Content Producer

This is a Full Time Job

DESCRIPTION:

FOX Weather is looking for a Producer to join our Content Core team in New York City. You love to hunt for the best new original or exclusive story to tell and are committed to advancing stories in the weather news beat 24/7. You have a team-first mentality and dedicated passion for news to be successful in this position at FOX Weather.

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Effort exclusive and original news to be used in various deliverables on FOX Weather stream, foxweather.com, and across all distribution platforms
• Hunt and clear UGC for FOX Weather to use across all platforms
• Chase and confirm news on and off the record for FOX Weather in peacetime and active weather
• Pitch ideas for stories, emphasizing original reporting and advancing news as well as compelling, weather-adjacent content
• Write stories for foxweather.com, post to FOX Weather social platforms and cut video as needed
• Consistently meet fair deadlines and established productivity goals
• Monitor analytics to inform strategic content decisions
• Support all functions of FOX Weather's Content Core, assisting with logistics for field team, ingestion requests and coordination internally and externally as assigned

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

• Bachelor's degree in journalism or related field of study preferred
• At least 4 years of experience in journalism, either digital outlets, traditional linear newsrooms or on an assignment desk
• Excellent news judgement, strong communication skills and a collaborative attitude
• Ability to utilize various content management, newsgathering, social media and collaboration tools such as Airtable, Jira, Wordpress, WSI graphics among others
• Extensive knowledge of news cycle
• Social media savviness
• Passion for weather news
• Ability to work under deadline and pressure of a fast-paced newsroom
• Willingness to work weekends, nights or early mornings