editor Irving, TX
Nexstar Media Group
Full Time
Irving, TX
76651 - 48276 USD ANNUAL Today
Job description
The Standards and Policy Editor works with the Nexstar corporate content team to ensure that the company’s journalism adheres to the highest standards of the profession. The successful candidate will serve on the standards team, which defines the best practices for our reporting — how it’s collected, how it’s written, and how it’s presented to the communities we work in.
From setting sourcing expectations to enforcing style decisions to training and mentoring, this editor will have the ability to positively affect hundreds of journalists in newsrooms touching nearly every state, in both local and national publications. Daily activities will focus on content quality review, corrections triage, and proactive problem prevention.
A strong knowledge of broadcast and digital journalism is required, as well as fluency in all platforms. Applicants should have the highest ethical standards and bring demonstrable leadership experience, preferably managing a newsroom. A BA in journalism, communications or writing — or education in a similar field — is required. A reporting background is preferred.
This position will be based inside a Nexstar newsroom. On-call work after hours and on weekends is required.
Responsibilities
- Proactively monitor digital stories published and to be published.
- Review and rewrite digital headlines to account for standards and policies.
- Provide sensitivity and standards reads for newsrooms.
- Serve on Nexstar’s standards council, which adapts policies to new situations.
- Work as a liaison between editorial and legal.
- Coach new writers and editors through the reporting process.
- Train and enforce reporting standards, as assigned.
- Develop ideas and sourcing for content.
Qualifications
- 10 years of editing experience in a newsroom environment.
- Bachelor's degree.
- Experience with the legal aspects of the journalism business.
- Strong writing and editing skills.
- Experience with content management systems.
- Great attention to detail.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Ability to give constructive feedback.
- Understanding of and adherence to AP style.
Nexstar Media Group
www.nexstar.tv
Irving, TX
Perry A. Sook
$500 million to $1 billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Broadcast Media
1996
