Service Journalism Editor, Sacramento Bee

Service Journalism Editor, The Sacramento Bee

We are seeking a Service Journalism Editor to join the award-winning newsroom of The Sacramento Bee to help lead our California service journalism reporting team.
Among this deputy editor’s priorities are helping to ensure our service journalism team’s local and statewide stories and videos are useful and essential, and that we are meeting our readers' curiosity and informational needs.
McClatchy’s service journalism teams are at the forefront of our digital journalism experiences that connect the news to people’s lives in an accessible way. We answer readers’ questions, we build a culture of listening and we experiment with story format, video, audio and social media.

These teams also write stories that help our readers live their best lives in their communities. This may include explaining a city’s new food compost laws, or polling readers for the best pizza in town.

Here are just a few of the California team’s recent stories:

• Sacramento has one of the least affordable housing markets in US, report says. Here's why
• Do I need a California Real ID? When's the new deadline? Here's what you need to know
• Can you apply for California unemployment benefits if you were fired from your job?
• Another Sacramento Starbucks just closed. It was first in the region to unionize

The deputy editor based at The Sacramento Bee reports to the California service journalism editor. This editor also must be comfortable writing and reporting, as all team members contribute to coverage on a variety of topics as well as to newsrooms’ breaking news coverage.
The team is driven by readership growth and loyalty strategies, and uses tools such as Google Trends and surveys to surface and answer questions readers are asking at the moment. We have fun, and we write about the news.

The ability to collaborate is also a must, as this editor communicates with colleagues across California newsrooms and McClatchy newsrooms and with the News Audience Initiatives and News Analytics teams.

In this role, you will need to:

• Perform daily execution of audience-focused strategy, fueled by a team of reporters working across multiple storytelling platforms.
• Coordinate story assignments, in collaboration with service journalism and newsroom editors, informed by search interest, social conversations and engagement journalism.
• Have strong writing and reporting skills, as well as excellent news judgment and journalism ethics.
• Have a passion for the written word as well as video, audio and graphics.
• Demonstrate speed, competitiveness and SEO savvy through aggregating and storytelling tools.
• Work well in a team environment, and communicate with colleagues using established digital channels.
• Regularly utilize a computer, often requiring prolonged periods of keyboarding and mouse usage.
• Other duties as needed.

Skills needed:

• Experience with audience tools such as Parse.ly and Google Trends.
• Ability to understand audience metrics and the tactics that move them.
• Editing, reporting and writing skills required.

Education & experience:

• College degree or equivalent work experience.
• At least 3 years of local news reporting experience; editing experience is a plus
• Please include a cover letter and resume with your application, as well as work samples that reflect your journalism experience.

This is a hybrid remote/in-office position based at The Sacramento Bee in Sacramento, California. The anticipated base pay range for this position is between $65,000 and $75,000 a year. Individual base pay may vary within that range depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, relevant education, department equity, training, geography and local wage and hours laws.

What we’ll bring:

As a journalist at McClatchy, you will join a supportive, flexible, collaborative team. McClatchy strives to be an employer of choice, and our benefits package is made with this goal in mind. With a focus on well-being and daily life, our package options includes healthcare coverage for employees and their families, financial protection f