Nevada Broadcasters Association is hiring: Digital Producer I (32206) in Las Veg

Details:
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. is America’s largest local television and media company with 200 broadcast stations (including partner stations) in 116 markets addressing more than 68% of U.S. television households and a growing digital media operation. Nexstar’s platform delivers exceptional local content and network programming to inform and entertain viewers, while providing premium, scalable local advertising opportunities for advertisers and brands across all screens and devices. Learn more at www.nexstar.tv. KLAS 8 NEWS NOW is actively recruiting for a Digital Website Producer I. The Digital Producer’s role is responsible for updating the local website, curating high-performing content, crafting homepage layouts driven by data, and helping to report news — everything from quick-hit local stories to breaking news and enterprise reports. This role will work on building a loyal local audience by being responsive to traffic patterns and audience interest while serving as a steward of our brands.

Responsibilities:

• Curate and aggregate a steady stream of interesting content that is packaged and promoted in a way that generates engagement and repeat site visitation.
• Monitor all forms of media (print, TV, digital, blogs, and social) and be quick to report breaking news stories while always on the hunt for exclusive and trending content that will grow engagement and drive loyal, local traffic.
• Flexibility to perform duties.
• Excellent at writing headlines that grow audience and engagement.
• Prioritize packaging content that grows page views per visitor and time on site, using headline testing, metric tools, and observed patterns to guide decision making.
• Understand different ways to tell a story, particularly producing short videos and choosing great photos.
• Evaluate website traffic trends to make decisions on both daily content needs and longer-term content curation that will grow the local audience.
• Build positive working relationships with newsroom staff and management, work collaboratively on enterprise content, and create opportunities to market web content on broadcast.
• Promote and distribute news content on social media.

Requirements:

• 2 years of experience in digital content and journalism.
• Clever headline writer that gets readers to click.
• Strong multi-tasking abilities.
• Organized, technical problem solver, and quick decision maker.
• Capable of researching, interviewing, and writing original news articles.
• Knowledge of SEO best practices and AP Style.
• Enjoys working in teams and has excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ease with/ability to learn new technology independently and quickly.
• Strong communicator.
• Some schedule flexibility (nights, weekends).
• Regularly meets measurements of success.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• Strong understanding of Google Analytics; Chartbeat experience a plus.
• Proficiency in MS Office; HTML, CSS, and Photoshop experience a plus.

Typical Day:

The Digital Producer will attend local editorial meetings as needed/assigned. The Producer will have familiarity with local, regional, and national content and use data to make decisions on what stories to publish and how to showcase them on the website. The Producer will take stories from the newsroom and digital reporters and help package the content for optimal engagement. The Producer will need to improve headlines and thumbnail images. The Producer will communicate successes across the team and the regional group to maximize traffic across as many websites as possible.

Physical Demands & Work Environment:

The Digital Producer must be able to sit, conduct telephone conversations, use electronic mail, write letters and memos, conduct face-to-face discussions with individuals or groups, make decisions without supervision, and make decisions that impact the results of co-workers. The work is conducted indoors in environmentally controlled conditions. In addition, the Digital Producer must be able to handle, control, or feel objects, tools, or controls. Repetitive movements are required. Work may be conducted in extremely bright or inadequate lighting conditions.

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