Producer, KTNV

KTNV, The E.W. Scripps ABC affiliate in Las Vegas, Nevada is seeking a newscast Producer who will create and organize content for multiple platforms utilizing editorial, journalistic, organizational, and communication skills. The role involves developing and organizing newscasts, writing stories, collaborating with various teams, enhancing content with graphics and video, making time-sensitive decisions, overseeing live broadcasts, performing desktop editing, and posting content to the station's websites.

Must Have

• Develop and organize newscasts or local programs
• Write story development and showcasing
• Collaborate with reporters, anchors, news managers and assignment editors
• Enhance content with graphics, video, research, and station branding
• Execute time sensitive decisions
• Oversee live broadcast and up to the minute editorial decisions
• Perform desktop editing
• Post content to station's Web sites
• Avid local news consumer
• Strong vision and ability to advance stories
• Excellent interpersonal communicator
• Passionate about writing; courageous and creative storyteller
• Attention to even tiny details - choosing the perfect words, grammar, spelling
• Highly organized
• Highly adaptable - fast paced, deadline driven environment
• Strong self-motivation
• Working knowledge of journalistic ethics and libel laws and strong editorial judgement
• Able to use web analytics
• Proficient with newsroom computer systems

Good to Have

• BS/BA in related discipline
• 2+ years of experience in related field
• MS Office proficiency

KTNV, The E.W. Scripps ABC affiliate in Las Vegas, Nevada is seeking a newscast Producer who will create, and organize content for multiple platforms utilizing editorial, journalistic, organizational and communication skills.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Develop and organize newscasts or local programs.
• Write story development and showcasing.
• Collaborate with reporters, anchors, news managers and assignment editors to determine content needs.
• Enhance content with graphics, video, research, and station branding.
• Execute time sensitive decisions.
• Oversee live broadcast and up to the minute editorial decisions.
• Perform desktop editing.
• Post content to station's Web sites.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

• BS/BA in related discipline preferred or equivalent years of experience
• Generally, 2+ years of experience in related field preferred

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Avid local news consumer: knows daily news, events, trends and happenings on a local level
• Strong vision and ability to advance stories
• Excellent interpersonal communicator
• Extraordinarily passionate about writing; courageous and creative storyteller with attention to even tiny details - choosing the perfect words, grammar, spelling
• Highly organized
• Highly adaptable - fast paced, deadline driven environment
• Strong self-motivation
• Working knowledge of journalistic ethics and libel laws and strong editorial judgement
• Able to use web analytics
• Proficient with newsroom computer systems, MS Office a plus
• Flexible work hours may be required, including holidays, weekends and evenings