KPBS News Editor

Req No: 2022-13110
Category: Radio/TV/Multimedia
Type: Full-Time Contract
Salary: DOE
Close Date:

Overview
This position is open until filled

KPBS News serves a countywide audience with news, information, cultural, and entertainment programming. KPBS is the public media station for San Diego with a mission to be the premier source of local news and information for the San Diego region.

The News Editor ensures we prioritize accountability-driven coverage, and include a mix of thought-provoking stories as well as fresh explainers that teach the audience something new. KPBS is committed to providing quality local in-depth news and news analysis on all of its platforms - TV, Radio, Web and Mobile. The mission of the news division is to provide balanced, accurate reports about the people and issues of import affecting San Diego & Imperial Counties and its citizens.

The News Editor works under the supervision of the Director of News & Editorial Strategy (DNES) to manage the day-to-day coverage of news and to edit/review daily news on radio, TV and online, assigning stories, news planning, reporting and editing for radio, TV, and the web and supervises reporters and their daily assignments. The Editor coordinates show needs with the Senior News Producers. The News Editor provides input and assistance for grant- and donor-reports on projects in the Editor's area, with support and oversight from the Executive Producer of Programming & News Operations.


Responsibilities


Assigning/Editing News: The Editor works with the DNES, Senior News Producers and reporters to develop story ideas that cover issues with major impact in our audiences lives; lively explainers that explain story behind WHY a trend is happening, and breaking news. The Editor encourages pitches, and helps hone them and carefully selects the ones that best match the KPBS news mission. Able to distinguish between investigative efforts with maximum results, and help the team stay focused on the best stories to tell. This position works with the KPBS investigations desk and with KPBS investigative news partner, inewsource.

The Editor ensures writing is focused, spare, and conversational (if you wouldnt speak it, dont write it), at times irreverent, and audio and video for broadcast stories should move the narrative forward, allowing the writer to 'get out of the way' of stories that appear to unfold spontaneously. Help reporters not only to write with style, but to create audio-rich radio, write to the pictures in the video, and adapt stories creatively for the web, as 'top five' lists, a budget game, rich election guide, etc..

The Editor will ensure reporters start their stories online, or helps them team up in breaking news to split up platform coverage if necessary. The News Editor is responsible for the on-air and web news being timely, balanced and accurate, and is always pushing the envelope with the quality of our content and engagement, in collaboration with Senior News Producers, the Editor and the DNES.

The Editor runs the daily news meetings and ensures KPBS is covering the top stories in San Diego daily. The Editor will feed reporter stories into KPBS Evening Edition. The Editor contributes segment ideas for Midday Edition/Evening Edition.

Toward the end of the day, the Editor stacks the Inception rundown with newsroom stories and copy for the Morning Edition anchor, ensuring audio and copy is filed, checked and as intros are current and broadcast-ready. Includes hand-off notes regarding updates to watch for in the morning with links to where to find information.

In partnership with the Senior News Producers and the Digital Editor, the Editor ensures a multimedia approach to all stories is a priority for all local content to reach diverse KPBS audiences. Assigning and editing duties will periodically fall on weekends and evenings and as news coverage requires. The News Editor is the back-up for the Digital Editor, and vice versa.

Administration:

The Editor helps implement the news divisions administrative processes in the Editors team areas, including personnel, budgets, and grant/donor reports. The Editor will aim to spend budgets as effectively as possible, and will alert the DNES to suggested spending priorities on staffing and equipment needs for the next fiscal year.



The Editor maintains news planning documents by updating with reporter movements and assignments, upcoming news pegs, and air/release dates of station news stories. The Editor compiles and distributes daily rundowns of planned coverage for KPBS news partners, with the assistance of the Newsroom Coordinator. The Editor apprises the DNES of errors and necessary corrections, audience feedback, and any high-stakes story situations that entail potential legal action, anonymous sourcing, or ethical issues. The Editor will also coordinate stories shared with KPBS news partners, including the PBS NewsHour, NPR, and our various projects.

Station and Community Outreach: The Editor maintains an ongoing effective relationship with various KPBS departments, and the local community. The Editor will be asked to make appearances at various KPBS events as appropriate. S/he will participate in on-air fundraising for the station.


Qualifications
Minimum Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Previous experience building audience through social networks (Twitter, Facebook and beyond)
• Previous experience with online production, including writing, editing, graphic design principles, basic HTML, photography, photo editing, audio and video production, and working with content management systems
• Experience using social analytics to determine ROI

Minimum Experience & Education

• Bachelors degree in Journalism or related field
• Minimum two years full-time professional, progressively responsible journalism experience in a comparable position as an assignment editor, producer or digital editor, with supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with public media news programming; previous public media experience desired
• Digital audio and video editing software, show rundown, content management system and social media experience
• Broad knowledge of San Diego, regional, California, national, and international news, with the goal of adding context to 'local' stories
• Multimedia skills writing for the web, producing audio and video narratives
• Experience with investigative reporting, use of investigative tools, PRAs, FOIAs
• Experience with data-driven journalism
• Fluency in Spanish

ADDITIONAL APPLICANT INFORMATION:

• The COVID-19 vaccine is required by the CSU for all SDSU Research Foundation employees as a condition of employment. Should you be offered a position, you will be required to provide proof of vaccination status. Individuals who obtain an approved medical or religious exemption on file will be required to complete regular COVID-19 testing
• A background check (including a criminal records check) must be completed satisfactorily before any candidate can be offered a position with SDSU Research Foundation/KPBS
• San Diego State University Research Foundation is an EEO/AA/Disability/Vets Employer

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