Digital Audience and News Producer

Maine Public•Portland, OR

5d•$29•Onsite

About The Position

Maine Public is seeking a full-time Digital Audience and News Producer to join our newsroom in downtown Portland, Maine! With an emphasis on photos, video, audio, polls, and infographics, the person in this role helps deliver compelling and high-impact news across multiple platforms, including for mainepublic.org, social media, and newsletters. Involving editorial and technical work, the Digital Audience and News Producer writes original news content, creates and produces interactive content, and supports colleagues by editing and preparing their work for digital platforms. While remaining focused on the audience experience, this position reviews platform usage and analytics regularly and uses those metrics to improve audience engagement and size. With NPR, PBS, and other partners we strive to be the standard bearer for high-integrity journalism and programming. Candidates must be comfortable working in a deadline-driven and fast-paced environment. The successful candidate must work well both in a team environment and independently, and demonstrate a love of public broadcasting. This position primarily works in a newsroom Monday through Friday; the ability to react to, produce and post breaking news across the 24-hour news cycle is a core requirement.

Requirements

Work experience as a journalist required with at least 2 years' professional experience as a multimedia journalist, reporter, editor or content creator.
Hands-on experience creating web content and strategies required along with organization, attention to detail, and accuracy.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in journalism or related field preferred, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Visual content creation and editing in Canva, Adobe Photoshop or other design platforms strongly preferred.
Audience analysis in Google Analytics, Chartbeat or other audience analytics tools preferred.
Writing and editing in CSS, HTML, JavaScript or other front-end web languages preferred.
Video and audio editing in Audition and Premiere, Audacity, Pro Tools, Burli or other multimedia platforms preferred.

Responsibilities

Writes original news content
Creates and produces interactive content
Supports colleagues by editing and preparing their work for digital platforms
Reviews platform usage and analytics regularly and uses those metrics to improve audience engagement and size
React to, produce and post breaking news across the 24-hour news cycle