Page Designer

Description:

CNHI’S Indiana design center has an immediate opening for a full-time page designer. We operate a central design desk assembling pages for 21 newspapers in five states.

Applicants should be skilled in InDesign (we’ll take Quark if you’re able to make a quick transition) and you should have experience in newspaper page design. Have experience with the BloxTotalCMS system and you just moved to the top of the stack.

While the design center is physically located in the newsroom of The Herald Bulletin in Anderson, Indiana, we are mostly a remote operation. Thanks to a seamless digital connection to the hub, our designers work from home in multiple states. Should you live near Anderson and prefer an in-office environment, there will be a desk there with your name on it.

For this open position, we need someone who can churn out pages but also throw down a great A1. Speed and attention to detail are of equal importance.

Evening availability is necessary. This full-time position includes paid time off and available benefits: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, etc.

If all this sounds good to you, please email your resume and a couple examples of your work in page design to lucas.whitten@indianamediagroup.com. Please use “Design position inquiry” in the email subject header. Feel free to include a couple references as well. 

Position overview:

Design, paginate and proof news pages processed by the design center, assuring that they are attractive, informative and completed by deadline.  Work schedule may include nights, weekends and holidays.

Duties and responsibilities:

·  Use InDesign software and the Blox news content management system to lay out a steady stream of news pages, from beginning to end.

·  Proof completed news pages for accuracy and quality.

·  Recognize and fix errors in content submitted by satellite newsrooms.

·  Meet advance and breaking news deadlines.

·  Work collaboratively with satellite newsrooms to ensure copy flow timeliness and consistency

Education, Training and Skills Required:

·  Associate's degree in journalism or related field.

·  Alert news sense, strong design and pagination skills, journalistic judgment to catch and correct errors, ability to write news headlines, and experience in meeting multiple news deadlines.

·  Knowledge of Adobe InDesign, PhotoShop and related news software programs.

·  News design and pagination background in an internship or student media.

Preferred Qualifications

·  At least one year of experience designing newspaper pages