At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Location
- KING KONG-TV Seattle
About the role
- KING, the TEGNA-owned NBC affiliate in Seattle, WA, is seeking an innovative Dayside Senior Producer to shape and energize daily newscasts with strong editorial choices, urgency, and accuracy.
- The Senior Producer is a key editorial voice working alongside the Executive Producer to ensure linear and streaming-only products outperform the competition and serve the community.
- This role involves leading by example, prioritizing flexibility and breaking news across all platforms, and building creative shows that engage, educate, and inform.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with producers to make our shows stand out from the competition.
- Inspire and motivate a team while leading by example.
- Guide editorial decision-making as a leader in the newsroom.
- Head up assigned special projects such as elections and big event coverage plans.
- Booth continuous coverage on our live streams for breaking news and community events.
- Demonstrate professionalism and composure under constant deadlines and pressure.
- Consistently try new strategies and techniques after thoughtful discussion with supervisors.
- Use data analytics to shape content decisions.
- Challenge traditional ways of doing things.
- Train producers and other newsroom work groups on best practices on subjects such as executing streams, writing with urgency, and organizing big events.
Requirements
- 5 years of news content experience.
- Top-notch communication skills are an absolute must.
- Solid journalistic judgement and a news philosophy that emphasizes breaking news, accurate, fair, and unique local content, along with community engagement.
- Understanding of the tenets of professional journalism.
- Organizational skills and the ability to work under time-pressure deadlines.
- Ability to calmly handle live, breaking news situations and changing events.
Preferred qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree preferred or related or equivalent years of experience.
- ENPS and Edius system experience preferred.
Benefits
- Two medical plan options through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas for full and part-time employees
- Access to dental and eye care coverage
- Fertility, surrogacy, and adoption assistance
- Disability and life insurance
- 401(k) program with 1% - 80% pre-tax contribution and 100% company match on the first 4% of pay, 100% vested from day one
- Nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc
- 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health
- Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit
- Nine paid holidays per year
Skills
- ENPS
- Edius
