Digital Content Producer

This is a Full Time Job

KCRA 3, the NBC affiliate in Sacramento and a Hearst Television station, is looking for a well-rounded full-time Digital Content Producer who will create content for its website, mobile products and social media platforms. You must be an excellent storyteller who can edit and create content facing intense competition under constant deadline pressure. Breaking news and dynamic weather are important in Northern California, and our digital producer must know how to maximize our content while accomplishing their daily responsibilities. You will report to the Digital Content Manager.

Responsibilities

• Write/edit and publish breaking news and weather, daily news, sports and feature stories for our station website, and other social media platforms

• Write compelling headlines; especially for mobile and social media and carefully create mobile push notifications for breaking news/severe weather

• Work with Reporters and Assignment Editors to ensure content is posted accurately and fast

• Work with Producers, Assignment Editors and Managers to ensure promotion of content across all platforms

• Develop multimedia special projects and data visualizations

• Manage LIVE streams of newscasts and breaking news

• Contribute ideas to help grow our station's digital platforms

Requirements
• At least two years of experience in a professional television newsroom or web-publishing environment

• Compelling news and editorial judgment

• Excellent AP writing skills

• Basic knowledge of video editing

• Experience with social media best practices

• Flexibility to work different shifts (including nights and weekends), holidays on short notice to cover a 24-hour news cycle

• Work well in an environment with frequent interruptions

• Proficiency in Photoshop

• Related military experience will be considered

Salary

The estimated base salary range for this role is between $52,000 and $62,000. The actual base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as transferable skills, work experience, business needs, market demands and conditions, including geographic location where the work will be performed, and other factors permitted by law. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Diversity Statement

At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That's why, behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization as diverse and varied as the audience we reach, ensuring that the content we create is more compassionate, and more representative of the Northern California communities we serve.

Benefits

Hearst's benefit programs are modern, flexible and designed to focus on you. As a Hearst employee, you and your spouse or partner or dependents would have access to the following benefits.
• Medical | Dental | Vision

• 401(k) matching

• Emotional Wellness Support

• Paid Time Off

• Paid Parental Leave

• LGBTQ Health Services

• Additional benefits to meet your and your family's needs