Senior Texas Reporter Chron
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Senior Texas Reporter Chron
Chron is seeking a Senior Texas Reporter with sharp editorial skills a strong voice and experience working for a digitalfirst newsroom. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding and appreciation for the Lone Star State. They have experience covering news culture history and trends unique to Texas and importantly know how to find and tell a good story while working independently. As they cover a crowded and competitive landscape the ideal candidate will use their experience and resources to unearth offbeat stories no one else has and that Chrons audience wants. Candidates will embrace the chance to craft wellreported stories with voice; they will be able to toggle between writing wellsourced features and fasterpaced daily news on interesting personalities and indelible places; and demonstrate why the saying as goes Texas so goes the nation is more relevant now than ever before. Candidates based in Houston are preferred but open to candidates across Texas.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Excellent news judgement and news writing skills
- Excellent reporting researching and interviewing skills
- Familiarity with the people issues and culture that are reshaping Texas
- High metabolism for turning out mustread stories each day
- Familiarity with national digital media landscape
- Familiarity with content management systems
- Strong copyediting skills and knowledge of AP Style
Competencies/Critical Skills:
- Find unique angles on Texas craft news and culture pieces that draw statewide attention
- Quickly cover newsworthymoments as they happen to capitalize on social and search traffic
- Juggle responsibilities including reporting and writing multiple pieces daily across different topics
- Balance daily weekly and longerlead deadlines working with editor to establish your beat
Describe the most challenging aspect of this position:
- Establishing Chrons new North Texas beat finding stories that reflect regional knowledge & curiosity
- Working with an editor to craft stories and franchises exciting to readers inside and outside of Texas
- Covering a wide variety of topics from news and weather to North Texas culture and local drama
What type of decisions does this position refer to others for approval
- Development of long form features franchises and projects
Measures of success for this position include:
- Overall traffic performance in aims of meeting daily and monthly goals
- Proven success establishing a new area of coverage for Chrons audience
- Meeting deadlines and keeping pace with publishing schedule while improving work quality
- Mentions links shares and pickups of stories from prominent thirdparty publications
- Reader shares and other engagement with stories on social media platforms
- Overall increase of unique inDMA visitors and loyal inDMA visitors
Experience Qualifications Technical Requirements and Education:
- Education: Bachelors degree in journalism communications or English.
- Experience: At least 57 years of news reporting experience with a strong focus on covering Texas news and culture.
- Knowledge: Familiarity with key personalities and events across Texas; a deep connection to Texas culture is highly preferred.
- Technical Skills: Experience with analytics tools such as Chartbeat Google Analytics or Looker is preferred.
- Publishing Platforms: Proficiency in using a CMS and publishing to digital platforms is preferred.
Chronis an essential digitalfirst local news source serving more than 6 million unique readers a month in Houston and the surrounding region including Galveston and the Gulf Coast. Once the digital home for the Houston Chronicle Chron became its own distinctive site and newsroom in 2012 whenHoustonChronicle.comlaunched. Focusing on stories that capture local culture and spark conversation Chron covers trending sports food and entertainment travel local TV personalities real estate space and more.Chron.comhas become the goto destination for metro and regional readers who are curious about whats new in Houston and whats affecting culture and life in the Bayou City.
About Hearst Newspapers:
With 2500 employees across the nation HNP encompasses a network of 24 daily and 52 weekly publications including the San Francisco Chronicle Houston Chronicle San Antonio ExpressNews and Albany Times Union several top digitalonly 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.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
