Senior Producer - Spectrum News NECN

About the role

As a Senior Producer, you'll play a crucial role in the newsroom by making editorial decisions, fact-checking scripts, and creating show rundowns. You will use data to inform these decisions and determine the news stories that will air each day. Along with your editorial duties, you will serve as the heart of the newsroom - leadership, inspiration, and feedback will be important aspects of your role.

What Our Senior Producers Enjoy Most

• Developing strong leadership and management skills
• Reading, writing, and copyediting scripts
• Making data-informed decisions
• Initiating and controlling plans for breaking news

Responsibilities

Spectrum News NECN covers MA, NH, ME, VT, RI, and CT. We use innovative journalistic approaches, backed by comprehensive research, to engage and inform viewers on the most essential news, issues, and events taking place in their communities. Beyond TV news distribution, our newsrooms publish via the Spectrum News app and connected television. We're committed to providing viewers with 24-hour news—no matter how, when, and where they want it.

Qualifications

Experience: Television news producing - 4+ years, Line producing - 3+ years

Education: Bachelor's degree in Broadcast Journalism, Communications, or related field, or comparable television work experience

Technical Skills: Knowledge of current events, and familiarity with the local market and industry trends

Skills: Strong attention to detail and passion for news, must be able to lift up to 5 pounds

Travel Ability: Must be open to travel to discover the important stories in your neighborhood and willing to interact with the community

Schedule: Ability to work various shifts, longer shifts, weekends and holidays, and be flexible with schedule changes due to "breaking news", and/or severe weather emergencies

Working Conditions: Works primarily inside a climate-controlled environment throughout the year but might be assigned occasional field duties. Semi-noisy newsroom environment.

Pay

The base pay for this position generally is between $81,800.00 and $131,000.00. The actual compensation offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. We comply with local wage minimums and also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of other incentive-based compensation such as bonuses.