Jordan Ray-Hart Email & Phone Number

Houston, TX, US

Houston, Texas, United States

• Oversee daily operations, workflows and tools that enable our journalists to do their best work
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the Hearst Product Team and the HNP’s DevHub to advocate for newsroom's needs and communicate centralized workflow changes to the newsroom

Houston, Texas

• Managed the planning, production and promotion of the newsroom’s most important, ambitious, and high-converting projects
• Worked with newsroom leaders to optimize day-to-day practices across departments
• Facilitated coordination with Hearst’s DevHub on reader-first interactives designed to grow subscribers

Houston, Texas

• Led a team of reporters to produce daily, audience-first content with the goal of driving visits, engagement and subscriptions to HoustonChronicle.com
• Evaluated trends using analytics and Google data to help inform content decisions, all while maintaing the same journalistic standards as the rest of the newsroom

Houston, Texas

• Ran homepage and optimized story packaging during the weekdays. Worked with newsroom editors to plan content production and promotion
• Filled in when needed with writing stories, running social media platforms, sending app and email alerts, and preparing newsletters

Fort Worth, Texas

• Ran 15+ social media accounts and handled the bulk of packaging for sports stories across the region (Fort Worth, Kansas City, Wichita and Belleville)
• Created strategies for engagement and monitored analytics alongside a team of 7 other regional producers

Fort Worth, Texas

• Served on the Star-Telegram's web team, focused primarily headline writing, social media, content packaging, search optimization and digital strategy

San Antonio, Texas

• Ran nearly all of the day-to-day web operations for LMTonline.com, including site management, social media, content creation and analytics analysis, from the Express-News newsroom
• Collaborated with the mySA.com team to create stories that would appeal to audiences in multiple Texas markets
• Byline accounted for nearly 31% of LMT’s total pageviews over a 7-month period

Houston, Texas

Washington, D.C.

Fort Worth, Texas

Houston, Texas

Master Of Science (M.S.), Journalism

Activities and Societies: Medill News Service, Knight Lab, On The Clock: Medill's NFL Draft Podcast, Medill Explores: San Francisco

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Journalism

Activities and Societies: TCU 360, Beta Upsilon Chi, Catholic Community, Awakening Retreat, Schieffer School in Washington, TCU Sports.

High School

Activities and Societies: Wrestling, Football, National Honor Society, School Newspaper, Kostka Club, Kairos Retreat