News Producer

Job Description

News Producer, KSTU

KSTU, The E.W. Scripps Company FOX affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah, is seeking an experienced News Producer to join our team. As a News Producer, you will play a crucial role in shaping the daily news agenda, crafting engaging stories, and overseeing the execution of our newscasts.

Salt Lake City is a vibrant hub of outdoor recreation, with easy access to world-class skiing, hiking, and other adventure activities. The city also boasts a thriving arts and cultural scene, with a variety of museums, performing arts venues, and a lively culinary landscape. If you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and are passionate about delivering high-quality news content, we encourage you to apply.

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 websites.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
• BS/BA in related discipline preferred or equivalent years of experience
• Generally, 2+ years of experience in related field preferred

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:
• 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 may be 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-reeqx1-18-224-54-148-42 in your application.