Digital Streaming News Producer

Job Description

Digital Streaming News Producer

About Gray Media:
Gray Media, or Gray, is a multimedia company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, formally known as Gray Television, Inc. The company is the nation's largest owner of top-rated local television stations and digital assets serving 113 television markets that collectively reach approximately 36 percent of US television households. The portfolio includes 77 markets with the top-rated television station and 100 markets with the first and/or second-highest-rated television station, as well as the largest Telemundo Affiliate group with 43 markets totaling nearly 1.5 million Hispanic TV Households. The company also owns Gray Digital Media, a full-service digital agency offering national and local clients digital marketing strategies with the most advanced digital products and services. Gray's additional media properties include video production companies Raycom Sports, Tupelo Media Group, and PowerNation Studios, and studio production facilities Assembly Atlanta and Third Rail Studios.
About KNOE:
KNOE-TV 8 News is an award-winning television station and news organization located in Monroe, Louisiana, covering northeast Louisiana, Union and Ashley Counties in Arkansas, and Warren and Adams Counties in Mississippi. KNOE-TV is owned by Atlanta-based Gray Local Media and is a sister station to ABC affiliate KAQY. Our offices and studios are located on Oliver Road in Monroe, and our transmitter is located in the town of Columbia in Caldwell Parish. Since our first broadcast day on September 27, 1953, KNOE-TV has offered the best news, entertainment, weather, sports, and investigative reporting. Besides providing high-quality programming from both the CBS and ABC television networks, we also offer programs from the Gulf Coast Sports and Entertainment network. For further information, please visit www.knoe.com.
Job Summary/Description:
KNOE-TV 8 is searching for the next Digital Content Producer to join our award-winning, fun-loving team. The ideal candidate is a driven and dedicated journalist with strong writing skills who loves to write! The candidate will help compose engaging social media posts and help with our streaming platforms.
Duties/Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Demonstrate excellent writing, copy-editing, and storytelling skills
- Write accurate and compelling web articles
- Use Associated Press style on a daily basis
- Break news with accurate and timely push notifications through the KNOE apps
- Craft thoughtful and eye-catching text, photo, and video posts for Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms
- Research story ideas from viewer calls, emails, or direct messages
- Brainstorm and carry out creative ideas to increase web traffic and audience engagement
- Design compelling and engaging graphics and visual elements to help our journalists communicate their stories
- Operate KNOE's Streaming Live Desk to stream events for the audience
- Collaborate and communicate with reporters, other digital team members, producers, anchors, reporters, and managers to gather content for online and on-air
Qualifications/Requirements:
- The successful candidate will be creative, extremely detail-oriented, and have very strong problem-solving, multi-tasking, and communication skills
- Positive and professional attitude in a fast-paced and dynamic environment under deadline pressure
- Able to work well with a team
- Flexible to work mornings, nights, and weekends
- Working knowledge of web and social media platforms
- A desire to grow in a newsroom
- A bachelor's degree in communications or journalism
- At least one internship in a newsroom is a plus
- Strong grasp of visual design, grammar, and spelling
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, cover letter, and references
(Current employees who are interested in this position can apply through the Gray-TV UltiPro self-service portal)
KNOE-TV/Gray Media is a drug-free company

Gray Media encourages all new employees to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus virus before the first workday.
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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-neexp3-216-73-217-10-42 in your application.