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Story Desk Editor

TEGNA's KIII-TV in Corpus Christi is reimagining local journalism and seeks a Story Desk Editor to serve as the hub of a unified Story Management Desk. This role blends assignment editing and digital content production to drive daily editorial execution, lead breaking coverage, and produce audience-focused content across streaming, digital, social and broadcast platforms.

Skills

  • Strong news judgment and decisive editorial decision-making
  • Excellent, fast-paced writing and editing skills (AP style)
  • Familiarity with newsroom systems and CMS tools
  • Experience producing for digital, social and streaming platforms
  • Ability to coordinate logistics under tight deadlines
  • Social listening and audience engagement skills
  • Basic multimedia skills (video/graphics integration)
  • Comfort using metrics/analytics to shape coverage

Responsibilities

  • Lead and coordinate newsroom coverage during breaking news with accuracy and urgency
  • Plan daily story coverage and curate content across digital, social, streaming and broadcast platforms
  • Create, edit and publish engaging content for website, mobile app and streaming channels
  • Edit reporter content for accuracy, grammar, AP style, fairness and digital best practices
  • Guide newsroom logistics and provide editorial support to MSJs, producers and photojournalists
  • Enhance stories with creative elements such as graphics, video and audience-submitted content
  • Use audience metrics and social listening to inform coverage and improve reach
  • Support overall newsroom operations and uphold TEGNA journalistic standards

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in journalism, communications, or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Demonstrated newsroom or digital production experience

Benefits

  • Medical plan options through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas (full and part-time eligible)
  • Dental and vision coverage
  • Fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance
  • Disability and life insurance
  • 401(k) with company match (100% match up to first 4% of pay) and immediate vesting
  • Nine free virtual doctor visits via Teladoc and 12 free therapy sessions via Spring Health
  • Generous paid time off (PTO) and nine paid holidays per year
  • Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities
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Tegna Inc. is an American publicly traded broadcast, digital media and marketing services company headquartered in Tysons, Virginia. It was created on June 29, 2015, when the Gannett Company split into two publicly traded companies.

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