Digital-Social Media Producer, NBC Chicago
Digital-Social Media Producer, NBC Chicago
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Job Description
is looking for an exceptional driven digital news writer and multiplatform content creator with experience covering news for a newspaper or website. Our candidate must be an extremely effective multitasker with topnotch local news judgment a proven trackrecord of both breaking news and indepth writing and incredible understanding of SEO and audience development with their finger on the pulse of what people are talking about. This person works equally well solo as in a collaborative teamfocused environment. They must be adaptable and willing to quickly learn everchanging audiences across our website app and social channels always looking for opportunities for growth. They must have a yesand approach to brainstorming collaborating and learning.
Job Duties:
- Cover Chicagoarea and Midwest news across platforms for NBC Chicago web app social media push alerts video and streaming
- Report stories from the digital desk especially in breaking news. Candidate must feel comfortable gathering news by making phone calls verifying content on social media and working with reporters in the field.
- Understand SEO have experience using Google Trends and know how to apply audience learnings to content
- Send push alerts post to social media clip video and work sources in breaking news
- Drive audience to ensure our platforms are No. 1
- Understand NBC 5 and Telemundo Chicagos audience needs by platform (website/app TV FAST channel social media YouTube etc.) and how to break news on each.
- Effectively read audience trends recognize the trends that most impact our audience and use them to create outstanding content.
- Produce content across multiple platforms by collaborating with our assignment desk reporters news staff and independent sources
- Quickly learn the audience by platform and write and distribute content based on it
- Identify buzzworthy stories of the day and engage our local audience across multiple platforms
- Create multimedia content to enhance daily news coverage (i.e. video live streams slideshows)
- Execute all publishing workflows for video images and text
- Adhere to AP Style editorial style guides standards and practices
- Coordinate with news producers to crosspromote onair and online content
- Be an advocate for audience in the newsroom and beyond
Qualifications :
- Must be able to write AP Style news
- Must have experience in a newsroom for a minimum of 1.5 years
- Must be a skilled writer with outstanding communication skills
- Must be able to work weekends and evenings and have flexibility to cover shifts as need
- Must have working knowledge of Google Trends and SEO
- Must have experience covering news on social media platforms (including but not limited to Facebook Instagram TikTok YouTube and more)
- Must have experience working in a fastpaced content production environment with tight deadlines yesand collaboration and extreme multitasking
Eligibility Requirements:
- Must be willing to work in Chicago IL
- Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Must submit a resume/CV through to be considered a candidate for this position
- Hybrid: This position has been designated as hybrid generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week.
Desired Characteristics:
- Writing in both Spanish and English
- Working knowledge of content management and video editing tools
- Writing experience for a newspaper or news website for a minimum of a year
- Indepth knowledge of Chicagoarea news and politics
- Wire service newspaper rewrite or digital news background
- Experience with social media editing video and creating slideshows
- Desire to work in a creative demanding competitive environment
- Excellent editing writing and management skills as well as experience in telling stories through videos photos and multimedia packages
Additional information: This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits including medical dental and vision insurance 401(k) paid leave tuition reimbursement and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website.
Salary Range: $65000 $80000
Additional Information :
As part of our selection process external candidates may be required to attend an inperson interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversals policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race color religion creed gender gender identity or expression age national origin or ancestry citizenship disability sexual orientation marital status pregnancy veteran status membership in the uniformed services genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
