Senior Editor Food amp Wine

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Full Time Job
Senior Editor, Food & Wine
We want to provide the most engaging and influential coverage of the Bay Area's food and wine culture, which is among the most dynamic on the planet. Team members strive to be the best food and wine journalists in the region, reporting with accuracy and depth, telling stories through vivid and entertaining language and images, and critiquing with insight and flair. The team breaks news, pulls off in-depth coverage of trends, people and issues - and provides a constant stream of utility coverage with guidance on where and what to eat and drink.
The team's goal is to lead the conversation - online, on social media, in-person - around food and wine. The senior editor's role is to help the team achieve that goal by providing a vision and direction that builds on and expands the work already being done.
The Food & Wine Pillars
• What and where to eat and drink: We search out, report on and review the full range of Bay Area food and drink places: the newest buzzy restaurants, classics, neighborhood joints, immigrants' kitchens and tech company commissaries, markets and shops, tech-y delivery services, popups and food trucks. We stick our necks out and make informed judgments: What tastes good? What is worth the price?
• Food and wine culture: Food and drink is central to the Bay Area's identity. Through it, we can tell the story of who we are. We cover the news of restaurants and wineries and makers; we zero in on trends ahead of the competition and provide evergreen utility and service journalism that feeds our audiences' need for hyper-local information. We bring to life the people behind the food and wine: chefs, farmers, mixologists, bakers, biochemists, financiers. Our coverage paints a rich, detailed picture of the contemporary dining and drinking scene.
• We do this to engage our local audience, but also to inform and attract food and wine lovers across the globe.
• Creative journalism: We look for stories that transcend categories (the food/business story. Food/health. Wine/tech). We tell stories in a variety of ways - first-person, through images, at length or in a tweet, and in a variety of newsletters. And we always look to surprise our readers.
Expectations
This editor is:
• The visionary for the Chronicle's food and wine coverage, able to see and distill trends and share that vision with the staff and the newsroom.
• A strong journalist. News editing experience is a necessity. The editor needs good news judgment and a sense of urgency to launch stories before our competition.
• A team leader who sets high expectations and gives talented team members room to stretch, while understanding that their own ideas are not the only great ones.
• A quick, adept editor: Must feel comfortable editing on deadline and must know how to work with writers to make a good story great.
• A big-picture editor who can spark an ambitious team and individual projects. The Bay Area food scene has a significant place on the national stage. Our coverage should regularly reflect that.
• Online savvy: Our primary goal is building digital subscriptions. This editor needs a deep understanding of SEO best practices and how people search for information on food and drink . Must be conversant with all social media and able to work with newsroom content management systems.
• A visually oriented journalist who makes design, graphics and photography staff fundamental partners in the team's coverage.
• Never satisfied with the status quo.
Responsibilities
• Create a clear strategy for food coverage across all platforms, in collaboration with staff and other newsroom stakeholders (photo, design, digital team, top editors). Collaborate closely with designers and photographers to create strong visual coverage.
• Ensure we cover and post the breaking and trend news of food as it happens. Produce a constant flow of engaging content – including profiles, trend pieces, enterprise work, criticism, utility pieces – for SFChronicle.com readers – and potential readers.
• With audience team, set social media and additional online strategy, cadence and goals.
• Work with writers to develop their potential. Set goals for each staff member. Maximize their strengths. Help them juggle the multiple demands of their multimedia jobs.
• Ensure that the daily and weekly lineups of food and wine coverage across all platforms are planned. Ensure that budgets are up to date; plan major projects with other stakeholders with optimal lead time. Hold staff to deadlines. Ensure photo assignments have been made in a timely manner.
• Top-edit significant stories and projects.
• Partner with a print-focused editor to ensure we produce a striking Sunday print section.
• Act as a representative of The Chronicle in the Bay Area restaurant and food communities.
• Oversee freelance budget.
What You'll Do
• Oversee the planning, editing and production of stories online, including breaking news, features and the ongoing Top Restaurants program.
• Oversee the creation and production of a weekly print section.
• Oversee how the food team works its social media accounts and individuals' own accounts.
• Oversee the teams who produce the department's three newsletters, at least one podcast and special live events.
Requirements
• BA or equivalent
• 3 years editing at a news organization, national or regional magazine or digital food or news site. Must have both top- and line-editing experience for both news and opinion writing, and demonstrate ability to work with and nurture writers
• Strong background covering food and/or restaurants. The ideal candidate has a passion for covering the food and drink scene.
• Competitive news instinct. This editor must also feel at home jumping on news fast and getting it online.
• Ability to conceive creative service journalism: how and what and where our audiences can eat in the Bay Area.
• Experience shaping strong digital content: best practices for writing webheads, using visuals, storytelling in social media
• Skill in editing long-form features.
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