A friendly, affordable midwestern city with so much to offer. Work, play, and enjoy life in the “Gem City.” Dayton is known as the birthplace of aviation, and features a mecca of restaurants, festivals, museums, sports teams and entertainment. Forbes named Dayton one of the top 20 best cities to live in as a career professional. Trulia ranked Dayton the #2 least expensive city to live in out of the top 100 metropolitan areas in the country. Come join a growing team and affordable midwestern city.
The Senior News Producer supervises news content and line produces at least one hour of news, produces daily newscast items, decides the order in which stories will be told, writes teases and other content, times news programs, edits video, and posts video to the website.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Responsible for finding and evaluating content; organizing it into a cohesive sequence within a newscast
- Build rundown with strong editorial and creative judgement
- Manage workflow efficiently and effectively
- Write and copy edit scripts
- Work with Executive Producer, Producers and Anchors on story selection and overall focus of the product
- Contribute to the editorial process, including daily coverage and enterprise reporting choices
- Coach and train other Producers and Writers
- Produce newscasts as assigned
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Communications, TV/Film or the equivalent work experience
- At least three years’ experience producing newscasts
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with anchors, reporters, photographers, graphic artists, production and engineering staff, managers, and others
- Ability to adapt to change, meet deadlines, prioritize assignments, and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Detail oriented and tactical, yet able to see the big-picture and execute broader, strategic initiatives
- Well-organized, with excellent planning skills, while being flexible enough to quickly shift when necessary
- Strong news judgment, journalistic integrity and understanding of viewer needs and expectations
- Excel under tight deadlines, with emphasis on breaking news, developing stories and extreme weather coverage
- Utilize state-of-the-art television technology in newsroom, control room and set/studio
- Provide regular feedback on newscast with staff, both as a team and individually; coach less experience members of the team and help them develop their skill set
- Proficiency with ENPS
Top Skills
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.
