Producer, International
CNN
Atlanta, GA
DESCRIPTION:
Seeking a smart, creative, and enthusiastic Booking Broadcast Associate with a desire to learn and develop booking skills. This Broadcast Associate pitches new stories, follows leads, makes calls on stories to verify information and book guests, conducts pre-interviews, and facilitates logistics on a wide variety of stories, including breaking news.
Candidates must have newsroom experience, editorial skills, as well as a desire to build relationship skills. This position requires high energy and persistence, as well as a basic understanding of TV newsgathering. The ability to effectively communicate is essential. Candidates must be flexible with travel requirements and changing schedules as the position will, at times, require working in the field on short notice where breaking news is unfolding.
This is a freelance position located in Dallas or Atlanta
QUALIFICATIONS:
• Bachelor's Degree in Journalism or related field
• Experience in a professional newsroom
• Must have solid news judgment and experience chasing breaking news.
• Strong research skills including working with public and private records databases, such as Lexis Nexis, is preferred
• Must be an excellent writer with well-developed oral communication skills, especially when working on sensitive stories
• Must be able to juggle and prioritize multiple stories with different deadlines: short, medium, and long-term
• Must have the ability to manage ongoing relationships with external contributors, news outlets, and other stakeholders
• Must be a team player with a positive attitude
• Thrives in high-pressure and time-critical situations
• Passion for news, journalism, and storytelling
• Desire for field experience is preferred.
• Bilingual-Spanish preferred
FUNCTION: Operations
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gw8ez2-54-81-157-133-42 in your application.
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