News Producer

Job Description

About WCJB:

WCJB TV20 is the market leader, with viewers relying on us for news, weather, and sports coverage from Your Local Station. Along with the market's strongest news ratings, and ever-expanding digital platforms, we deliver results for our advertisers. Gainesville is a sports town, and we cover our local high school sports teams with the same fervor we bring to our constant coverage of Florida Gator sports.

Job Summary/Description:

WCJB TV20 is now -time News currently accepting applications for a full-time News Producer to join the #1-rated news team in North Central Florida.

We're looking for a producer who wants to join a great news station with a chance to learn quickly through on-the-job training and hopefully move up within our operation.
You'll be producing urgent, impactful shows, writing stories, editing, and taking an active role in producing social media and web content.

A Bachelor's degree in a related field is helpful and not required.

General Responsibilities:
• Prioritize, organize, and produce newscasts
• Maintain working knowledge of current events, community issues, and local contacts

Qualifications:
• Demonstrate solid news judgment
• Maintain strong journalistic ethic
• Strong initiative and attention to detail
• Be creative and create compelling and memorable newscasts
• Knowledge of newsroom software
• Knowledge of web posting software
• Strong research skills, including online research using various search engines
• Ability to stay current with national and local news/weather
• Intermediate-level knowledge of social media
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and work well under pressure
• Ability to work independently with little supervision

Interested applicants can, go to https://gray.tv/careers#currentopenings, you may type in the job title, station call letters, or click on ''apply now'', upload your cover letter, resume, and references

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gpvnje-3-141-198-146-42 in your application.