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Nexstar Media Group Senior Producer, NewsNation Now in New York, New York
NewsNation seeks a Senior Producer to join the growing team at News Nation. The senior producer will play a key leadership role helping to devise the editorial and booking strategy and coordinate show production for a daily news program. Candidates should be passionate about news and storytelling and creating compelling programming. The position is based at the network's studios in New York City.
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
Other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
Ten or more years of editorial experience in a fast-paced environment for a national news program (broadcast, cable or digital)
Excellent writing and copy-editing skills
Segment producing experience required, line producing experience a plus
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
Bachelor’s degree in journalism, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience
Salary Range: $120,000 – $135,000 Annualized.
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST) is a leading diversified media company that produces and distributes engaging local and national news, sports and entertainment content across television, streaming and digital platforms, including nearly 300,000 hours of original video content each year. Nexstar owns America’s largest local broadcasting group comprised of top network affiliates, with 200 owned or partner stations in 116 U.S. markets reaching 212 million people. Nexstar’s national television properties include The CW, America’s fifth major broadcast network, NewsNation, America’s fastest-growing national news and entertainment cable network reaching 70 million television homes, popular entertainment multicast networks Antenna TV and Rewind TV, and a 31.3% ownership stake in TV Food Network. The Company’s portfolio of digital assets, including The Hill and BestReviews, are collectively a Top 10 U.S. digital news and information property. In addition to delivering exceptional content and service to our communities, Nexstar provides premium multiplatform and video-on-demand advertising opportunities at scale for businesses and brands seeking to leverage the strong consumer engagement of our compelling content offering. For more information, please visit Nexstar.tv.
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