within the newsroom.

Qualifications

• Four years minimum experience in journalism.
• Strong command of journalistic principles, ethics, and standards.
• Ability to prioritize tasks on multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Edits, assigns, and oversees news coverage.
• Manages team members and coordinates with production.
• Delivers content in a timely manner.

Skills

Excellent reporting and editing skills

Excellent news judgment

Strong time management skills

Proven collaboration skills

Ability to work inclusively

Education

Four years minimum experience as broadcast, print and/or online journalist

Tools

Digital editing and production

Sound editing and radio production techniques

Job description

The Senior Editor of Digital News is responsible for editing stories that will help audiences understand the complexities of living in the Bay Area. With an eye on news and cultural trends, this senior editor will guide local coverage that can help residents understand some of the challenges and opportunities of living in the Bay Area, whether that’s the impact of technology, policy, social interactions or consumer trends, with an eye on stories that are locally rooted and nationally relevant. This senior editor will edit and manage at least two reporters – one based in San Francisco and one in San Jose – and collaborate with others in the newsroom. This editor will focus mainly on features, but also edit dailies and other content as needed.

Position Summary:

A Senior Editor leads a team of journalists to report and produce news and feature content that informs and connects with our audience in a timely fashion. They encourage team members to shine, fostering creative approaches to telling the daily, weekly and monthly news, while not overlooking trends and unusual content that make our coverage and region unique in the nation.

A senior editor works in collaboration with other KQED editors and journalists to provide coverage of significant issues, assigning and editing daily news, in-depth features and projects, and helping to direct reporters and interns in producing stories for multiple KQED programs, KQED’s digital platforms and NPR.

Senior editors at KQED are expected to manage teams of reporters and producers and journalists, on both content and journalistic issues, but also personnel and management issues.

The editor is responsible for scheduling, assigning, and coordinating their own reporting staff as well as communicating and coordinating coverage with other editors and journalists in the newsroom.

KQED is focused on recruiting and retaining a diverse group of talented journalists and media makers, who reflect and represent the communities we serve. The journalist in this senior editor role will help to create an inclusive culture and ensure that journalists from marginalized communities are able to inject their unique perspectives into the ideas and the workflow of KQED’s journalism.

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 Code of Ethicshttps://www.kqed.org/about/code-ethics

The mission that drives us:
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.

This role will work hybrid between working inKQED's newly renovated headquarters and working remotely.

Salary Information: $112,000-$140,000 Annually

Essential Functions:

• Edits, assigns and oversees daily, weekly, monthly and longer-term news coverage.
• Delivers content in a timely manner.
• Is responsive to team needs and follows through on issues pertaining to employment
  Manages team members, including professional development, job performance and regular check-ins.
• Coordinates edited stories with production.
• Coordinates social engagement outreach efforts to support reporting
• Fills in for other editors as appropriate.
• Represents KQED internally and externally.
• Performs other essential duties as required.

Knowledge/Experience Required:

• Four years minimum experience as broadcast, print and/or online journalist, including news reporting, editing and production.
• Excellent reporting and editing skills.
• Excellent news judgment.
• Strong time management skills.
• Thorough command of journalistic principles, ethics and standards.
• Strong command of sound editing and radio production techniques.
• Experience with digital editing and production.
• Ability to work inclusively with a diverse staff
• 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
• Adherence to media laws; understanding of media licensing agreements

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.