Summary
If inventing the future of news sounds like a good reason to get out of bed and go to work in the morning, then take a look at the nitty gritty bullets below and get in touch. Resumes are helpful, sure, but seeing your work is what it’s all about. And if your current body of work so far doesn’t paint the right picture of you, then make us something else. But hurry. We’ve got a lot to do
Category
Producers
Location
Greater New York City Area
Time Period
Full Time
Posted Date
May 10, 2021
Start Date
N/A
End Date
N/A
Job Description
The bulk of the job:
Be ready to share fresh ideas and a point of view about how to engage the OTT audience – what are the big stories they will find exciting, interesting and compelling?
Help to define the voice of the network and then work with talent, reporters and producers to make sure they speak the language we invent fluently
Captain the control room (it’s frenetic in there so if frenetic is not your thing, you should probably stop reading here)
Develop and create a pipeline of live programming our audience will want to watch and lead the execution of that content though editorial planning and operations management
You’ll have a team of producers, APs, and PAs all looking to you for guidance, editing, and calm in a news storm
Qualifications/Requirements
• Journalism (enough said)
• You’ve got a nose for a story, the research skills to report
it, the writing skills to tell it, and the news judgment to
green light it or kill it
• Control room management
• You work fast, but things get really good when news is
breaking and time to air is getting short
• When the news cycle calls you answer, even on
weekends or late nights or after you’ve already put in a
long day
• At least 10 years of your working life have been spent
doing a job that resembles this one, and at least 3 of
those years should have been in and around a control
room with just as many years of team management
• You have a great sense of humor, or you can recognize
one when you see it
• You have big thoughts and the courage to voice them
• You work with a diverse group of colleagues across
business lines and levels – and enjoy it
• You’re a leader who understands what quality means to
production and writing in a news environment
• You have a Bachelor’s degree
• You are willing to work in New York, New York
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Job Type
Full Time
Weekly Limit
N/A
Shift
N/A