News Desk – Part Time
The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram is looking for a part-time editor to edit stories, lay out pages and help run our news site.
We are an ambitious news organization with high standards, and we need a talented editor who can work in both digital and print. The top candidate will be both a sophisticated story editor and a talented news designer who has a track record of creating compelling pages on deadline. Successful candidates are not just grammar sticklers who write great headlines and draw boxes. They prosecute stories, looking for holes and structural problems. We need an editor who’s comfortable switching back and forth between print and digital – and doing both at the same time. Our copy editors pay close attention to how our journalism is rendered digitally and improve it without being asked. They also run our website from time to time, and they sometimes choose wire stories for publication both online and in print.
A minimum of three to five years editing and designing pages for a news organization is required.
The position will require a variety of shifts, including nights and weekends.
Required skills:
- Superior news judgment
- Strong critical thinking abilities
- Unrelenting attention to detail
- Clear, precise writing, headline writing and copy-editing skills
- Strong page design skills
- SEO best practices
- HTML
- Availability to work nights and weekends
If you are the best at what you do and share our zeal for ambitious journalism, this is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for. You will be part of Maine’s finest and largest newsgathering operation, and you’ll live in a region with an extraordinarily high quality of life. Regional candidates preferred; relocation expenses not available. Send your resume and 3 to 5 examples of your page designs to Executive Editor Steve Greenlee at sgreenlee@pressherald.com
We are an EEO employer.