Date Posted September 16, 2024
Industry Newspapers
Specialty Not Specified
Job Status Full-time

Description:

Wick Communications is seeking a creative, efficient and organized page designer to join our central newspaper pagination team. 

In this role, you’ll design pages for daily newspapers and specialty products across our full portfolio of markets. 

Responsibilities: 

  • Produce assigned news pages on deadline with high accuracy 

  • Communicate effectively with design team members 

  • Coordinate with advertising staff to produce page dummies 

  • Work with local newsrooms to budget and proof news content

  • Create and manage templates for highly used page elements

  • Attend regular team meetings

Qualifications: 

  • Mastery of InDesign is a must

  • Newspaper page layout experience is required 

  • Experience producing feature layouts (e.g. magazines, specialty pages, highly designed section fronts) is also required

  • Experience working with Blox CMS is strongly preferred

This full-time role is based in Tucson, but we’re open to remote work for the right candidate. The schedule is generally Monday to Friday with very occasional nights or weekend work. Our benefits package includes medical and dental insurance, paid vacation time and 401k retirement options.

Please send a resume and portfolio to Publishing Operations Manager Yaritza Vazquez at yaritza.vazquez@wickpagination.com

About Us

Wick Communications is a third-generation family-owned local media company based in Arizona. We operate local websites, newspapers and specialty publications in 25 markets across the West.

When applying, mention you saw this opening listed at JournalismJobs.com.