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About the Role
The San Francisco Chronicle seeks an editor to help expand real-time news coverage and oversee the live news operation. This role is ideal for an editor with strong news judgment and an appetite for audience strategy and emerging forms of digital storytelling, particularly interested in using AI tools for breaking news discovery and content delivery.
Responsibilities
- Monitor for, assign and edit stories on breaking news and emerging developments.
- Launch and edit live blogs and other 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: breaking news, elections, severe weather, major public events, sports and other high-interest moments.
- 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.
Requirements
- At least two years’ experience at a daily newspaper, magazine or web publication or the equivalent as a reporter and/or editor.
- Strong news judgment and instinct for what matters to Bay Area readers.
- Experience with live blogs, rolling coverage, real-time updates or another form of continuous digital journalism.
- Excellent editing, headline-writing and digital-production skills.
- An understanding of how to use real-time data and audience signals to inform editorial decisions.
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Salary/Compensations
- $80,000 - $100,000
About the Company
- The San Francisco Chronicle is the largest newspaper in Northern California and the second largest on the West Coast. Founded in 1865, it has been awarded six Pulitzer Prizes.
- Hearst Newspapers (HNP) represents a network of 28 daily and 50 weekly publications, including the Austin American-Statesman, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany). HNP also includes digital-only news and lifestyle sites and marketing services businesses.