Digital Producer

Responsibilities

• Edit, produce and publish content, optimizing for SEO and digital best practices.
• Edit sensitive content for clarity, fairness, legal issues, spelling, grammar, punctuation and style.
• Work with reporters and editors on projects to produce in-depth storytelling packaging.
• Use metrics to determine traffic patterns and make changes tied to the data.
• Familiarity with Parse.ly and Google Analytics products a plus.
• Manage azcentral.com’s home pages, programming desktop and mobile, and send alerts to engage a loyal audience.
• Manage workflow to meet deadlines.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in communications, journalism or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 1-3 years of experience working for a daily news organization.
• Excellent news judgment.
• Top-notch writing, editing and headline-writing skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Proven experience with advanced storytelling techniques on multiple platforms.
• Effective communicator; able to get along with diverse personalities.
• Able to multitask and excel under intense deadline pressure in a rapidly changing industry.
• Able to work early morning, night or weekend shifts.