[Hiring] Senior Producer @KSHB / KMCI / The EW Scripps Company

Role Description

Scripps Producer Hub is looking for someone to REMOTELY produce content for stations across the country. This position is temporary (approx. 2 mo) and this individual hired can expect to work through the holidays.

• Champion current and new technologies and provide training on those technologies in assigned markets.
• Develop, organize and write local content for 24/7 station streams across Scripps local media markets.
• Work directly with local station news leadership and other key employees to select the most up-to-date information for the daypart.
• Use solid news judgement and creativity to produce a dynamic product following the Scripps content strategy.
• Assess current workflows and work with key newsroom employees to implement changes that improve effectiveness and efficiencies.
• Execute time sensitive decisions with independence and clear messaging.
• Act as an ambassador for the Scripps Content Strategy.
• Oversee newscast and up-to-the-minute editorial decisions.
• Exercise creativity, open to sharing ideas, and execute on creating content in a new and unique way.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in related discipline preferred or equivalent years of experience
• Generally 6+ years of experience as a television news producer preferred

Requirements

• Avid news consumer, knows where to find news and how to get up to speed on local news happening in Scripps markets across the country
• Excellent time and priority management skills, highly organized, and deadline-driven
• Able to build relationships quickly, communicate clearly, and influence without authority
• Experience with editing software in a newsroom environment
• Strong critical thinker with the ability to adapt on the fly in challenging situations
• Ability to make decisions independently
• Creative and curious to learn new styles of producing news
• Big-picture thinker
• Ability and desire to learn and test new technology

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