Job description
NewsNation seeks a Senior Producer to join our growing team at NewsNation. The senior producer will play a key leadership role helping to devise the editorial and booking strategy and coordinate show production for a daily newscast. Candidates should be passionate about news and storytelling and creating compelling programming. The position is based at the network's headquarters in Chicago.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Assists anchor and executive producer in setting show’s editorial direction
Helps build rundowns for regular programming as well as breaking news and special programming
Coordinates the team: line producers, associate producers, writers, editors and other staff
Copy edits scripts and content
Serves as a senior leader in the control room
Helps implement training and best practices for team
Provides ongoing mentoring and support to staff
Manage editorial relationships and collaboration with other teams
Acts as Executive Producer in his/her absence
Performs special projects and other duties as assigned
Requirements & Skills:
Bachelor’s degree in journalism, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience
Five-plus years of editorial experience in a fast-paced environment for a national news program (broadcast, cable or digital) or in a top local market
Excellent writing and copy-editing skills
Line and segment producing experience
Strong organizational, and people skills are vital
The successful candidate will be a self-starter with excellent communication skills who brings lots of ideas to the table
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