Summary
NewsNation seeks a Senior Producer to join the growing team at NewsNation. The senior producer will play a key leadership role helping to devise the editorial and booking strategy and coordinate show production for a daily news program.
Category
Producers
Writers
Location
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Time Period
Full Time
Posted Date
Jan 25, 2023
Start Date
N/A
End Date
N/A
Job Description
Candidates should be passionate about news and storytelling and creating compelling programming. Candidate should also have extensive experience covering politics and policy. The position is based at the network's studios in Washington, DC.
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
Qualifications:
- 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