Senior Broadcast Producer

NewsNation seeks a Senior Broadcast Producer to join the growing team at NewsNation. The senior broadcast producer will play a key leadership role helping to devise the editorial and booking strategy and coordinate show production for a daily news program. Candidates should be passionate about news and storytelling and creating compelling programming. Candidate should also have extensive experience covering politics and policy. The position is based at the network’s studios in Washington, DC.

Responsibilities:

• Assists anchor and executive producer in setting show’s editorial direction
• Helps build rundowns for regular programming as well as breaking news and special programming
• Coordinates the team: line producers, associate producers, writers, editors and other staff
• Copy edits scripts and content
• Serves as a senior leader in the control room
• Helps implement training and best practices for team
• Provides ongoing mentoring and support to staff
• Manage editorial relationships and collaboration with other teams
• Acts as Executive Producer in his/her absence
• Performs special projects and other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of editorial experience in a fast-paced environment for a national news program (broadcast, cable or digital)
• Excellent writing and copy-editing skills
• Segment producing experience
• Strong organizational, and people skills are vital
• The successful candidate will be a self-starter with excellent communication skills who brings lots of ideas to the table
• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience