Associate Producer, Digital Programming

Job Description

Associate Producer, CNN Digital Programming (Temporary)

Every great story has a new beginning. We're excited to announce that Discovery and WarnerMedia have combined to become Warner Bros. Discovery. WBD is a premier global media and entertainment company offering audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, sports, news, streaming and gaming. We're home to the world's best storytellers, creating world-class products for consumers. From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers and beyond, join us as we step into the next chapter.

CNN Digital is the most powerful news brand on the internet, reaching millions of people across platforms and around the world every day. We are journalists, designers and technologists, all united by a powerful mission to inform, engage and empower the world. Join the most trusted and recognized name in news and be a part of a dynamic global team of smart, collaborative and thoughtful journalists doing essential work at a critical time.

The Job
• Are you cool under pressure and creative?
• Can you craft a notification or headline to make any story interesting?
• Do you have a thirst for news and knack for making it understandable to regular folks?
• Do you have a passion for finding the perfect visuals to go with a story?
• Are you all about making news as engaging an experience as the rest of our digital lives?
• Then you should join the CNN Digital Programming Team as an Associate Producer (Temporary).
• We take the extraordinary content of CNN -- from text to videos to interactives -- curate and organize it for a digital audience, from CNN.com on phones and desktop to the CNN app and other platforms.

The Daily
• Programming Associate Producers are obsessed with finding that perfect alert, headline, image and curation for stories. They optimize homepages, social platforms and article pages.
• They take initiative to recognize programming needs, and they work with more senior team members to make sure the needs are met.
• They focus on CNN's hot-seat programming duties, including high-speed writing of accurate headlines, fast-paced news judgment and CMS ninja work. It also means writing audience-friendly notifications for social media, email and app.
• This position will require a high degree of flexibility with hours and a willingness to work nights and weekends.
• Programming Associate Producers are seen internally as go-to people for how to get compelling and essential journalism seen and shared. To that end, they think like readers/swipers/watchers/listeners and help connect disparate digital dots to the benefit of global audiences second-by-second, minute-by-minute.
• They are addicted to audience analytics and A/B testing and work to ensure CNN is meeting its revenue goals.
• Digital Associate Producers are ace collaborators, working with video and photo teams, social teams, the global digital news desk, vertical teams and beyond.
• They are excellent givers of feedback, and they participate in post-mortems and other conversations about sharpening our programming.
• They have a knowledge of digital content in many forms -- articles, videos, galleries, social content, interactives, podcasts, etc -- across the entire portfolio and create compelling digital packages for distribution on a wide range of platforms.

The Essentials
• Typically 2 or more years of related experience.
• Excellent writing and editing skills.
• The ability to work quickly under pressure and collaborate closely with others is essential.
• Willingness to work nights and/or weekends.

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@warnermedia.com.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r1zovy-3-15-205-14-42 in your application.