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Full Time Job

Sr. Producer

WTVF

Nashville, TN 11-07-2024
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
  • Senior (5-10 years) Experience
Job Description
Sr. Producer, WTVF

WTVF, The E.W. Scripps CBS affiliate in Nashville, Tennessee is looking for a Sr. Producer who will create, lead and organize content for multiple platforms utilizing strong editorial, journalistic, organizational and communication skills. The Sr. Producer will play a key role in helping to execute the station's content strategy through researching, developing, and planning stories. This may include live or prerecorded newscasts/local programs and editing or repurposing existing content to enhance the end product.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:
• Produce and organize newscasts and other local programs and events.
• Write story development and showcasing.
• Collaborate with reporters, anchors, news managers, producers, and assignment editors to determine content needs and storytelling direction for multiple platforms.
• Produce and execute unique content for special programs.
• Play a key role in providing training and coaching consistent with the content strategy to producers to develop their overall skill set.
• 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.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
• BS/BA in related discipline preferred or equivalent years of experience
• Generally, 5+ years of experience in related field preferred

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:
• Ability and desire to train others
• 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-dy6w40-3-139-86-53-42 in your application.

Company Profile
WTVF

The E.W. Scripps Company is a diversified media company focused on creating a better-informed world. As one of the nation’s largest local TV broadcasters, Scripps serves communities with quality, objective local journalism and operates a portfolio of 61 stations in 41 markets.