Digital News Producer, Chron
Required skills
- digital-first news publisher
- audience team
- daily coverage
- site experience
- journalism
- news writing
- quick-turn stories
- breaking news
- trending topics
- speed
Nice to have
- audience growth
- verification
- light additional reporting
- Sunday coverage
- Deputy Managing Editor
- Audience Editor
Role summary
Chron is seeking a Digital News Producer for its audience team to drive daily coverage, optimize site experience, and expand audience reach. This hybrid role involves writing quick-turn news stories, producing shareable video content, and managing distribution across social platforms, with a focus on emerging channels. The ideal candidate has strong news judgment, understands audience engagement, and can work with content management systems and audience analytics tools. A minimum of 2 years of digital newsroom experience is required, along with a solid grasp of journalistic standards and AP Style. Familiarity with Houston and Texas news is essential.
Digital News Producer, Chron
Are you a fast, digitally savvy journalist who thrives at the intersection of breaking news and audience growth? Join Chron’s audience team and help shape how our stories reach and engage readers across Houston and Texas.
Job Description
Chron, a digital-first news publisher, is seeking a Digital News Producer to play a critical role on our audience team, helping drive daily coverage, optimize the site experience, and ensure our journalism reaches the widest possible audience. This is a hybrid role combining audience production and fast-turn news writing.
The ideal candidate has strong news judgment, understands what audiences are searching for and sharing in real time, and can quickly turn around clean, accurate and buzzy stories and video rooted in verification and light additional reporting.
This role is scheduled Sunday–Thursday and will serve as the lead audience producer on Sundays. This person will report to the Deputy Managing Editor of News & Sports, with a dotted line to Chron’s Audience Editor.
What will you do?
Write 2–3 daily quick-turn stories, including breaking news and trending topics, with a focus on speed, accuracy, and strong headlines Shoot and edit timely, highly shareable video that connects with audiences off platform Serve as the lead audience producer on Sundays, helping guide coverage, distribution, and real-time decisions Package and distribute Chron content across social platforms to drive traffic, with a focus on emerging and secondary platforms such as Reddit and Nextdoor Track newsletter cadence and performance, identifying gaps, trends, and opportunities, and regularly sharing insights with the audience manager What will it take to be successful?
Minimum 2 years of experience in a digital newsroom as a digital content producer, reporter, or audience producer Strong news judgment, particularly regarding issues that Texans care about, and the ability to prioritize quickly in a fast-paced environment Proven ability to write clean, accurate, and engaging news stories on tight deadlines Experience with breaking news and/or trending content workflows Familiarity with content management systems and digital publishing tools Understanding of audience metrics and tools such as Google Trends, Google Analytics, or Marfeel Solid understanding of AP Style and journalistic standards Strong communication and collaboration skills across newsroom teams Interest in Houston and Texas news and an understanding of what resonates with local audiences
