Executive Producer, KOAA at The E.W. Scripps Company in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Job Description:

KOAA, the E.W. Scripps owned NBC affiliate in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is looking for an Executive Producer to join our team.

The Executive Producer must be a proven newsroom leader who knows how to execute content strategy and also win breaking news and weather coverage on all platforms, maintain a strong sense of urgency with our newscast production and newsroom culture, and knows how to balance serious journalism with lighter moments critical to the success of our newscasts. The successful candidate will have overall responsibility for newscasts or local programs, including oversight on story selection, content, and production, ensuring that the station is competitive within the market.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Manages newsroom content and showcasing across multiple platforms, to improve the quality of our product and the growth of our audience as measured by ratings and analytics.




• Collaborates with producers, field crews, content coordinators, real-time desk editors, anchors, and other managers to select stories for coverage.




• Oversees and edits writing for all platforms, including stories, newscast teases, web headlines and social posts. Reviews digital and broadcast stories, ensuring accuracy and journalistic balance.




• On occasion, will produce newscasts.




• Hires, schedules and manages team of newscast producers to deliver and continuously improve the quality of our news programs.




• Develops and supervises effective workflow strategies and procedures for multiple programs and platforms.




• Provides regular coaching and feedback to individuals and larger groups.




• Operates with senior editorial authority in the newsroom when supervising managers are not available, and know when to call a supervisor for assistance with higher-level decisions.




• Ensures newscasts are consumer-focused and properly organized. Seeks insight from ratings trends and acts upon that data and other research.




• Coordinate national content for broadcast with Scripps leaders elsewhere.




• Monitors all product on all platforms for compliance to federal, state and local laws as well as First and Fourteenth Amendments, and trains staff to do the same.




• Develops a pipeline of talent.




• Performs other duties as assigned.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

• College degree in related field or equivalent experience preferred.




• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in digital media, journalism, broadcast or a closely-related field preferred.




• TV news producing experience strongly preferred.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Journalism: Skilled storyteller, journalistic ethics and libel.




• Working knowledge of television ratings.




• Advanced oral and written communication skills.




• Working knowledge of all media platforms and broad understanding of broadcast newsroom operations and equipment.




• Calm under pressure: able to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.




• Customer focus: understands customer needs, raises the bar on customer service, develops unified approach to exceed customer expectations.




• Very strong collaborator: involves others in problem solving and decision making, asks for and considers an array of perspectives, comfortable relying on the expertise of others and joint decision making.




• Manage execution: setting expectations, delegating, facilitating, removing barriers, measuring performance, and fostering accountability/recognition.




• Engage and inspire at all levels: create environment where people feel appreciated, and valued, are committed and want to excel, and want to define opportunities to improve the organization.




• Manage conflict: Constructive in working through differences, handles recurrent conflict, resolves issues between employees, preserves relationships.




• Decision making: Ties decisions to strategy, uses sound logic, makes decisions at the right time, brings others into decision making process, chooses the best alternative.




• Coach: Continuously cultivates capabilities by asking the right questions and equipping staff with tools, knowledge and opportunities they need to develop themselves.




• Delegation: is clear about lines of responsibility, allows staff to make mistakes, offers guidance without taking over, enables team to manage daily operation of their teams.

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COMPENSATION RANGE:

Annual Salary: $55,000.00 - $58,000.00

 

Pursuant to local salary transparency laws, the salary range posted is specific to candidates who will perform this work in Colorado.

 

WHAT WE OFFER (ADDITIONAL BENEFITS):

• A career path to grow your professional experiences




• Full medical, dental and vision benefits, as well as certain other health and wellness benefits




• Retirement savings plan with company match




• Other key company benefits include disability accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, life insurance, AD&D, ID protection, pet discount program, and employee assistance program. More details about timing and conditions of benefits eligibility and other plan terms and conditions will be provided upon hire.

SCRIPPS' COMMITMENT TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION:
At Scripps, we are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture that reflects the communities we serve. We are intentional about creating an environment where employees, our audiences and other stakeholders feel valued and inspired to reach their full potential and make authentic connections. We foster a workplace culture that embraces each person’s diversity, including the extent to which they are similar or different. Scripps leaders believe that an equitable and inclusive culture is not only the right thing to do, it is a business imperative. Read more about our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion at scripps.com.

ABOUT SCRIPPS:

The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) is a diversified media company focused on creating a better-informed world. As one of the nation’s largest local TV broadcasters, Scripps serves communities with quality, objective local journalism and operates a portfolio of 61 stations in 41 markets. The Scripps Networks reach nearly every American through the national news outlets Court TV and Newsy and popular entertainment brands ION, Bounce, Defy TV, Grit, ION Mystery, Laff and TrueReal. Scripps is the nation’s largest holder of broadcast spectrum. Scripps runs an award-winning investigative reporting newsroom in Washington, D.C., and is the longtime steward of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Founded in 1878, Scripps has held for decades to the motto, “Give light and the people will find their own way.”

As an equal employment opportunity employer, The E.W. Scripps Company and its affiliates do not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender, color, religion, age, genetic information, medical condition, disability, marital status, citizenship or national origin, and military membership or veteran status, or on any other basis which would be in violation of any applicable federal, state or local law. Furthermore, the company will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship for the company.

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