News Producer

Job Description

Is this the role for you?

What will you be doing?

CBS News London bureau is looking for a News Producer to join its team providing foreign news from around the world. News producers are the first to be deployed to a breaking news story and do regular rotations on long-term major news stories. On deployment, they guide their correspondent and camera teams to generate original packaged and live content for delivery to all platforms across CBS News, Stations, Online, Radio and Streaming. These assignments regularly involve travel to extreme high-risk environments. When in London these roles work as catching producers who also pitch stories. From conceiving and selling a story, it is their job to get a budget approved, arrange staffing and logistics, set up interviews, coordinate transmission, and approve the final versions of the material. They are also regularly tasked to plan and coordinate major event coverage and anchor remotes, plus assisting on occasion with the running of the bureau operation. The Producer will be a creative, productive, effective, resilient problem solver both in the bureau and in the field.

What are we looking for?
• Experience in covering news in extreme hostile environments.
• Ability to research and gather information
• Ability to generate a news story
• Develop contacts with newsworthy and interesting individuals.
• Cultural integrity working in other countries and possessing sensitivity to local issues and agendas, and awareness of appropriate behaviour
• Experience covering both Western and local military forces
• Ability to write a television, online and radio news scripts under pressure
• Flexibility to travel at short notice, potentially for extended periods of time.
• Ability to ''catch'' incoming material and assemble the work of other teams deployed globally for CBS News.
• Ability to operate field equipment including small cameras and satellite phones
• Ability to transmit on location using LiveU, Starlink and Satcube amongst other softwares
• Ability to select the rushes to feed on location
• Ability to source verifiable video and stills from user generated images, in coordination with the CBS Confirmed team
• Ability to record voice tracks and deliver to CBS News using different systems/apps.
• Familiarity with all aspects of protection including emergency first aid
• Willingness to report from the field if the correspondent is unavailable.
• As representatives of CBS News the producer must be respectful and considerate of their colleagues
• The producer must respect CBS News Standards and Practices and comport
• Substantial experience as a travelling and catching news producer
• Excellent communication, writing, planning, logistics and analytical skills
• Ability to work remotely often in challenging areas
• Ability to cultivate sources and enterprise stories
• Understanding of how to gather elements and pull together scripts for tv, radio and online platforms
• Strong leadership, organisational and decision-making abilities.
• Open to work long hours as news dictates which could include working on regular days off, weekends and overnight
• Strict adherence to the highest journalistic standards and dedication to upholding CBS News values
• Strong teammate mentality, willing to go beyond job description for CBS mission success.
• Resilient with the ability to maintain morale in difficult and stressful situations
• Foreign language skills are appreciated

APPLICATION DEADLINE - SUNDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2025

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