Digital Content Producer

Job Description

KGTV, The E.W. Scripps Company ABC affiliate in San Diego, CA, is searching for a Digital Content Producer to join our team. In this role you will be responsible for quickly crafting online content, including breaking news and community impact stories, that drive audience engagement and web traffic across multiple platforms. Exceptional writing, video editing, and social media skills are a must for success in this role. Additionally, you will work closely with the Assignment Desk to ensure comprehensive coverage of local news and events that are important to the San Diego community.

Located along the sparkling Pacific Ocean, San Diego boasts stunning beaches, world-class surf spots, and a thriving outdoor recreation scene, offering endless opportunities for adventure and exploration. Beyond the coastline, the city's diverse neighborhoods showcase a vibrant arts and music scene, and renowned culinary destinations that attract visitors from around the globe. Apply today for an opportunity to join our team in beautiful San Diego.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:
• Turn breaking news, enterprise stories, press releases, third party sources, or news tips into unique articles on the web, including but not limited to headlines, thumbnails, short news alerts and teases, interactive embedded elements, outside links, maps, slideshows and custom modules.
• Partner with and perform Assignment Desk duties, as assigned.
• Post articles to social media to drive engagement and web clicks.
• Cut video and assign engaging metadata for YouTube, website, app, OTT and third-party services.
• Build and monitor livestreams to various platforms.
• Edit platform-specific social media graphics to showcase storytelling.
• Assist in online coverage of major news events, breaking news and severe weather to ensure high quality, consistent community coverage online with attention to grammatical detail.
• Build out special sections and site features to enhance coverage and increase user engagement.
• Update and interact with fans/followers on social media.
• Actively collaborate with editorial and technical staff to bring expertise and facilitate the migration of multimedia content to new media platforms, including video, audio, vertical video, still photos and graphics.
• Optimize the user experience by tracking live web metrics and user experience best practices.
• Apply Search Engine Optimization (SEO) best practices to every piece of content.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
• BS/BA in related discipline preferred or equivalent years of experience
• Generally 3+ years of experience in related field preferred

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:
• Skilled with content management systems, hypertext markup language (HTML), audio editing, image editing, cascading style sheets (CSS) and social networking
• Must have a strong desire to focus on web-based content
• Must have basic HTML formatting skills and working knowledge file transfer protocol (FTP)/publishing web content
• Must be creative, have good collaboration and relationship-building skills, and be able to handle deadline pressure and multi-tasking
• Must have working knowledge of how to use and update social media platforms
• Must have photo editing skills with ability to manipulate, crop, enhance images as needed for publishing on website
• Must have demonstrated experience with creative video editing for social and web platforms with a knowledge of video editing software
• Strong grammar skills and attention to detail

COMPENSATION RANGE:
Hourly: $30.04 - $31.85

Pursuant to state and local salary transparency laws, the salary range posted is specific to candidates who will perform this work in California.

ADDITIONAL BENEFITS:
• A career path to grow your professional experiences
• Full medical, dental and vision benefits, as well as certain other health and wellness benefits
• Retirement savings plan with company match
• Other key company benefits include disability accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, life insurance, AD&D, ID protection, pet discount program, and employee assistance program. More details about timing and conditions of benefits eligibility and other plan terms and conditions will be provided upon hire.

If you are a current Scripps employee, please do not apply on this site. Please access our internal career site at Worklife > My Info > View Open Positions at Scripps.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gp94kx-52-15-165-239-42 in your application.