Deputy Editor, Breaking News and Live

Hearst • San Francisco, CA

10d • Hybrid

About The Position

The San Francisco Chronicle seeks an editor to help expand the way we cover news in real time and oversee our live news operation. This editor will have two central responsibilities: monitoring, assigning and editing daily breaking news; and helping the Chronicle uplevel and expand our “live” coverage. The role is ideal for an editor with strong news judgment and an appetite for audience strategy and emerging forms of digital storytelling. They will help determine what matters right now, how quickly we need to respond and the best way to serve readers as a story develops. They will also help build a stronger, more consistent live-journalism operation under the direction of senior leadership. This could include launching and editing live blogs, coming up with new ways to publish rolling updates on developing news stories, real-time explainers, event coverage, alerts and other emerging formats that help readers understand what is happening. In particular, this editor must be interested in using artificial intelligence tools and automated systems to help drive breaking news discovery and content delivery to readers. This position reports to the Breaking News Editor and will work especially closely with the audience team on live coverage.

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.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed