Senior Producer, Political Programming

Job Description

NewsNation Senior Producer, Political Programming (Washington, DC)

NewsNation seeks a Senior Producer to join the network and work on forthcoming political programming. The senior producer will play a key role helping to devise the editorial and booking strategy and help coordinate show production for the program. Candidates should have strong editorial judgement and be comfortable managing a control room. The position is based at the network's offices in Washington, DC

Duties & Responsibilities:
• Works with executive producer and anchor in setting show's editorial direction
• Pitches story ideas and makes guest booking suggestions
• Help build rundowns for regular programming as well as breaking news and special programming
• Helps coordinate the team: segment producers, associate producers, writers, and other staff
• Copy edits scripts and content
• Serves as a senior leader in the DC control room
• Manage editorial relationships and collaboration with other teams
• Helps implement training and best practices for show team
• Provides ongoing mentoring and support to members of the show team
• Acts as Executive Producer in his/her absence
• Performs special projects and other duties as assigned by network management

Requirements & Skills:
• Five to ten more years of editorial experience in a fast-paced environment for a national news program (broadcast, cable or digital)
• Line producing and segment producing experience a plus
• Must be self-directing, self-motivating and able to work will with a diverse group of people
• Must be detail-oriented
• Must have strong organizational skills
• Must have excellent writing and copy-editing skills
• Must have considerable line producing experience
• Segment producing and package producing experience are also helpful
• Must be able to handle high pressure and high intensity situations with poise and maturity
• Must be able to work assigned shifts including weekends and be on call during overnights, mornings and weekends/holidays

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