Job Title: Student Worker - Lariat Opinion Editor AY27
Job Classification: Marketing and Communications, Student
Department: Student Publications
Hiring Manager: Terri Evans
Contact: terri_evans@baylor.edu
Work Schedule: 20 hrs per week
Desired Length of Employment: Fall/Spring
Pay Rate: $9.00 per hour
Job Description:
$4,000 scholarship per semester
The opinion editor oversees all content in the daily editorial section, incorporating a wide variety of viewpoints that reflect the diversity of our readers. The goal of the opinion page is to produce a robust dialogue with our audience through editorials, staff columns, guest columns, letters to the editor and other special features.
The opinion editor is the chair of the editorial board.
DUTIES:
- Design and manage content for the opinion page
- Runs weekly editorial board meeting
- Writes weekly editorials and occasional column
- Edits staff and reporter columns for content, grammar and Associated Press style
- Monitors the Lariat and Lariat Letters email accounts and makes decisions regarding publication of letters to the editor
- Solicits reader feedback through a variety of methods, including online polls/surveys and social media
- Pushes opinion content to the web
- Oversees the Lariat cartoonist
- Enforces goals and deadlines
Employer: Baylor University
Work Location: Castellaw Communications Center/Rm 232
Work Address: 219 Baylor Ave, Waco, TX 76706