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About the Role
The San Francisco Chronicle seeks an editor to expand real-time news coverage and oversee the live news operation. This role involves monitoring, assigning, and editing daily breaking news, and enhancing the Chronicle's live coverage. The ideal candidate has strong news judgment and an interest in audience strategy and digital storytelling.
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.
- Flexibility to work nights, weekends, and holidays as part of a rotating breaking-news and live-coverage schedule.
Skills
- News judgment
- Audience strategy
- Digital storytelling
- Editing
- Headline-writing
- Digital production
- Real-time data analysis
- Artificial intelligence tools
- Automated systems
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 2+ years experience
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. Acquired by the Hearst Corporation in 2000, it was founded in 1865 and has been awarded six Pulitzer Prizes.
- Hearst Newspapers (HNP) represents a network of 28 daily and 50 weekly publications nationwide, including prominent digital-only news and lifestyle sites. HNP invests in innovative storytelling methods, growing newsrooms, diversifying tools, and evolving platforms to serve millions of readers.