We’re looking for an Associate Producer who thrives in a fast‑paced newsroom and is excited to help build compelling, competitive newscasts for Chicago and its surrounding communities. If you love collaboration, value feedback, and understand that strong television news is a true team sport — especially when news doesn’t stop on weekends or during off‑hours — we want to meet you.
This role works closely with Producers, Directors, Anchors, Reporters, and Digital teams to stack, write, and edit video for daily newscasts and local programming. You’ll play a key role in shaping our storytelling, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and strong visual presentation under deadline pressure.
Responsibilities:
- Assist with multiple production needs across broadcast and digital platforms
- Stack, write, and edit content for multiple newscasts during a shift
- Collaborate with reporters on scripts, packages, and live shots
- Contribute to editorial decision‑making, including graphics and visual elements, particularly during breaking news
- Research stories using the internet, video archives, and newsroom resources
- Help showcase big stories in a clear, compelling, and visually engaging way
- Edit video and assist in producing new or expanded newscasts
- Post stories and segments to digital platforms as assigned
- Serve as a fill‑in Producer when needed
- Always maintain ethical journalism practices and newsroom content standards
Requirements:
- Minimum of three (3) years of newsroom experience in a television news environment
- Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communications, TV/Film, or equivalent experience
- Strong writing skills with excellent grammar, attention to detail, and sound news judgment
- Ability to work under deadline pressure and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
- Strong understanding of visual, written, and verbal storytelling
- Ability to collaborate effectively with producers, reporters, anchors, photographers, digital, production, and engineering teams
- Strong sense of journalistic integrity and understanding of audience needs and expectations
- Knowledge of brand‑building directives and newsroom standards
- A team‑first mindset with a willingness to learn, adapt, and support the newsroom
- Flexibility to work weekends and varied shifts as newsroom demands require
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SALARY RANGE: $60K - $70K Annualized - commensurate with applicant's experience and skill level
Benefits: Our comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees includes, but not limited to, medical (with multiple plan options), dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, Paid Parental leave, life insurance and more.
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Nexstar Media Group is the largest TV station operator in the country. With the reach of 171 full power television stations in 100 markets addressing nearly 38.9% of US television households, and a diversified, growing digital media operation, Nexstar Media Group offers superior audience engagement across all media devices and local broadcast television’s unrivalled influence on consumers’ purchasing and political decisions. In 20 years, Nexstar has grown from a single station to the nation’s largest television company. This growth is fueled by an organization-wide commitment to delivering exceptional service to our communities and outstanding results for our advertisers. From the very beginning, Nexstar has cultivated an organization-wide commitment to providing superior, unique local content that is relevant to each of the communities it serves, while offering local businesses, advertisers and brands the ability to engage and connect with local communities.
