Digital Executive Producer

Job Description

Nexstar Media Inc. has an immediate opening for a Digital Executive Producer who wants to propel a newly formed duopoly's digital presence into a power news player in the Washington, DC DMA (Market # 9).

The Digital Executive Producer (EP) is responsible for daily management and training of web producers, web reporters and social media producers in the local newsroom and across the bureaus. The successful candidate will partner with senior newsroom leadership to oversee and improve the daily packaging of all digital editorial content published and distributed across the WDVM/WDVW sites and media platforms with the goal of increasing user interactivity and traffic -- particularly in-DMA users. We are looking for an audience expert that understands how to grow distribution platforms to maximize readership. Flexibility to perform various duties and pitch in to ensure these sites are competitive around-the-clock. Ability to jump into the mix and create high-performing content as needed.

Washington, DC is the center of the nation's politics, but there is a huge local news landscape beyond the beltway. The region offers a high quality of life with some of the best museums in the country, year-round theaters, concerts, street festivals and more. The region is also a sports mecca with professional basketball, baseball, football, hockey, soccer and more. The region is home to National Parks, bike trails, and the district has been widely recognized for is early adoption of high-tech transportation options like e-bikes and e-scooters. Washington, DC also boasts an incredible food scene with more than twenty restaurants receiving Michelin stars in 2021 alone. This is a great place to live, a busy news market, and a great place to grow your career.

Position Responsibilities
• Attends local editorial meetings and serves as bridge between broadcast and digital in local newsroom
• Trains, coaches, and manages team of local digital journalists
• Excellent at writing buzzy headlines that increases pageviews and packaging content that grows pageviews per visitor and time on site.
• Works with web producers to assure steady stream of interesting content is packaged in an interactive way and promoted in a way that generates reader interest.
• Evaluates website traffic trends in effort to make decisions on both daily content and longer-term content development that will grow in-DMA traffic.
• Leads team members responsible for planning and implementing special coverage projects (severe weather, breaking news, enterprise digital content databases and projects).
• Monitors major news websites, local and state news websites, blogs and social media for breaking news and trending topics.
• Promotes news content on social media.

Skill/Experience Requirements
• 5 years of experience gathering or producing news and information with 3 years of experience working primarily on the web.
• Experience building online databases (investigative, elections, weather, etc.)
• Organized, technical problem solver and quick decision maker
• Enjoys working in teams and has excellent interpersonal skills
• Ease with/ability to learn new technology independently and quickly
• Ability to take direction and quickly implement new ideas
• Comfortable adapting to changes in evolving industry and thrives under pressure
• Self-motivated, competitive spirit and assertive personality with ability to balance multiple competing projects and priorities
• Schedule flexibility (nights, weekends)
• Strong understanding of Google Analytics; Chartbeat experience a plus
• Proficiency in MS Office a must; HTML, CSS and Photoshop experience a plus

Education Requirements
• Bachelor's degree.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gwmm6n-3-143-168-172-42 in your application.