Senior News Producer, WFTS

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WFTS, the ABC affiliate in Tampa, Florida, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company, is searching for its next Senior News Producer. You'll create, lead, and organize content for multiple platforms using strong editorial, journalistic, organizational, and communication skills. You'll play a key role in providing training to producers and associate producers to develop their skills.

The Senior Producer will research, develop, and plan stories that support the company and station’s content strategy. This may include live or prerecorded newscasts/local programs and editing or repurposing existing content.

Enjoy Tampa’s warm, sunny climate year-round with easy access to Gulf Coast beaches. The city combines a relaxed coastal lifestyle with a growing cultural scene, including restaurants, sports, and festivals. Apply today to join this award-winning news team!

• Develop and organize newscasts or local programs.
• Write story development and showcasing.
• Collaborate with reporters, anchors, news managers, producers, and assignment editors to determine content needs and storytelling direction for multiple platforms.
• Play a key role in providing training and coaching consistent with the content strategy to producers and associate producers, developing their overall skill set.
• Enhance content with graphics, video, research, and station branding.
• Execute time-sensitive decisions.
• Oversee live broadcast and up-to-the-minute editorial decisions.
• Perform desktop editing.
• Post content to station's websites.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• BS/BA in related discipline preferred or equivalent years of experience
• Generally, 5+ years of experience in related field preferred

• Ability and desire to train others
• Avid local news consumer: knows daily news, events, trends and happenings on a local level
• Strong vision and ability to advance stories
• Excellent interpersonal communicator
• Extraordinarily passionate about writing; courageous and creative storyteller with attention to even tiny details - choosing the perfect words, grammar, spelling
• Highly organized
• Highly adaptable
• Strong self-motivation
• Working knowledge of journalistic ethics and libel laws, and strong editorial judgement
• Able to use web analytics
• Proficient with newsroom computer systems, MS Office a plus
• Flexible work hours may be required, including holidays, weekends and evenings

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