# Story Desk Editor

**Company**: TEGNA
**Location**: Houston, TX
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Other

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## Description

We are seeking a Story Desk Editor to join our team at KHOU-TV Houston, a CBS affiliate. As a Story Desk Editor, you will be part of the Story Management Desk (SMD), a unified desk that replaces the legacy assignment and digital desks. You will drive daily editorial execution, curate and produce impactful stories, and ensure our content connects authentically with audiences across streaming, digital, social, and broadcast platforms.

Responsibilities:

- Lead and communicate newsroom coverage during breaking news, ensuring accuracy, urgency, and balance.

- Identify and plan stories that matter most to the community, using editorial judgment and social listening.

- Create and edit engaging content for digital platforms: website, mobile app, and streaming.

- Guide newsroom logistics and provide editorial support for MSJs, producers, and photojournalists.

- Edit reporter content for accuracy, grammar, AP style, digital best practices, fairness, and ethical considerations.

- Enhance storytelling with creative elements (graphics, video, audience-submitted content, etc.).

- Use available metrics to inform coverage and improve audience reach.

- Support newsroom operations and coverage planning as needed.

- Uphold TEGNA's journalistic standards and values across all platforms.

Requirements:

- 3-5 years of journalism experience in a local newsroom, digital production, or related role.

- Strong news judgment and the ability to make fast, sound editorial decisions under pressure.

- Excellent writing skills, with the ability to produce accurate and compelling content quickly.

- Experience with newsroom systems, CMS tools.

- Organizational skills to manage competing priorities in a deadline-driven environment.

- A collaborative, solutions-focused mindset that thrives in a team environment.

- Bachelor's degree in journalism, communications, or equivalent experience.

Benefits: TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits, including two medical plan options, dental and eye care coverage, fertility, surrogacy, and adoption assistance, disability and life insurance, a 401(k) program with a company match, virtual doctor's appointments, and free annual therapy sessions. Employees also receive a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit and nine paid holidays per year.

## Skills

### Required
- journalism
- editorial judgment
- writing
- content creation
- newsroom systems
- CMS tools
- organizational skills
- collaboration

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