Job Description

Location: PA-Pittsburgh

Job Title: Content Center Producer - WPXI TV

Position Overview

WPXI TV Pittsburgh is looking for a Content Center Producer who will work with a 24-7 team to monitor, gather, and create news content for use on all media platforms—TV, digital website, mobile applications, and social media. The right candidate will have a passion for news, discovering the facts and urgent reporting of those facts to the users and viewers of local news.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Gather content and see it through from online and on-air, to social distribution
• Responsible for logistics working directly with reporters, photographers, producers, managers, and the fellow content producers to cover the news of the day, as well as generate enterprise stories
• Responsible for monitoring a variety of “in” points for news—police, fire scanners, social media, email, internal wires, phone calls
• Plan and anticipate coverage
• Monitor police/fire scanners for multiple counties
• Field phone calls, monitor emails and scan multiple branded social media accounts for news tips from the public
• Dispatch crews to cover content for our digital, radio and television platforms
• Operate as an integral member of the content center team, and one of their primary responsibilities is to drive results to help us meet analytics-based goals and convert digital users into television viewers
• Distribute content on all platforms (broadcast TV, radio, digital apps, social media)
• Schedule may include nights, weekends and holidays, and overnights

Minimum Qualifications

• Keen sense of news judgement for each media platform—what drives audience on that platform
• Gather news through all platforms
• Excel at developing relationships and trust with contacts and sources
• Ability to handle other assignments as needed, showing flexibility, adaptability, problem solving skills, a person who collaborates with team members, with a positive, can-do attitude
• Understanding of Newsroom Logistics and ability to move crews
• Provide urgent writing of content for all platforms: TV, digital, and social.
• Willingness to evolve, learn new skills, innovative technology, embrace change
• Ability to prioritize a large volume of writing assignments based on urgency, platform needs and deadlines
• Knowledge of writing for all platforms—broadcast, digital, social, push alerts, radio
• Identify newsworthy content from scanners
• Ability to recognize trending stories online, provide timely updates for multiple platforms
• Must be social media savvy and possess thorough grasp of the use of social media for audience engagement
• Detail-oriented, highly organized planner
• Must be able to work any shift, including overnights, weekends
• Must be accessible to contact during big breaking news situations
• Strong understanding of grammar
• Good communication skills, work well with newsroom staff, and have technical knowledge of news gathering
• Strong editorial judgement, possess strong organizational skills and be digitally savvy
• Meet strict deadlines, be aggressive on breaking news and be self-motivated
• Study in a relevant field required (Journalism, Communications, Social Media, Broadcast Technology, English)
• Must have a valid driver's license and clean driving record

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in Journalism preferred

About Cox Media Group
CMG Media Corporation (d/b/a Cox Media Group) is an industry-leading media company with unparalleled brands, award-winning content, and exceptional team members. CMG provides valuable local and national journalism and entertainment content to the people and communities it serves. The company's businesses encompass 14 high-quality, market-leading television brands in 9 markets; 49 top-performing radio stations delivering multiple genres of content in 10 markets; a Washington, DC news bureau; and numerous streaming and digital platforms. CMG's TV portfolio includes multiple primary affiliates of ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, Telemundo and MyNetworkTV, as well as several valuable news and independent stations. For more information about CMG, visit 

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