Job Description
NewsNation seeks a Senior Producer to join the growing team at News Nation. The senior producer will play a key leadership role helping to devise the editorial and booking strategy and coordinate show production for a daily news program. Candidates should be passionate about news and storytelling and creating compelling programming. The position is based at the network's studios in New York City.
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
Other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
Ten or more 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 required, line producing experience a plus
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
Salary Range: $120,000 – $135,000 Annualized.
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gk0630-3-12-34-178-42 in your application.