What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Editor position at Houston Chronicle?
Job Description
Production Editor (6-Month Temporary Position)
A production editor serves in a variety of capacities to prepare editorial content for Hearst Newspapers print editions, including:
Being flexible, adaptable and able to flex between the roles and vary the depth of editing and finishing is a crucial part of this role.
Key Qualifications
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.
Recognizing the diverse needs of our candidates, if you are interested in applying for employment and need assistance or an accommodation to use our website or regarding the application process, please contact us by email at hnpemployment@hearst.com. Please do not use this email address to inquire about the status of applications. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests for a reasonable accommodation through this email address.
Production Editor (6-Month Temporary Position)
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.
Being flexible, adaptable and able to flex between the roles and vary the depth of editing and finishing is a crucial part of this role.
Key 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
- Ability to work with multiple products and multiple people with a customer-service focus.
- 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.
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.
Recognizing the diverse needs of our candidates, if you are interested in applying for employment and need assistance or an accommodation to use our website or regarding the application process, please contact us by email at hnpemployment@hearst.com. Please do not use this email address to inquire about the status of applications. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests for a reasonable accommodation through this email address.