About this role
About the Role WCCO is looking for a Producer to join the team and help unleash the power of content. The role focuses on leading a newsroom team to deliver timely, accurate, and engaging news, weather, and sports coverage across TV and digital platforms. What You'll Do
- Manage a team of anchors, reporters, photographers, editors and other journalists
- Craft phenomenal TV and help collaborate on content for digital platforms every day
- Understand the importance of performing strong breaking news and weather coverage
- Ideate and craft moments to showcase news/weather and sports anchors
- Work closely with news managers to evaluate helpful content for the changing audience
- Apply video, live pictures, graphics, props, social media, anchor involvement and the other tools of television to deliver meaningful, memorable and distinctive news
- Write memorable copy on tight deadlines
- Ensure newscast’s timeliness, accuracy, fairness, quality and compliance with all FCC requirements and CBS standards What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism or Communications
- 2+ years' experience as a producer in commercial television news
- Additional qualifications: Naturally curious and competitive leader; phenomenal interpersonal skills, conversational writing, as well as efficiency working in teams and on tight deadlines Nice to Have
- Additional qualifications: Naturally curious and competitive leader; phenomenal interpersonal skills, conversational writing, as well as efficiency working in teams and on tight deadlines