Producer

Position Overview

Cox Media Group (CMG) is looking for a Producer who will work with a 24-7 team to monitor, gather, and create news content for use on all media platforms—TV, digital website, mobile applications, and social media. This position is responsible for producing a daily newscast distributed across all CMG markets through our OTT platforms, as well as working directly with the WSB news team on daily newscasts. The right candidate will have a passion for news, discovering the facts and urgent reporting of those facts to the users and viewers of local news.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

•    Gather content and see it through from online and on-air, to social distribution
•    Responsible for logistics working directly with reporters, photographers, producers, managers, and the fellow content producers to cover the news of the day, as well as generate enterprise stories
•    Responsible for monitoring a variety of “in” points for news—police, fire scanners, social media, email, internal wires, phone calls
•    Plan and anticipate coverage
•    Monitor police/fire scanners for multiple counties
•    Field phone calls, monitor emails and scan multiple branded social media accounts for news tips from the public
•    Dispatch crews to cover content for our digital, radio and television platforms
•    Distribute content on all platforms (broadcast TV, radio, digital apps, social media)
•    Schedule may include nights, weekends and holidays, and overnights

Minimum Qualifications

•    Degree in Journalism preferred
•    Study in a relevant field required (Journalism, Communications, Social Media, Broadcast Technology, English)
•    Keen sense of news judgement for each media platform—what drives audience on that platform
•    Multi-platform mindset—Gather news through all platforms
•    Newsgatherer mindset—Excel at developing relationships and trust with contacts and sources
•    Team Player—needs to be able to handle other assignments as needed, showing flexibility, adaptability, problem solving skills, a person who collaborates with team members, with a positive, can-do attitude
•    Understanding of Newsroom Logistics and ability to move crews—we are a content distributor not just a newsroom
•    Provide urgent writing of content for all platforms: TV, digital, and social.
•    Sense of Urgency—ability to work under pressure
•    Willingness to evolve, learn new skills, innovative technology, embrace change
•    Ability to prioritize a large volume of writing assignments based on urgency, platform needs and deadlines
•    Knowledge of writing for all platforms—broadcast, digital, social, push alerts, radio
•    Identify newsworthy content from scanners
•    Ability to recognize trending stories online, provide timely updates for multiple platforms
•    Must be social media savvy and possess thorough grasp of the use of social media for audience engagement
•    Detail-oriented, highly organized planner
•    Must be able to take direction
•    Must be able to work any shift, including overnights, weekends—the newsroom is 24/7
•    Must be accessible to contact during big breaking news situations and “all-hands-on-deck” are needed
•    Strong understanding of grammar, spelling, ability to make cold calls, ask questions
•    Good communication skills, work well with newsroom staff, and have technical knowledge of news gathering
•    Strong editorial judgement, possess strong organizational skills and be digitally savvy
•    Ability to work under pressure, meet strict deadlines, be aggressive on breaking news and be self-motivated
•    Possess a sense of urgency, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and news judgment