Hub Producer, Remote

Job Description

The E.W. Scripps Co is looking for a creative Hub Producer who will work remotely. The Hub Producer will work with our innovative team of Senior Producers to provide vacation relief. This person will produce shows for local stations, provide digital assistance, and have the opportunity to work on larger projects centered around station support. This position requires schedule flexibility, including weekends, evenings, and overnight shifts when needed.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:
• Develop and organize newscasts or local programs.
• Write story development and showcasing.
• Collaborate with reporters, anchors, news managers and assignment editors to determine content needs.
• Enhance content with graphics, video, research, and station branding.
• Execute time sensitive decisions.
• Oversee live broadcast and up to the minute editorial decisions.
• Perform desktop editing.
• Post content to station's Web sites.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• May help with station training to improve the broadcast product and support local producers.
• WHAT YOU'LL BRING:
• BS/BA in related discipline preferred or equivalent years of experience.
• 2-4 years producing news preferred.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
• Avid local news consumer: knows daily news, events, trends and happenings on a local level.
• Strong vision and ability to advance stories.
• Excellent interpersonal communicator.
• Extraordinarily passionate about writing; courageous and creative storyteller with attention to even tiny details - choosing the perfect words, grammar, spelling.
• Highly organized.
• Highly adaptable - fast paced, deadline driven environment.
• Strong self-motivation.
• Working knowledge of journalistic ethics and libel laws and strong editorial judgement.
• Able to use web analytics.
• Proficient with newsroom computer systems, MS Office a plus.
• Flexible work hours are required, including holidays, weekends and evenings.

If you are a current Scripps employee, please do not apply on this site. Please access our internal career site at Worklife > My Info > View Open Positions at Scripps.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rb02ey-3-141-27-244-42 in your application.