Job Description
CBS Stations is hiring a Senior Digital Producer to lead all aspects of digital coverage for CBS Atlanta! The ideal candidate is a strong digital leader with excellent editorial judgment who has experience driving digital content strategy.
Responsibilities include managing a small team of digital producers, guiding the day-to-day editorial decisions for CBS Atlanta on CBSNews.com, and producing article and video content across all digital platforms. You should be comfortable balancing breaking news with more enterprise and investigative reporting, working with the newsroom to deliver the best that CBS Atlanta has to offer across the digital platforms that exist today and the ones that may exist tomorrow.
Your day-to-day:
• Determine daily digital content priorities and work with the CBS Atlanta digital team to carry out that content across CBSNews.com
• React quickly to breaking news, writing, editing and publishing articles and running live blogs
• Work with CBS Atlanta newsroom management to develop enterprise content and tentpoles across digital platforms
• Manage and mentor a team of three digital producers
• Build content strategies on new and emerging digital platforms, working with leadership to determine how best to perform on those platforms
• Proactively plan content around key news events and tentpoles
• Track content performance and share content insights across the newsroom to help inform story selection
What you bring to the team:
• You have 5+ years of experience in a digital breaking news environment and a proven ability to react quickly as news develops
• You are a skilled writer and editor with a deep understanding of content framing across platforms
• You're passionate about the future of journalism, always looking to better understand digital opportunities for news organizations
• You're deeply familiar with analytics platforms like Google Analytics, Omniture, Chartbeat and Parse.ly
• You thrive in a collaborative team environment
The schedule for this role is Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
Organizations that wish to receive job vacancy notices from this posting's television station should contact sf_recruitingsupport@paramount.com.
Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-j66xvb-216-73-216-182-42 in your application.