Digital Content Executive Producer

Job Description

WZTV Nashville is seeking a Digital Content Executive Producer. This position is responsible for featuring and maintaining the content on the Station's digital platforms, providing updated and fresh content throughout the day. Works with station management to provide a digital presence on our website(s), social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube on a day-to-day basis and on email blasts, employing journalist best practices. Uses analytics to effectively manage content on all platforms. This EP will also not only manage the digital team, but lead the Content Center effort in the digital portals and teach the editorial employees best practices for effective digital execution.

Responsibilities :

• Continually creates compelling content with a focus on video and social content across platforms. This involves establishing a budgeted itinerary of video and graphic content on a day-to-day, week-to-week, month-to-month basis and prioritizing and evaluating the relative importance of sporting events and how they should be programmed digitally
• Maintain relationships with Sales, Content Center, and Promotion departments
• Coordinate contests with Sales, Content Center and / or Promotion departments
• Develop a new look for each contest to uniquely reflect what is involved
• Edit, save, and transfer video for reporter packages, new stories, guest segments, when needed
• Teaching Content Center staff publishing skills and best practices for effective site management on all platforms
• Reviews and edits reporter web scripts before posting
• Maintains and updates the news portion of the station's site with accurate and timely content
• Evaluates available analytics to guide management of the digital platforms for maximum performance
• Updates any breaking news coverage to be posted on station digital platforms
• Utilize social media platforms as practical to provide newsworthy information
• Also utilize social media platforms to provide breaking news coverage as appropriate and monitor and interact with feedback on the station's social media platforms
• Notify Station Management of any questionable feedback
• Follow journalistic best practices in posting any content to social media platforms
• Writes story details as needed
• Maintain a working knowledge of current local, regional, and national news
• Provide news stories utilizing the newsroom systems or direct communications and maintain regular contact with news sources
• Works with new technologies to ensure content is available as quickly as possible
• Works with News Content Director to hire digital producers

Requirements and Qualifications :

EEO AND INCLUSIVITY :

Sinclair is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and a drug free workplace. Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by virtue of an applicant's or employee's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

About Us

Sinclair, Inc. (Nasdaq : SBGI) is a diversified media company and a leading provider of local news and sports. The Company owns, operates and / or provides services to 185 television stations in 86 markets affiliated with all the major broadcast networks; and owns Tennis Channel and multicast networks Comet, CHARGE!, TBD., and The Nest. Sinclair's content is delivered via multiple platforms, including over-the-air, multi-channel video program distributors, and the nation's largest streaming aggregator of local news content, NewsON. The Company regularly uses its website as a key source of Company information which can be accessed at www.sbgi.net.

About the Team

The life-blood of our organization is our people. We have a compelling story, a goal-oriented culture, and we take really good care of people. How good? Here is a glimpse : great benefits, open door policy, upward mobility and a strong desire to see you succeed. Ready to be part of a winning team? Let's talk.