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Multi-Platform Producer - WPXI TV
Multi-Platform Producer - WPXI TV
Summary
WPXI TV Pittsburgh is looking for a Multi-Platform Producer who will work with a 24-7 team to monitor, gather, and create news content for use on all media platforms—TV, digital website, mobile applications, and social media.
Category
Digital Media
Producers
Social Media
Video Producer
Writers
Location
Greater Pittsburgh Area
Time Period
Full Time
Posted Date
Feb 26, 2024
Start Date
N/A
End Date
N/A
Job Description
WPXI TV Pittsburgh is looking for a Multi-Platform Producer who will work with a 24-7 team to monitor, gather, and create news content for use on all media platforms—TV, digital website, mobile applications, and social media. The right candidate will have a passion for news, discovering the facts and urgent reporting of those facts to the users and viewers of local news.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Gather content and see it through from online and on-air, to social distribution
- Responsible for logistics working directly with reporters, photographers, producers, managers, and the fellow content producers to cover the news of the day, as well as generate enterprise stories
- Responsible for monitoring a variety of “in” points for news—police, fire scanners, social media, email, internal wires, phone calls
- Plan and anticipate coverage
- Monitor police/fire scanners for multiple counties
- Field phone calls, monitor emails and scan multiple branded social media accounts for news tips from the public
- Dispatch crews to cover content for our digital, radio and television platforms
- Operate as an integral member of the content center team, and one of their primary responsibilities is to drive results to help us meet analytics-based goals and convert digital users into television viewers
- Distribute content on all platforms (broadcast TV, radio, digital apps, social media)
- Schedule may include nights, weekends and holidays, and overnights
Minimum Qualifications
- Keen sense of news judgement for each media platform—what drives audience on that platform
- Gather news through all platforms
- Excel at developing relationships and trust with contacts and sources
- Ability to handle other assignments as needed, showing flexibility, adaptability, problem solving skills, a person who collaborates with team members, with a positive, can-do attitude
- Understanding of Newsroom Logistics and ability to move crews
- Provide urgent writing of content for all platforms: TV, digital, and social.
- Willingness to evolve, learn new skills, innovative technology, embrace change
- Ability to prioritize a large volume of writing assignments based on urgency, platform needs and deadlines
- Knowledge of writing for all platforms—broadcast, digital, social, push alerts, radio
- Identify newsworthy content from scanners
- Ability to recognize trending stories online, provide timely updates for multiple platforms
- Must be social media savvy and possess thorough grasp of the use of social media for audience engagement
- Detail-oriented, highly organized planner
- Must be able to work any shift, including overnights, weekends
- Must be accessible to contact during big breaking news situations
- Strong understanding of grammar
- Good communication skills, work well with newsroom staff, and have technical knowledge of news gathering
- Strong editorial judgement, possess strong organizational skills and be digitally savvy
- Meet strict deadlines, be aggressive on breaking news and be self-motivated
Preferred Qualifications
- Degree in Journalism preferred
- Study in a relevant field required (Journalism, Communications, Social Media, Broadcast Technology, English)
Job Type
Full Time
Weekly Limit
N/A
Shift
Day, Evening, Overnight
Attached Files
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