This role is responsible for updating WTNH's website and mobile app, curating high-performing content, crafting homepage layouts driven by data, and helping to report news -- everything from quick-hit local stories to breaking news and enterprise reports. This role will work on building a loyal local audience by being responsive to traffic patterns and audience interest while serving as a steward of our brands. A strong knowledge of social media platforms is expected. This role may include working early mornings, nights, and/or weekends.
This is not an on-air position.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Report and write news quickly and accurately
- Distribute content on WTNH.com and WTNH’s social media platforms
- Monitor all forms of media and hunt for newsworthy content
- Pitch and write enterprise stories that stand out from competition
- Clip videos from newscasts and create digital-original video clips
- Review copy and correct errors in content, grammar and punctuation, following prescribed editorial style and formatting guidelines
- Push engaging and breaking stories on mobile app
- Other duties as assigned
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SKILL/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
- 2 years of experience in digital content and journalism
- Must have attention to detail, copy editing, grammatical and basic AP Style writing skills
- Highly detail-oriented with excellent news judgment
- Ability to multi-task in times of breaking news, severe weather, etc.
- Adobe Analytics and Chartbeat experience a plus
- Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere experience a plus
- Understands social media’s importance in reporting stories and delivering traffic
- Can communicate, coordinate and collaborate with other members of the newsroom
- Schedule flexibility
- Responds well to feedback
- Regularly meets measurements of success
- Understands goals and regularly works towards achieving them
What We Do
Nexstar Media Group is the largest TV station operator in the country. With the reach of 171 full power television stations in 100 markets addressing nearly 38.9% of US television households, and a diversified, growing digital media operation, Nexstar Media Group offers superior audience engagement across all media devices and local broadcast television’s unrivalled influence on consumers’ purchasing and political decisions.
In 20 years, Nexstar has grown from a single station to the nation’s largest television company. This growth is fueled by an organization-wide commitment to delivering exceptional service to our communities and outstanding results for our advertisers.
From the very beginning, Nexstar has cultivated an organization-wide commitment to providing superior, unique local content that is relevant to each of the communities it serves, while offering local businesses, advertisers and brands the ability to engage and connect with local communities.
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