Beacon Section Editor

This is not a Student Employment Position. This is a student volunteer experience. Volunteer experience participants receive monthly stipend payments.

• Has excellent writing and critical thinking skills
• Is insatiably curious, creative, and proactive about learning
• Is a good listener as well as a natural leader
• Is dependable, considerate, ethical, and emotionally mature
• Does not shy away from a challenge
• Can manage peers in a professional setting, holding them accountable
• Must be able to handle stress well, including short deadlines
• Reads journalistic media for fun and curiosity
• Keeps up with current events, pop culture, and UP student culture
• Is excited about multimedia as well as writing
• Has a good sense of humor, knows how to generate “fun” content
• Is a go-getter, strives for excellence, naturally goes above and beyond what’s expected
• Collaborates and communicates well in a team setting
• Is open to instruction
• Has at least one year of reporting experience
• Attends staff meetings Mondays and Thursdays at 5:45 p.m. unless there is a conflict with a class and the editor-in-chief approves the absence in advance. Beacon staffers are strongly discouraged from registering for classes that meet during those times.
• Serves on Editorial Board and attends Ed Board meetings on Wednesday nights.
• Plays leadership role as directed by adviser and editor-in-chief during Beacon Boot Camp training in August.
• Assigns reporters to feature stories including multimedia, enforcing deadlines.
• Ensures coverage is accurate, fair, ethical and allows for a wide range of representation of the campus community.
• Edits and posts Living section content throughout the week.
• Reports and writes stories for the Living section regularly (at least twice a month).
• Posts at least one multimedia piece (ie: video, slideshow, graphic) in the Living section per week.
• Coaches reporters on interviewing, reporting, and writing with assistance from the adviser.
• Is available to reporters via phone, Slack, text, and email and scheduled one-on-one meetings.
• Tags faith-related Living stories in the Faith & Fellowship section as well as in Living.
• Encourages and executes innovation in multi-platform storytelling.
• Monitors Living section content for accuracy and promptly posts all corrections and clarifications in the Living section when warranted.
• Oversees all recorded (podcasts, video) and live content for the Living section.
• Generates content ideas and coverage strategies for the Living section.
• Directs Community Engagement Editor on Living content in Beacon social media.
• Coordinates with Multimedia Editor in assigning Living section videos, photos, infographics.
• Encourages and executes innovation in multi-platform storytelling.
• Contributes two story ideas each week.
• Manages time well; thrives on a busy schedule.
• Must be able to handle stress well, including short deadlines.
• May be required to report and write occasional news stories.
• Serves on editorial board and attends its weekly meetings.
• May not be employed by UP Marketing or UP Athletics or on ASUP
• You must have at least a 3.0 GPA

Has worked previously for The Beacon

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University of Portland
5000 N. Willamette Blvd
Portland, Oregon

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