News Producer

Job Description

About KYTV:

KY3 is part of a seven-station group in Springfield, MO. KY3 is one of the most dominant NBC affiliates in the country. KY3/KSPR covers 31 counties in southwest Missouri and northwest Arkansas. We are proud of our close connections with the communities we serve in the Ozarks.

Job Summary/Description:

The KY3 and KSPR newsroom in beautiful Springfield, MO is looking for a dynamic, energetic television news producer. The right employee will oversee the overall direction of the newscast including pre-production, graphics, content and writing. We love creative producers who don't just stack and write a newscast, but showcase each story. Must bring story ideas to the table daily and be able to write excellent conversational stories. This newsroom is a combined ABC, NBC and CW station with nine hours of news a day, and a combined staff of 20 MMJs. Our focus is on a lot of local news. It is essential that you be able to maintain a level of calm and make quick decisions in intense pressure situations.

Duties/Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Prioritize, organize, and produce newscasts following the station brand and goals
• Responsible for writing clearly, concisely and very conversationally
• Must maintain working knowledge of current events, community issues, and extensive list of local contacts
• Accurate video editing with an eye for visual elements and graphics that makes stories understandable to the viewer
• Responsible for developing original story ideas for daily newscasts
• Special emphasis on working with reporters on story treatment, and be able to accurately gather information for news stories under pressure
• Act as a leader in facilitating teamwork of staff members working on your specific newscast
• Able to accurately and calmly handle decision-making process, especially in the control room
• Must possess excellent communication and organizational abilities, including working with the News Director to ensure story accuracy, and to determine the best presentation of reports
• Responsible for creating a unique approach to all digital elements for the newscast, including: Facebook page, Twitter, website
• Copy/edit stories on the websites while checking newscast scripts
• Must be willing to work flexible hours, including evening, weekends, and holidays as needed
• Must create ''Anchor moments'' in newscasts, do break-outs of stories with reporters
• Must post additional content (stories, links, video, polls, etc.) to the web and/or Facebook daily
• Make regular beat checks
• Work nights, weekends, and holidays as needed
• Performs other incidental and related duties as assigned and attention to detail is required
• Must train on adding breaking news and other stories to kspr.com, our social media pages, and learn to send out breaking news alerts

Qualifications/Requirements:
• Can take charge in the newsroom to lead the team for your newscast and take charge in the control room when timing newscasts to add and quickly write breaking news
• Strong initiative and attention to detail
• Be able to write clearly and accurately; great grammar
• Able to work well under sometimes intense pressure and tight deadlines
• Ability to maintain professional and ethical conduct at the station and in the community
• Ability to work with limited supervision
• Must possess excellent interview and conversational writing skills
• Ability to maintain a positive work atmosphere by behaving in a manner that will work well with co-workers, supervisors and viewers
• Ability to keep up with national and local news/weather is required
• Ability to enterprise local hard-news stories is required
• Computer knowledge, including newsroom software, Microsoft applications and Internet use
• Produce newscasts including: stacking, writing scripts, editing copy, ordering graphics to fit stories, making maps, coordinating live shots with directors, production staff, reporters & photographers
• Edit video and audio on industry standard equipment
• Demonstrate solid news judgment and journalistic ethics
• Must possess web writing skills and basic knowledge of web posting software
• Basic knowledge of social media
• Ability to break-out stories with extensive anchor tags
• Ability to maintain a positive work atmosphere by behaving in a manner that will work well with co-workers, supervisors, and customers
• Must enterprise hard-news, research-based stories at daily news meetings
• Stay current with national and local news/weather
• Must have the desire to be at work during big breaking news, weather coverage and special event coverage

If you feel you're qualified and want to work with a great group of people 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, and references

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

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gwz4k2-3-147-65-65-42 in your application.