Senior Producer, Video, News Now

Job Description

Senior Producer, Video, News Now (Hallie Jackson Show)

Responsibilities

We are launching a new show on NBC News Now and need a creative, passionate team of journalists to make the magic happen every night.

The bulk of the job:
• Figure out how we are going to approach the big stories of the day
• Oversee enterprise tape pieces with a strong background in a digitally native newsroom
• Identifying the right angles for reporter hits and guest segments
• Flagging the best elements - if it pops, we want it and we want your help finding it
• You're on top of the news. All the time. And eager to jump on it
• Make the scripts your producers write much better
• Help to define the voice of the network and then work with talent, reporters and producers to make sure they speak the language we invent fluently
• You'll have a team of producers, APs, and PAs all looking to you for guidance, editing, and calm in a news storm

Qualifications/Requirements
Qualifications/Requirements :
• Journalism (enough said)
• Demonstrated strength to manage a control room
• Must be willing to work in New York, NY
• Proven and demonstrated a nose for a story, the

research skills to report it, the writing skills to tell it, and

the news judgment to green light it or kill it
• Ability to work fast, but things get really good when news

is breaking and time to air is getting short
• 6+ years of your working life have been spent doing a job

that resembles this one – with ideally 2+ of those years

as a prior manager with being in and around a control

room.
• When the news cycle calls you answer, even on

weekends or late nights or after you've already put in a

long day
• You have big thoughts and the courage to voice them

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g338qn-3-133-147-87-42 in your application.