Digital News Producer

Position Responsibilities

• Develops and leads winning strategy for station content
• Expert understanding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok
• Reviews copy and corrects errors in content, grammar, and punctuation, following prescribed editorial style and formatting guidelines
• Utilize social media and station website to build and reinforce brand recognition
• Research and analyze background information related to news stories in order to be able to provide complete and accurate information
• Gather information about events through research, interviews, experience or attendance at political, news, sports, artistic, social or other functions
• Pitches local and trending stories during morning meetings
• Opportunity to shoot and edit content for digital platforms
• Ensures that all content meets company standards for journalistic integrity and production quality
• Writes stories for the web and other digital platforms
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Finds new ways to use social media and station website to engage with viewers

Requirements & Skills

• Bachelor's degree in journalism; news website experience required; live, working web samples preferred
• Proficiency in AP Style, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Express, Canva and other graphical software preferred
• Adobe Analytics and Google Trends experience a plus
• Familiarity with OBS preferred
• Maintain positive work environment through active team participation and cooperation with co-workers in all departments
• Responds positively to feedback

Typical Day

• Maintain awareness of external social media conversations and manage our own posts across all accounts throughout the day while also scheduling holdable content for off hours
• Regular metric analysis and reporting will result in constant updates to strategy that need to be communicated, focusing on updated messaging to different groups weekly
• Play a central role in the execution of our evolving newsletter strategy

Measurements of Success

• Deliver stories quickly, accurately, and often
• Provide a central role in story idea discovery and generation for the local and regional team
• Consistently seek to grow audience to your bylined stories
• Grow the social media base of the station and regularly promote links to stories

Pay

$16.00 – $17.00/hour, commensurate with experience.