- Job Requirements: Must be local to location (or willing to work as a local).
Responsibilities of our Digital Executive Producer will include:
- Oversee daily digital publishing to ensure we are serving our local communities by sharing relevant information to alert, protect, and empower our audiences
- Supervise digital producers and work with reporters, as well as, review scripts and provide feedback to encourage powerful storytelling according to the needs of each platform
- Manage newsroom and handle breaking news situations to empower and grow our audiences
- Collaborate with the News Director, executive producers, content creators, and other station managers to create special segments, some of which are revenue generators for sales
- Planning and overseeing continuity and strategy for website and social platforms
What skills do you need to be successful in this role?
- Proven track record of creating compelling and engaging stories across multiple platforms to accepted journalistic standards of fairness and accuracy
- Ability to perform well under pressure, experience managing breaking news, and meeting strict deadlines
- Ability to identify problems and provide solutions
- A strong commitment to journalistic standards and ethics
- Extraordinary people skills with an emphasis on coaching and motivating
- Strong understanding of how to drive digital traffic
- Minimum of 2 years experience producing content in a television news environment or equivalent
- A college degree in Journalism or a related field is preferred
- Strong writing skills and a proven track record for getting results on initiatives
- Understanding how to interpret the newsroom brand in the digital sphere without resorting to clickbait
- Understanding how to gather digital analytics and use them to set goals
*** Group, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug-Free Workplace!
About Us
Make your mark in *** with *** Group, a diversified *** company dedicated to connecting people with content everywhere! We have consistently led the broadcast industry since our inception, and now Sinclair owns the largest regional sports network business and one of the largest television broadcast portfolios in the country. In addition, we have affiliations with all of the major broadcast networks, own Tennis Channel, and several multicast networks including TBD and Comet. Our content is distributed over-the-air, on multi-video providers, and through our industry-leading digital *** platforms. We're at the forefront of NextGen technology, enabling innovative new ways to engage with broadcast content like never before. We also recently launched a free TV streaming ser *** called STIRR. Our success is the direct result of our extraordinary employees and management team who believe in our vision and are dedicated to ensuring a great future for our employees. We are advancing the world of *** and want YOU to join our winning team!
About the Team
The lifeblood of our organization is our people. We have a compelling story, and a goal-oriented culture, and we take really good care of people. How good? Here is a glimpse: great benefits, open door policy, upward mobility, and a strong desire to see you succeed. Ready to be part of a winning team? Let's talk.
The base hourly compensation range for this role is $19.00 to $21.50 per hour. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidates' relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location. Full time positions are eligible for benefits that include participation in a retirement plan, life and disability insurance, health, dental and vision plans, flexible spending accounts, sick leave, vacation time, personal time, parental leave and employee stock purchase plan.
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