Senior Producer, CBC News Network, Early Dayside (English Services) (On-Site)

CBC/Radio-Canada•Toronto, ON

1d•Onsite

About The Position

CBC News is looking for a creative editorial leader with sharp news judgment, outstanding programming skills, and an audience-first mindset to lead the Early Dayside team at CBC News Network. In this pivotal role, you will shape compelling, platform-optimized content, with a strong emphasis on mobile and streaming audiences. As Senior Producer, you will drive daily production operations with a hyper-focus on live and breaking news. You will conceive, plan, and shape dynamic news programming that brings compelling visual storytelling, captivating on-screen presentation, and immersive live experiences to our audience. You lean into data, and use it to drive audience-focused strategies for your team. You are expected to steer daily editorial meetings, stimulate creative discussions, and identify the most impactful stories and treatments for the day. You must be able to react decisively to major news developments, track stories in real-time, reshape shows on the fly, create live content optimized for on-demand audiences, and seamlessly pivot to extended, wall-to-wall coverage when the news demands it. Extensive control room skills and hands-on experience working within an automated broadcast environment are essential to succeed in this fast-paced setting. Beyond production, the Senior Producer must be a change leader, able to galvanize and lead teams through transitions in priorities, roles and responsibilities. You must see change as an opportunity to evolve. Guiding a team of up to 15 staff members, you will provide meaningful, constructive feedback, guide complex editorial judgments, and actively teach advanced writing and producing skills. You are responsible for cultivating a highly creative, respectful, and inclusive newsroom culture. Reporting to the Executive Producer of Live & Daily News, Dayside, you are accountable for driving CBC’s strategic goals, including working across platforms to drive stories to meet audience needs no matter where they consume our content. You ensure all programming is of the highest quality and strictly adheres to CBC’s Journalistic Standards and Practices. By collaborating seamlessly across all CBC platforms, you ensure we are always where the news is live, helping our audience make sense of the world from any device.

Requirements

Minimum of seven years in broadcast journalism, with a university degree or college diploma in journalism, video production, or a related field.
Proven experience directing live and breaking news programming, including production planning and resource coordination. Demonstrated ability as a programmer with a keen ear for pacing, tone, and visual presentation.
Mandatory experience taking programs to air in an automated control room, alongside highly developed production skills for a variety of formats.
Exceptional problem-solving skills to navigate fast-moving, high-pressure news situations. You're adept at verifying and fact-checking content.
Deep interest and understanding across topics such as politics, business, science, sports, entertainment, and health.
Superior coaching abilities to support developing journalists, veteran staff, and on-air hosts. Exceptional communication, organizational, and feedback skills.
A deep commitment to public broadcasting, understanding of modern industry trends, ability to identify legal and ethical issues in journalism, and application of CBC’s Journalistic Standards and Practices.
Must be able to work on-site in the CBC Toronto Broadcast Centre.
Expected to work overtime, including early mornings, evenings and weekends if news is breaking.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with technology including iNews toolbar, DTV, Avid Media Central, Ross Overdrive, and Google tools for content creation, distribution, and planning.

Responsibilities

Determine story priorities, develop innovative content strategies, and expertly guide teams through live, breaking, and ongoing news coverage. Guide the team on story length, deadlines, updates, and visual treatments.
Develop & practise a culture of embracing breaking news and leaning into developing stories with a disciplined focus on audience needs and CBC News strategy. Collaborate with radio, streaming and digital to ensure a full live experience across all platforms.
Exercise editorial responsibility over daily production and live broadcasting. Co-ordinate resources and determine the look, style, and pace of the lineup to maintain consistency with network mandates. Thrive under intense deadline pressures.
Oversee the daily writing, researching, gathering, editing, and distribution of content to ensure alignment with the CBC News editorial strategy and opportunities for cross-platform collaboration.
Drives continuous improvement, agile and adaptable in transforming newsroom structures and roles and lead transitions. You understand what motivates people. You welcome feedback and carefully consider that input as you align your team around shared goals. You celebrate success.
Facilitate open, inclusive story meetings. Encourage story pitches and development. Collaborate across CBC News platforms to co-ordinate content, such as guest chases, raw footage, clipped material.
Actively support staff development, provide ongoing constructive feedback and coaching. Connect regularly with senior leadership about staffing and scheduling requirements and team culture.
Translate insights and data to guide content decisions to expand our reach to new and younger news consumers, and to deepen our engagement with all Canadians.
Strictly uphold CBC’s Journalistic Standards and Practices at all times.
Step in to perform all or part of the functions of an equivalent or lower classification as needed.