Description
Job Summary
As the Story Desk Manager, 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 or 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
- With the Story Desk Editors, 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. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance. Our 401(k) program offers full, part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNA’s 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one. Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans, ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc, and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health. TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year.