Assignment Editor/Digital Content Producer

About the role

KSNW is looking for a dynamic journalist who thrives on breaking news, enterprise stories, and implements urgent coverage on broadcast, digital and streaming platforms. The ideal candidate understands how to cover spot news with urgency and attention to detail, and has an understanding of cross-platform, multi-media coverage, including broadcast, digital, social media and streaming apps, like KSN+.

You should be a highly motivated, organized, multi-tasker with excellent news judgment and instincts, able to find stories that will make our content unique and distinctive. Strong communication skills with newsroom staff and field crews, natural leadership during breaking news, a curious mind, and investigational skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with news team to make coverage decisions
• Assign, communicate, and coordinate logistics for story coverage including dispatching crews
• Assist with newsgathering and research for stories through calls, text, email
• Lead the charge on mining social media, confirming information to disseminate to the newsroom
• Be the voice to viewer calls and the face to KSN guests/interviewees
• Coordinate interviews and segments for broadcast and digital platforms, including podcasts, live newscasts and taped segments
• Write/publish/edit digital stories for multiple platforms, including social media, website and streaming apps
• Coordinate streaming coverage and scheduling of live events, breaking news and podcasts with digital team
• Keep the newsroom organized and functioning seamlessly
• Coordinate communication and content sharing between Nexstar Stations
• Lead special event planning and other advance credentialing

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience
• Fluency in English; bilingual Spanish a plus
• Superior organizational skills
• Ability to meet deadlines, prioritize assignments, and handle multiple tasks
• Strong decision-making and leadership abilities
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience in news operations preferred
• Strong understanding of digital platforms, including social media and streaming
• Proficiency with newsroom, digital and streaming computer systems, editing, camera equipment, computers, telephones, and other office equipment; willingness to learn new systems
• Flexibility to work evening and other shifts as assigned