Digital Executive News Producer

Job Description

Digital Executive News Producer - WCTV

About WCTV:

WCTV covers about 19 counties in North Florida and South Georgia. Our station is based in the Florida state capital, and our DMA is a fast-paced and exciting environment. From state politics, to breaking news, severe weather and college sports- we cover it all! We are a team of passionate journalists in a well-established newsroom. Rising talent has the opportunity to work with, and learn from, experienced team members.

You can find out more about our market and our station by watching our new recruitment video: https://vimeo.com/725777901

Job Summary/Description:

The Digital EP will lead the charge on content, tracking engagement/consumption, and building up ''WCTV Now,'' which is a digital news desk that we use to stream live content to services like Roku and Fire TV. In the first year using the digital desk, we hit 10M+ views. WCTV is recruiting a driven, competitive, and digitally savvy newsroom leader to help us engage and expand our online audience. As the dominant station in the Tallahassee-Thomasville DMA, we lead the market across all platforms. Our website averages more than 3 million pageviews a month, and our social media pages reach hundreds of thousands of users. Whether it's breaking news, weather, politics or college sports-our loyal viewers expect us to be the first outlet they hear from, and their habits are changing.

Duties and responsibilities include, but not limited to:
- Managing a 3-person digital team, plus digital interns
- Generating content ideas for WCTV.tv, our social pages, and our streaming desk
- Collaborating with news, weather and sports on planning and executing deadline driven content for our digital audience
- Writing and editing daily content, and approving drafts from others in the newsroom
- Training new hires on writing and posting across our platforms
- Collaborating with other newsroom managers on editorial decisions and coverage plans for big events
- Coordinating with reporters in the field or Gray affiliates in other markets as needed
- Monitoring and regularly presenting progress reports to station management on viewer metrics and growth

Qualifications/Requirements:
- 2+ years in a television newsroom, preferably as a digital content producer
- BS/BA in journalism or communications
- A valid driver's license and good driving record

Come join our dynamic news team, go to https://gray.tv/careers#currentopening, you may type in the job title, station call letters, or click on ''apply now'', upload your resume, cover letter and references

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r0z6je-3-137-187-233-42 in your application.