Lisa Hix
Experienced Journalist | Copy Editing, Editing, Reporting, Managing, Features Writing, Proofreading
- Role
- Copy Chief at The San Francisco Standard
- Location
- Oakland, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Lisa Hix
Lisa Hix is a versatile, enterprising journalist with a knack for developing articles and headlines that engage a broad audience, draw clicks and diversify the reader base. She\'s known to have the emotional intelligence to write features that resonate, manage writing teams and explain grammatical errors. She\'s adept with detail, insistent on accuracy and able to think quickly on her feet in high-pressure assignments. Skills: Content editing, news reporting, feature writing, social media management, copy-editing, managing teams, storytelling, headline writing, big-picture thinking, newsletter writing, proofreading, WordPress.
Experience
Copy Chief
Oct 2022 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Copy edit every story that is published, from breaking news and investigative articles to arts features. Check facts, read for AP Style and correct spelling, grammar and syntax.• Update the company\'s style guide, creating guidelines specific to San Francisco and California. Discuss best practices for topics like race, gender, homelessness and disability with editors.• Put on presentations about common errors at staff meetings. Create personalized style sheets and hold grammar consultations for individual reporters and their editors.• Optimize headlines for SEO. Write captions and social media display text. Participate in daily meetings to tweak headlines to increase page views.• Edit in Google Docs, WordPress, Datawrapper, MailChimp, Shorthand and more.• Serve as a member of the editorial leadership team, the style committee, the crime coverage committee and the committee on employing AI and other new technology.• Work as a breaking news editor, and a breaking news reporter, on odd weekend shifts.
Education
University of Oklahoma
B.A., Journalism and Mass Communication
1994 — 1998
Find verified contacts for anyone on LinkedIn
Unifers gives sales teams verified emails and direct dials, enriched profiles, and outreach that lands in the inbox.
Free plan included · No credit card required
This profile is compiled from publicly available professional sources. Unifers is not affiliated with or endorsed by LinkedIn. Request removal of this profile.