WDAF-TV FOX4 in Kansas City is seeking a Special Projects Producer to produce and coordinate enterprise content, including streaming programming on WDAF+, broadcast specials and live events. The Special Projects Producer is a key collaborator across the newsroom, coordinating projects across news, streaming, digital, and production teams. This position balances daily oversight of streaming content with coordination of larger broadcast specials and station initiatives, while also serving the primary producer on select initiatives.
Responsibilities:
Supervise content planning and execution for WDAF+, including original programming and streaming initiatives.
Coordinate broadcast specials and station initiatives, including franchise and community-focused programming (Heritage Month specials, franchise initiatives, and live events.)
Oversee the shooting and editing calendar for specials to ensure efficient production and use of resources.
Work with reporters, photographers, and editors to produce high-quality special reports.
Maintain strong coordination across newsroom teams, including managers, operations and production.
Skills and Requirements:
Experience producing newscasts, special projects, or multi-platform content.
Demonstrated ability to guide projects and collaborate across teams without direct supervisory responsibility, requiring influence and coordination across teams.
Excellent writing, spelling, grammar and copy-editing skills.
Project coordination experience and strong organizational skills required.
Understanding of streaming and digital content workflows preferred.
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and deadlines.
Must be able to flex schedule as projects demand.
College degree in broadcast journalism, broadcast news or related fields.
Ability to make editorial decisions under deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Skills Required
- Experience producing newscasts, special projects, or multi-platform content
- Excellent writing, spelling, grammar and copy-editing skills
- College degree in broadcast journalism, broadcast news or related fields
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.
