# Story Desk Editor

**Company**: TEGNA Inc.
**Location**: Charlotte, NC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Other

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## Description

WCNC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Charlotte, NC, is seeking a Story Desk Editor to join its newsroom team. As a Story Desk Editor, you will play a critical role in driving daily editorial execution, curating and producing impactful stories, and ensuring content connects with audiences across various 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, including 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, such as graphics, video, and audience-submitted content

- 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:

- 1-3 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 and CMS tools

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

- Collaborative, solutions-focused mindset that thrives in a team environment

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

Benefits:

- Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage

- 401(k) program with company match

- Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays

- Access to virtual doctor's appointments and therapy sessions

## Skills

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

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