Digital Content Producer (Part-Time) - WHIO TV

Position Overview

WHIO Dayton TV, #1 CBS affiliate in the country, is looking for a Part-Time Digital Content Producer who will work with a 24-7 team to monitor, gather, and create news content for use on all media platforms—TV, digital website, mobile applications, and social media. The right candidate will have a passion for news, discovering the facts and urgent reporting of those facts to the users and viewers of local news.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Gather content and see it through from online and on-air, to social distribution
• Responsible for logistics working directly with reporters, photographers, producers, managers, and the fellow content producers to cover the news of the day, as well as generate enterprise stories
• Responsible for monitoring a variety of “in” points for news—police, fire scanners, social media, email, internal wires, phone calls
• Plan and anticipate coverage
• Monitor police/fire scanners for multiple counties
• Field phone calls, monitor emails and scan multiple branded social media accounts for news tips from the public
• Dispatch crews to cover content for our digital, radio and television platforms
• Operate as an integral member of the content center team, and one of their primary responsibilities is to drive results to help us meet analytics-based goals and convert digital users into television viewers
• Distribute content on all platforms (broadcast TV, radio, digital apps, social media)
• Schedule may include nights, weekends and holidays, and overnights

Minimum Qualifications

• Study in a relevant field required (Journalism, Communications, Social Media, Broadcast Technology, English)
• Must have a valid driver's license and clean driving record
• Keen sense of news judgement for each media platform
• Multi-platform mindset—Gather news through all platforms
• Newsgatherer mindset
• Ability to be a Team Player
• Understanding of Newsroom Logistics and ability to move crews
• Provide urgent writing of content for all platforms
• Sense of Urgency—ability to work under pressure
• Willingness to evolve, learn new skills, innovative technology, embrace change
• Ability to prioritize a large volume of writing assignments based on urgency, platform needs and deadlines
• Knowledge of writing for all platforms—broadcast, digital, social, push alerts, radio
• Identify newsworthy content from scanners
• Ability to recognize trending stories online, provide timely updates for multiple platforms
• Must be social media savvy and possess thorough grasp of the use of social media for audience engagement
• Detail-oriented, highly organized planner
• Must be able to work any shift, including overnights, weekends—the newsroom is 24/7
• Must be accessible to contact during big breaking news situations
• Strong understanding of grammar, spelling, ability to make cold calls, ask questions
• Technical knowledge of news gathering
• Strong editorial judgement, possess strong organizational skills and be digitally savvy

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in Journalism preferred
• Study in a relevant field required (Journalism, Communications, Social Media, Broadcast Technology, English)