Take advantage of a fantastic opportunity with WBTW News 13, the unrivaled media powerhouse in the Myrtle Beach-Florence region. We have an immediate opening for a News Producer to join our award-winning newsroom.
We are looking for a creative, organized, and driven journalist who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about producing compelling local news. This is more than just a job. It is an exciting career opportunity with Nexstar Media Group, where you will play a key role in shaping daily newscasts and informing the communities we serve.
As a News Producer, you will produce daily newscasts by selecting and organizing stories, determining the order in which they are presented, writing teases and other compelling content, timing news programs, editing video, and posting content to the station website. The ideal candidate will have strong news judgment, excellent writing skills, the ability to meet tight deadlines, and a commitment to producing accurate and engaging broadcasts.
WBTW News 13 is seeking a Newscast Producer. This role is responsible for the complete execution of daily newscasts across broadcast and digital platforms. The ideal candidate has strong writing and communication skills who can collaborate positively with reporters, anchors, and production teams to deliver compelling, accurate, and showcase-value broadcasts.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Newscast Production: Conceptualize, structure, and stack daily newscasts, determining the strategic order and precise timing of stories.
- Content Creation: Write engaging, broadcast-ready scripts, teases, and copy for anchors, ensuring strict adherence to journalistic standards and accuracy.
- Control Room Leadership: Serve as a calm, decisive leader in the control room, effectively managing breaking news, severe weather coverage, and real-time rundown adjustments.
- Team Collaboration: Partner productively with reporters, photographers, assignment desks, and the graphics team to coordinate visual elements and streamline news delivery.
- Multi-Platform Distribution: Produce content across all platforms, including editing video clips and writing stories for the station website and digital applications.
Requirements & Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Journalism or Communications is preferred but not required.
- Strong editorial judgment, excellent proofreading capabilities, and precise time management skills under tight deadlines.
- Ability to work a flexible schedules.
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Nexstar Media Group is America’s largest local television and media company with 197 full power stations (including partner stations) in 115 markets addressing nearly 63% of US television households and a growing digital media operation. Nexstar’s platform delivers exceptional local content and network programming to inform and entertain viewers, while providing premium, scalable local advertising opportunities for advertisers and brands across all screens and devices. Learn more at www.Nexstar.tv.
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Skills Required
- Strong editorial judgment
- Excellent writing and communication skills
- Excellent proofreading capabilities
- Precise time management under tight deadlines
- Ability to work flexible schedules
- Bachelor's degree in Journalism or Communications
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is presented as comprehensive, covering medical, dental, vision, behavioral health, and an Employee Assistance Program. Disability and life insurance are also available, with optional protections like accident and critical illness coverage noted.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is offered and was expanded to provide up to six weeks of paid time for eligible employees. Family-support resources are complemented by mental‑health and EAP services.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, sick leave, and standard holidays are provided, with vacation that typically scales with tenure. These programs form part of a conventional large‑employer benefits menu.
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Insights
What We Do
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.
