Executive Producer

Nightside Executive Producer

Location: Orlando

Company: Hearst-owned WESH 2 / CW18

Job Description:
We are looking for a Nightside Executive Producer who can oversee fast-paced newscasts and execute our Local, Live, Late Breaking brand every single day. The right candidate will be a leader who can develop multi-platform content that succeeds on air, on mobile, and on social media.

Responsibilities include:

- Ability to manage, coach, and motivate a team who is committed to excellence.
- Responsible for the overall content of the 7pm, 10pm and 11pm newscasts.
- Manage all aspects of breaking news and social engagement.
- Effective communication and decision making under daily deadline pressure.
- Research, pitch, and gather enterprise news stories.
- Work on recruiting producers and work closely with news managers to implement winning strategies for other newscasts.
- Handle Breaking News when it happens and oversee a compelling product that delivers interesting and relevant content to our viewers.
- Coach and lead with the communications skills to make those you supervise better.

Additional Responsibilities:

- Oversight of the preparation of a rundown and scripts for the newscasts.
- Oversight of the use of all our graphics resources to enhance our presentation.
- Coaching producers, reporters, and photojournalists.
- Respond to breaking news.
- Oversight of digital response to breaking news and social media engagement.
- Writing compelling news stories in active voice.
- Meeting deadlines.
- News gathering.
- Producing and boothing newscasts when needed.
- Posting stories and video on website and on mobile.
- Leading editorial meetings and pitching enterprise stories in editorial meetings.
- Perform administrative duties including scheduling, performance reviews, training and providing critical feedback.
- Communicating effectively with news staff, promotions, and production/engineering.

Requirements:

- Minimum of five years producing experience.
- Prior management experience is preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in writing and ability to think visually.
- Possess outstanding communication skills.
- Ability to multi-task and coordinate several crews and responsibilities simultaneously.
- Ability to summarize information into easy-to-understand components.
- Creative presentation style, and ability to showcase all resources and elements.
- Unwavering journalistic integrity and ethical standards.

Diversity Statement:
At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. 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 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.