Digital Content Manager

Job Description

Digital Content Manager - WCTV

About WCTV:

WCTV is the dominant #1 CBS affiliate in Tallahassee, with a coverage area of about 19 counties in North Florida and South Georgia. We are a team of hungry, passionate journalists in a well-established newsroom. Rising talent has the opportunity to work with, and learn from, experienced team members. The expectations are high, and we recognize how important our work is to the community we serve. The right candidate can expect to cover everything from major political headlines to severe weather and heartfelt features. Hard work and quality storytelling is highly valued, appreciated, and rewarded. If you feel ready to take the next step in your career, and look forward to being challenged, we'd love to hear from you.

Job Summary/Description:

WCTV is recruiting a driven, competitive, and digitally savvy newsroom leader to help us engage and expand our online audience. As the dominant station in the Tallahassee-Thomasville DMA, we lead the market across all platforms. Our website averages more than 3 million pageviews a month, and our social media pages reach hundreds of thousands of users.

Whether it's breaking news, weather, politics or college sports-our loyal viewers expect us to be the first outlet they hear from, and their habits are changing. The Digital EP will lead the charge on content, tracking engagement/consumption, and building up ''WCTV Now,'' which is a digital news desk that we use to stream live content to services like Roku and Fire TV. In the first year of our digital team using the digital desk, we reached more than 10 million views.

Duties/Responsibilities include (but not limited to):
- Managing a 3-person digital team, plus digital interns
- Generating content ideas for WCTV.tv, our social pages, and our streaming desk
- Collaborating with news, weather and sports on planning and executing deadline
driven content for our digital audience
- Writing and editing daily content, and approving drafts from others in the
newsroom
- Training new hires on writing and posting across our platforms
- Collaborating with other newsroom managers on editorial decisions and coverage
plans for big events
- Coordinating with reporters in the field or Gray affiliates in other markets as
needed
- Monitoring and regularly presenting progress reports to station management on
viewer metrics and growth

Qualifications/Requirements:
- 2+ years in a television newsroom, preferably as a digital content producer
- BS/BA in journalism or communications
- A valid driver's license and good driving record

Come join our dynamic news team, go to https://gray.tv/careers#currentopenings, you may type in the job title, station call letters, or click on ''apply now'', upload your resume, cover letter and references

(Current employees that are interested in this position can apply through the Gray-TV UltiPro employee portal)

WCTV-TV/Gray Television Group, Inc. is a drug-free company

Gray Television encourages all new employees to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus virus prior to or by the first workday.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rjpvy2-18-189-186-244-42 in your application.