Senior Producer, Opinion

Job Description

The Job

We are looking for an experienced Senior Producer to join our CNN Opinion team. CNN Opinion is a world-leading forum for insightful, illuminating and provocative points of view tied to the news. This fast-growing team works with outstanding thinkers, leaders, experts and authors to craft commentary that makes sense of life in the 21st century in all its aspects.

The Daily
• Developing ideas for opinion pieces on major international issues, identifying potential writers, commissioning and editing their work, fact checking, writing headlines, identifying potential links and shepherding the work through the editing/vetting process
• Producing opinion articles and selecting related photos, videos and graphic elements. Posting newly published pieces on CNN Opinion's social media and working with CNN's programming team to place pieces appropriately
• Finding new ways to involve the community of CNN Digital readers internationally in the Opinion section
• Working cooperatively with the rest of the Opinion team, the international digital team and international news gathering and with all CNN other platforms, shows and units, including Standards & Practices, to maximize the quality and impact of international commentary in the Opinion section

The Essentials
• Proven editing/reporting experience in print, online or in broadcast
• Strong news judgment and lively interest in worldwide news of government, politics, business, culture, science and the arts
• Must be capable of quickly reading and absorbing news developments from many sources and creatively conceptualizing ideas for opinion pieces, then working cooperatively with potential writers
• The ability to critically edit articles on complicated subjects for accuracy
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