- Directly supervise digital producers and collaborate with other newsroom staff, review stories and provide feedback to encourage powerful, visual storytelling
- Manage and coordinate breaking news
- Collaborate with the News Director, news managers, and other station personnel as assigned
- Plan, execute and oversee continuity and strategy for website and social platforms
- Manage the team by coaching, providing ongoing feedback, completing annual reviews, facilitating schedules and time cards, training and development.
- Management experience creating engaging content across multiple platforms
- Extraordinary people skills with an emphasis on coaching, motivating and teaching
- Strong understanding of how to grow and maintain digital/social traffic
- At least 5 years in a television newsroom environment or equivalent
- A college degree in Journalism or a related field
- Strong AP-style writing skills and a proven track record for getting results on station goals
- Understanding how to interpret content brand without resorting to clickbait
- Ability to utilize digital analytics and apply them to set goals
Skills Required
- Management experience creating engaging content across multiple platforms
- Strong coaching, motivating, teaching, and interpersonal skills
- Understanding of digital and social traffic growth and maintenance
- At least 5 years of television newsroom experience or equivalent
- College degree in Journalism or a related field
- Strong AP-style writing skills and a record of achieving station goals
- Understanding of content branding without relying on clickbait
- Ability to interpret digital analytics and apply findings to set goals
Sinclair Broadcast Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sinclair Broadcast Group and has not been reviewed or approved by Sinclair Broadcast Group.
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, vision, mental health support, telehealth, and employer-paid life and long-term disability are described as broad and solid. Feedback suggests coverage starts relatively early for full-time employees and provides strong baseline security.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan are part of the standard package. Feedback suggests these programs contribute meaningful long-term financial support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, parental leave, holidays, sick leave, and personal days are outlined as part of the offering. Job postings indicate a structured PTO allotment that appears reasonable for a large employer.
Sinclair Broadcast Group Insights
What We Do
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is one of the largest and most diversified television broadcasting companies in the country. Sinclair owns and operates, programs or provides sales services to more television stations than anyone and has affiliations with all the major networks. In addition, Sinclair is the leading local news provider in the country, as well as a producer of sports content. Sinclair owns a multicast network, four radio stations and a cable network. Sinclair’s broadcast content is delivered via multiple-platforms, including over-the-air, multi-channel video program distributors, and digital platforms. Sinclair, either directly or through its venture subsidiaries, makes equity investments in strategic companies. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. was founded in 1986, went public in 1995 and is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol SBGI. Throughout our history, Sinclair Broadcast Group has been at the forefront of industry-changing events and technological advances. Our vision and first-to-market mentality drives our ‘next generation’ thinking; stimulating conversations, innovating through our expertise, and advocating for the development of technology and evolving business models. As a leading over-the-air broadcast television company, our primary business is to engage consumers on multiple platforms with relevant and compelling news, entertainment and sports content, and to provide advertisers and business efficient means and value to connect with our mass audiences. We recognize the vital role broadcast television plays in branding and local content delivery, and therefore strive to constantly be at the forefront of leading edge technology and structures to advance the industry.
