DIGITAL STREAMING NEWS PRODUCER - KNOE

About the position

KNOE-TV 8 is searching for the next Digital Content Producer to join our award-winning, fun-loving team. The ideal candidate is a driven and dedicated journalist with strong writing skills who loves to write! The candidate will help compose engaging social media posts and help with our streaming platforms.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate excellent writing, copy-editing, and storytelling skills
• Write accurate and compelling web articles
• Use Associated Press style on a daily basis
• Break news with accurate and timely push notifications through the KNOE apps
• Craft thoughtful and eye-catching text, photo, and video posts for Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms
• Research story ideas from viewer calls, emails, or direct messages
• Brainstorm and carry out creative ideas to increase web traffic and audience engagement
• Design compelling and engaging graphics and visual elements to help our journalists communicate their stories
• Operate KNOE's Streaming Live Desk to stream events for the audience
• Collaborate and communicate with reporters, other digital team members, producers, anchors, reporters, and managers to gather content for online and on-air

Requirements

• Creative, extremely detail-oriented, and have very strong problem-solving, multi-tasking, and communication skills
• Positive and professional attitude in a fast-paced and dynamic environment under deadline pressure
• Able to work well with a team
• Flexible to work mornings, nights, and weekends
• Working knowledge of web and social media platforms
• A desire to grow in a newsroom
• A bachelor's degree in communications or journalism
• At least one internship in a newsroom is a plus
• Strong grasp of visual design, grammar, and spelling