Assignment Editor / Digital Content Producer
At a glance
Mid-level Content Creation role at Nexstar. KS, Wichita · full-time.
Pay not stated Content Creation salary
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What you'll do
- Make coverage calls with the news team and direct crews for assigned stories
- Research developing stories through calls, texts, email, and social-media verification
- Arrange interviews and segments for newscasts, podcasts, live broadcasts, and recorded pieces
- Write, edit, and publish digital stories across the website, social channels, and streaming apps
- Coordinate live-event, breaking-news, and podcast streams while keeping newsroom operations organized
What you bring
- A journalism or related bachelor's degree, or equivalent education and work experience
- Strong news judgment, communication, organization, prioritization, and deadline-management skills
- Experience with digital platforms, social media, streaming, newsroom systems, editing, and camera equipment
- Fluency in English and the ability to lead decisions during breaking coverage
Who this fits
You'll suit a mid-level newsroom role that combines assignment leadership, digital publishing, field coordination, and investigative newsgathering. The work calls for someone comfortable making fast decisions, handling multiple assignments, and communicating with newsroom staff, crews, viewers, and guests. Evening and other assigned shifts are part of the role, with Spanish bilingual ability listed as a plus.
From the employer
KSNW is looking for a dynamic journalist who thrives on breaking news, enterprise stories, and implements urgent coverage on broadcast, digital and streaming platforms to join our team as a full-time assignment editor and digital content producer. The ideal candidate understands how to cover spot news with urgency and attention to detail, and has an understanding of cross-platform, multi-media coverage, including broadcast, digital, social media and streaming apps, like KSN+. Must have excellent news judgment and instincts, with the ability to find stories that will help make our content unique and distinctive. You should be a highly motivated, organized, multi-tasker. You should be a good communicator with people in the newsroom and crews in the field. You should be a natural leader who can instantly take charge during breaking news. A curious mind, investigational skills and the ability to dig deeper into a story is essential.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with news team to make coverage decisions
- Assign, communicate, and coordinate logistics for story coverage including dispatching crews
- Assist with newsgathering and research for stories through calls, text, email
- Lead the charge on mining social media, confirming information to disseminate to the newsroom
- Be the voice to viewer calls and the face to KSN guests/interviewees
- Coordinate interviews and segments for broadcast and digital platforms, including podcasts, live newscasts and taped segments
- Write/publish/edit digital stories for multiple platforms, including social media, website and streaming apps
- Coordinate streaming coverage and scheduling of live events, breaking news and podcasts with digital team
- Keep the newsroom organized and functioning seamlessly
- Coordinate communication and content sharing between Nexstar Stations
- Lead special event planning and other advance credentialing
Requirements & Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience
- Fluency in English, bilingual Spanish a plus
- Must have superior organizational skills
- Must be able to meet deadlines, prioritize assignments, and handle multiple tasks
- Must be able to make decisions and take a leadership role
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
- Experience in news operations preferred
- Strong understanding of digital platforms, including social media and streaming.
- Proficiency with newsroom, digital and streaming computer systems, editing, camera equipment, computers, telephones, and other office equipment; willingness to learn new systems.
- Ability to meet deadlines, prioritize assignments and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Flexibility to work evening and other shifts as assigned
SCAM ALERT:
Please be aware candidates may be at risk of being targeted by scammers seeking personal data or money. Recruiters with Nexstar Media Group and its local stations will only contact you through official job boards, LinkedIn, or email with Nexstar.tv domain or official station email addresses (example:@wreg.com). Be cautious of any outreach claiming to be from Nexstar or its recruiters via any other messaging platforms or personal email addresses. We will not contact you using a @gmail email address. If you are unsure about the authenticity of a job inquiry or offer, email us at corporaterecruiters@nexstar.tv.
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