WGN-TV is searching for a Digital Supervising Producer with the right mix of news judgment, creativity, and command of all things digital and social.
Responsibilities:
- Prepares, writes, copy-edits and posts news, sports, community, programming and promotional content from television and other sources for the web site, mobile platforms, and social media sites
- Curates original story ideas and content
- Writes headlines that grow audience and engagement
- Maintains the home page and builds special sections for breaking news and other ongoing coverage efforts
- Produces videos to accompany online articles
- Monitors real-time metrics to guide content decisions and reach goals for pageviews and video views
- Administers and moderates social media pages including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
- Works closely with news, programming, promotions, and sales departments
- Ensures factual, grammatical and legal accuracy online and upholds the station’s established journalistic standards to avoid editorial bias
Requirements and Skills:
- Two (2) years of experience as a digital news producer or related experience
- Must be familiar with Wordpress and AP writing style
- Must have strong news judgment and work with the assignment desk to plan daily stories and content
- Excellent writing and editing skills, attention to detail
- Familiarity with news writing and journalistic standards
- Ability to function under extreme deadline pressure
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Salary Range:
65K to 75K Annualized - - commensurate with applicant's experience and skill level
Benefits: Our comprehensive benefits package includes, but not limited to, medical (with multiple plan options), dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, a 401(k) with company matching contributions, Paid Parental leave, life insurance and more.
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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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