News Designer
- Full-time
Company Description
Star Tribune Media Company is Minnesota’s largest producer and distributor of news, information and advertising across multiple print and digital platforms, including newspaper, website, mobile, tablet and video formats. The Star Tribune newspaper and StarTribune.com regularly reach more than two-thirds of the adults in the Twin Cities market or more than 1.7 million people. The company has been serving the Minneapolis/Saint Paul market for more than 145 years, providing trusted local and regional news and information produced by the largest force of professional journalists in the state. Star Tribune has more than 1,000 employees.
Job Description
We are seeking to add a talented visual journalist to our design team. This person will be expected to design pages for our News sections, Business sections and Sports sections. He or she will work closely with design leaders, section editors and team leaders to produce newsy, dynamic and compelling pages. This person must excel at seeing new, accessible ways to present information and tell stories. He or she must be able to design with flair but also serious journalistic purpose. This designer must adapt to the ebb and flow of the news. He or she must be nimble enough to design high-profile pages as well as crank out detailed inside pages. This creative person should bring new ideas to our team and help us develop new ways to hook readers.
This position is covered under our contract with the Newspaper Guild and pays $36,730 to $69,152, based on experience.
Qualifications
Proven visual communication and collaboration skills are all a must. The ideal candidate will be striving to master page design, typography and the layering of information to attract readers of various interest levels. He or she will work well with picture editors and content editors to find a perfect marriage of visuals and words for our news, sports and business sections. We use InDesign, PhotoShop and Illustrator regularly at the Star Tribune, and fluency in those applications is preferred.
Inquires: Email AME/Visuals Derek Simmons ([email protected]) or ME/Operations/Recruitment Duchesne Drew ([email protected]).
Please DO NOT submit your applications to Derek or Duchesne. To apply, you must submit your materials through our website by clicking the link below.
Additional Information
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