Producer

Job Description

• NewsNation seeks a Senior Producer to join the growing team at News Nation. The senior producer plays a key leadership role on a show team helping to devise show editorial and booking strategy and coordinating show production. Candidates should be passionate about news and storytelling and creating compelling programming. The position is based at the network's headquarters in Chicago.

Responsibilities:

Assists anchor and executive producer in setting show's editorial direction

Helps build rundowns for regular programming as well as breaking news and special programming

Coordinates the team: line producers, associate producers, writers, editors and other staff

Copy edits scripts and content

Serves as a senior leader in the control room

Helps implement training and best practices for team

Provides ongoing mentoring and support to staff

Manage editorial relationships and collaboration with other teams

Acts as Executive Producer in his/her absence

Performs special projects and other duties as assigned
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Additional Job Description

Qualifications:

5+ years of editorial experience in a fast-paced environment for a national news program (broadcast, cable or digital)

Excellent writing and copy-editing skills

Segment producing experience

Strong organizational, and people skills are vital

The successful candidate will be a self-starter with excellent communication skills who brings lots of ideas to the table

Bachelor's degree in journalism, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r1bqqe-3-146-255-127-42 in your application.