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Full Time Job
SFGATE Local Editor
Your Impact:
Under the direction of SFGATE's Deputy Managing Editor, the Local Editor will be a versatile journalist with a deep understanding of San Francisco and the Bay Area, plus enough intellectual curiosity to want to tell stories that matter to the people who live here. The Local Editor will be able to toggle between fast-paced daily news stories and the well-sourced, deep-dive features that cover the daily drama of living in the city, whether that's writing about a neighborhood uproar over a new ghost kitchen hub flooding a quiet city street with delivery app drivers, or kayaking out to the only privately owned island in the San Francisco Bay to uncover the story behind it. We want someone who will dig deep to cover the Bay Area's neighborhoods in incredibly unique ways and find stories that locals didn't even know mattered to them.
Why SFGATE?
Launched in 1994, SFGATE.com was one of the first large-market media sites in the world and served as the exclusive digital home of the San Francisco Chronicle for 19 years. In 2019, the Chronicle (which can now be found online at the paywalled sfchronicle.com) and SFGATE officially became two separately run entities with their own editorial staffs and independent newsrooms.
Today, SFGATE is a digital-only publication that reaches more than 28 million readers every month and tells the stories of the people, places and ideas that make San Francisco, and the Bay Area at large, the weird and wonderful place that it is. We help readers navigate their day, whether it's by keeping them updated on big breaking news, guiding them to interesting local experiences or sharing a part of the Bay they haven't seen before.
The site is home to seven verticals: Culture, offering a unique mix of the entertainment news you actually need, and the underground stories from hidden corners of the Bay Area you want; Local, the premier destination for everything that life in San Francisco encompasses; Sports, covering the intersection of sports and culture; Travel, covering everything from flight deals and travel news to hotel hacks and under-the-radar day trips; Food Drink, where we tell you the backstory of the people behind the bar and in the kitchen; and News; plus, SFGATE has satellite editors covering Lake Tahoe, California Parks, the Central Coast, Hawaii, Disneyland, Los Angeles and Cannabis.
What you'll do:
• Consistently have ideas - you'll be given a blank canvas to tell stories that matter. You need to have a constant stream of ideas to paint this, and a vision for covering life in San Francisco and the Bay Area. We are absolutely not looking for someone to just aggregate the internet into oblivion. What we are looking for is someone who can apply ambitious creativity to journalism about San Francisco and the Bay Area at large, going a layer deeper on where we live and why we love it - from deep dives on the mysterious door levers in San Francisco Victorians to a profile of the truck driver who helped move a Victorian from one neighborhood to another to an investigation into unsanctioned signs installed along San Francisco's Wiggle bike route.
• Be autonomous - this position comes with a lot of trust, to both keep an editorial calendar, meet deadlines, understand analytics and communicate with the copy desk, photo department and illustrators. You have to be able to do all of these things and do them well.
Have a fantastic network - a big part of this role is being someone who already has the network to be able to know which stories to tell. We want someone who is - and has been - part of the community they write about, that already knows who should be profiled, what places are beloved and what topics will hit a chord with locals and visitors.
• Be consistent - not only is this an idea-heavy job, it's a writing-heavy job, we want someone who can move the audience with their features, to give them smart, offbeat local items to keep them informe