Public Matters Editor

Salary: $90,000.00 - $100,000.00 AnnuallyApplication Deadline: Sep 18, 2024Leadership, Planning and Execution (45%)Helps develop key performance indicators to measure progress, and uses data to inform decisions.Directs digital and community engagement efforts surrounding democracy, civic engagement and other related issues.Ensures the Democracy Investigative Reporter and Democracy Social Media Host produce a steady stream of content, live, dailies and features with a digital first orientation.Collaborates with the Director of Grants and Engagement and other team members to amplify the project.Distributes content that arises from the One Small Step initiatives across KPBS platforms.Manages the team’s long term schedule.Manages the relationship with Public Matters Initiative partners at inewsource and Voice of San Diego, via weekly editorial calls.Serves as a key point of contact for the project’s work both internally at KPBS, as well as externally including via pitches to other news organizations such as the California Hub, NPR, PBS, Marketplace and Public Radio International and others.Assigning and Editing News (45%)Collaborates with the News Director, Managing Editor, Digital Editor, Senior Producers and reporters to develop story ideas and engagement projects that cover issues surrounding democracy and civic engagement with major impact in our audience’s lives.Encourages enterprise reporting and engagement, and helps hone pitches and carefully selects stories that best match the KPBS news mission.Ensures writing is focused, spare, and conversational, at times irreverent; and that audio and video for broadcast stories moves the narrative forward, allowing the writer to “get out of the way” of stories that appear to unfold spontaneously.Helps reporters write with style and word economy, create audio-rich radio, write to the pictures in the video, and adapt stories creatively for the web, including but not limited to “top five” lists, interactive budget games, and useful election guides.Ensures reporters start their stories on the website or other digital platforms, and that on-air versions are timely, fair and accurate.Develops a Mission Statement for the Democracy Desk under the Public Matters initiative to establish the philosophy for coverage.Contributes to daily news meetings and ensures KPBS is covering the top democracy and civic engagement stories in the region every day while contributing segment ideas for Midday Edition, Evening Edition, All Things Considered and Morning Edition.In collaboration with the Senior News Producers and the Digital Editor, ensures that a multimedia approach to all stories is a priority in order to reach diverse KPBS audiences.Other Duties and Responsibilities as Assigned (10%)Bachelor's degree in relevant field or additional experience in a newsroom may be substituted for the required education on a year for year basis.Four years of full-time professional journalism experience in an audio, digital or video newsroom environment; two years of which in a progressively responsible, full-time newsroom supervisory or management role with experience including recruiting, hiring, managing, coaching and evaluating professional journalists.

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