Job Description:

Calling all Content Creators --- are you good at:

 Using video and sound to tell emotional visual stories? Writing factual and compelling copy that can connect with hearts & educate minds? Crafting messages with the specific purpose of looking out for others? Blending current and traditional video styles successfully so the same video works on multiple news platforms? Getting to know your community – in this case, a rapidly growing community on the sunny Gulf Coast of Florida?

WFTX in Ft Myers-Cape Coral, Florida is looking for a Morning News producer. We innovate daily so our team is always thinking about how to deliver local news and video differently, in ways that reach our audience where they are more effectively, whether it’s on TV or on their phones. The market has a high volume of fast-moving, unpredictable news and weather, which includes daily tropical storms and a built-in annual hurricane season (Google Hurricane Ian, and you’ll see what we mean).

What about professional development?  You get daily access to veteran journalists.  The news managers and senior journalists at Fox 4 have a combined 80+ years of reporting, producing, anchoring experience to tap in to.  And…you get competitive pay. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Develop and organize newscasts or local programs. 


• Write story development and showcasing.


• Collaborate with reporters, anchors, news managers and assignment editors to determine content needs.


• 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 Web sites.


• Perform other duties as assigned.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

• BS/BA in related discipline preferred or equivalent years of experience.


• Generally, 2+ years of experience  in related field preferred.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• 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.


• Working knowledge of journalistic ethics and libel laws and strong editorial judgment.


• 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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