Production Editor
About the role
A production editor serves in a variety of capacities to prepare editorial content for Hearst Newspapers print editions, including: Page layout and section organization, Wire news decision-making, Copy editing for print, Page editing, including headline and caption writing, photo selection and trimming stories to fit, Proofing pages, Typesetting pages in time for deadline.
Responsibilities
- Page layout and section organization
- Copy editing, including headline writing and caption writing
- Savvy to finish and typeset a page on time
- Experience in print news production
- Able to work with multiple products and multiple people with a customer-service focus
Qualifications
- Page layout and section organization
- Copy editing, including headline writing and caption writing
- Savvy to finish and typeset a page on time
- Experience in print news production
- Able to work with multiple products and multiple people with a customer-service focus
Specialty Skills
- Newspaper editing, headline writing and caption writing
- Aptitude in sports story and page editing a plus
- Newspaper page proofing
- Excellent literacy in English
- CUE/CCI experience plus
About Hearst Newspapers
About Hearst Newspapers: With 2,500 employees across the nation, HNP encompasses a network of 24 daily and 52 weekly publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News and Albany Times Union, several top digital-only news and lifestyle sites, marketing services businesses, and entertainment businesses such as King Features Syndicate. At HNP, we are investing in new and innovative ways to tell stories – growing newsrooms, diversifying tools, evolving platforms – to support the millions of people who trust us each month to help them make decisions, take action and be inspired. Be a part of something bigger – your headline awaits.