Senior Digital Producer
$110,000–$125,000 year
HybridPasadena, California, United States
Job Summary
Edit articles, newsletters, and video scripts for grammar, syntax, style, and SEO; review edits for strong hooks and engaging calls-to-action. Flag story ideas and local trends using social listening software, then manage homepage story selection to maximize audience reach. Coach editors and reporters on optimization steps and common mistakes while ensuring all copy adheres to AP and Dialogue style guides. Research information accuracy and deploy diversity, equity, and inclusion practices across reporting and distribution. Execute the strategy to grow a loyal digital audience by analyzing key insights and driving decisions. Work in a fast-paced newsroom environment managing multiple deadlines, with early morning, late evening, or weekend shifts as necessary.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in journalism or related field, or equivalent work experience
- Copyediting experience
- Expertise in fact-checking stories for accuracy, context, and proper attribution
- Highly skilled in line editing and headline writing
- Expertise in AP style
- Working knowledge of social media
- Sharp eye for detail
- Astute news judgment
- Outstanding line editing skills
- Knowledge and fluency with AP style and usage and willingness and ability to be expert on our newsroom's Dialogue style guide
- Advanced knowledge of SEO, particularly for headlines
- Resourcefulness and ability to problem-solve
- Strong communication skills, with a quick response time
- Ability to work well in a team setting and multitask in a deadline-driven environment
- Familiarity with content management systems
- Experience working with content management systems
- Strong news judgment and interest in local and regional news
- Ability to use analytics to drive decision-making
- Must be able to work shifts of early morning, late evening hours or weekends, as necessary
Desired Qualifications
- Multiplatform skills that include line and video editing
- Track record of optimizing digital content
- Fluency in AP style
- Ability to prioritize
- Demonstrated experience with optimizing online content for various platforms
- Eye for what grabs readers' attention
- Confidence making edits and changes as needed
- Ability to identify digital-first content that will also work for broadcast and on-demand audio
- Creativity
- Ability to make decisions quickly
- Ability to move copy with speed
- Deeply understand web production
- Eye for presentation
- Ability to encourage best practices across the newsroom when it comes to how we execute and present our stories
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