Summary
NewsNation seeks a Senior Producer to join the growing team at News Nation. The senior producer will play a key leadership role helping to devise the editorial and booking strategy and coordinate show production for a primetime newscast.
Category
Producers
Location
Greater Chicago Area
Time Period
Full Time
Posted Date
Sep 02, 2022
Start Date
N/A
End Date
N/A
Job Description
Candidates should be passionate about news and storytelling and creating compelling programming. The position is based at the network's headquarters in Chicago.
Responsibilities:
- Assists anchor and executive producer in setting show’s editorial direction
- Helps build rundowns for regular programming as well as breaking news and special programming
- Coordinates the team: line producers, associate producers, writers, editors and other staff
- Copy edits scripts and content
- Serves as a senior leader in the control room
- Helps implement training and best practices for team
- Provides ongoing mentoring and support to staff
- Manage editorial relationships and collaboration with other teams
- Acts as Executive Producer in his/her absence
- Performs special projects and other duties as assigned
- 5+ years of editorial experience in a fast-paced environment for a national news program (broadcast, cable or digital)
- Excellent writing and copy-editing skills
- Segment producing experience
- Strong organizational, and people skills are vital
- The successful candidate will be a self-starter with excellent communication skills who brings lots of ideas to the table
- Bachelor’s degree in journalism, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience
Job Type
Full Time
Weekly Limit
N/A
Shift
Day