# Story Desk Manager

**Company**: TEGNA Inc.
**Location**: Houston, TX
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Other

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## Description

## Job Summary

As the Story Desk Manager at KHOU-TV Houston, you will lead the Story Management Desk (SMD), a unified desk that replaces the legacy assignment and digital desks. The SMD model ensures a single, streamlined workflow for planning, producing, and curating stories across platforms.

## Key Responsibilities

- Oversee daily coverage decisions and reporter assignments to be competitive across platforms with the goal to own the big story daily

- Determine the best format for each story, how it should be presented on different platforms, and a reasonable timeline for delivery of those elements

- Look ahead and plan coverage for upcoming news cycles

- Lead regular story check-ins throughout the day

- Maximize audience insights to aid in content choices and improve audience reach

- Ensure competitive, engaging, and impactful content for all platforms, including digital platforms: website, mobile app, and streaming

- Plan coverage of stories that matter most to the community, using editorial judgment and social listening

- Provide editorial support for MSJs, producers, and photojournalists, including reviewing scripts, videos, and content for accuracy, grammar, AP style, digital best practices, fairness, and ethical considerations

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

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

## Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in journalism, communications, or at least 5 years of journalism experience in a local newsroom, digital production, or related role

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

- Proven record of success handling breaking news

- Experience managing a team of journalists

- Demonstrated knowledge regarding content desk operations

- Experience helping transform and manage news-gathering systems

- Impeccable organizational skills with a keen eye for detail

- Demonstrated success as both a team leader and a team player

- Effective communication skills

- Familiarity with the market, a plus

## Benefits

TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental, and financial health of our employees and their families. Benefits include:

- Medical, dental, and eye care coverage

- Fertility, surrogacy, and adoption assistance

- Disability and life insurance

- 401(k) program with company match

- Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays

- Virtual doctor's appointments and therapy sessions

## Skills

### Required
- news judgment
- editorial decision making
- team management
- content desk operations
- breaking news handling

### Nice to have
- familiarity with the market
- organizational skills
- communication skills

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