KPBS News Editor

About the role

The News Editor role at KPBS involves supervising a team of reporters across radio, TV, and digital platforms. This role includes managing, editing, and assigning news coverage, ensuring accountability reporting, and providing guidance to reporters.

Responsibilities

• Works with reporters to develop impactful story ideas and ensure accountability reporting, people-centered storytelling, and a mix of thought-provoking and explanatory stories.
• Provides effective leadership, coaches, guides, and directs reporters, and conducts regular air checks and feedback sessions.
• Maintains ongoing relationships with KPBS department leaders and the local community, and participates in daily news meetings.
• Ensures timely delivery of stories to multiple deadlines, communicates risks to senior producers, and prepares written directions when out of office.
• Prioritizes a multimedia approach to all stories, assigns weekend and evening work, and prepares written direction for out-of-office situations.
• Serves as a back-up for other editors and executes corrections or clarifications across platforms as needed.
• Pitches stories to partners like NPR, the PBS NewsHour, and California Hub stations.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in editing or reporting impactful stories.
• Knowledge of current events and issues, and understanding of journalistic standards and practices.
• Ability to be highly organized and handle competing priorities within tight deadlines.
• Experience in a progressively responsible leadership role, including supervision of teams of two or more.
• Broad knowledge of San Diego, regional, state, national, and international news.
• Experience in a unionized environment and proven ability in both short-term and long-term editorial planning.
• Spanish-language fluency and experience with digital audio and video editing.
• Experience with social media production and multimedia storytelling.
• Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional growth and development.

Qualifications

• Minimum four years of related experience, two of which in a progressively responsible supervisory or management role.
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in relevant field, or additional experience in a newsroom may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.
• Experience in journalism in a comparable position as an assignment editor, producer, or line editor.
• Experience as a manager in a unionized environment.
• Prior experience in public media.
• Proven ability in both short-term and long-term editorial planning.
• Experience with digital audio and video editing, and social media production.
• Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional growth and development.

Skills

• People management and mentoring skills.
• Ability to work independently and make good decisions under deadline.
• Ability to effectively prioritize projects and coordinate a variety of tasks and deadlines on a daily basis.
• Ability to utilize and be guided by the KPBS mission statement and strategic plan.

Benefits

• 24 vacation days, 1 personal day, and 13 holidays off (4+ days off over winter break).
• Local employee discounts, opportunities for attending SDSU basketball games, local concerts and events, and discounts on local attractions.
• Free wellness classes & programs, staff pop-up events, full benefits packages that are unmatched (medical, dental, vision, life).
• On-site childcare at a discounted rate (based on availability).
• Opportunities for continued learning and professional development.
• Flexible spending account(s) and employee assistance program.
• Matching and voluntary retirement savings plan.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $7,500 - $8,750 per month ($90,000 - $105,000 per year) depending upon qualifications and is non-negotiable.

Schedule

Hybrid schedule/remote work flexibility options (varies by position).