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WHTM-TV

Nexstar Media Group,Inc.

DESCRIPTION

This role is responsible for updating the local website, curating high-performing content, crafting homepage layouts driven by data, and helping to report the 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.

Essential Duties

  • 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, and always on the hunt for exclusive and or 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 local audiences.

  • Build positive working relationships with newsroom staff and management, work collaboratively on enterprise content, and creating opportunities to market web content on broadcast.

  • Promote and distribute news content on social media.

Education Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree preferred, or a combination of educational and work experience

Work Experience

  • 2 years of experience in digital content and journalism preferred

Responsibilities

  • 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

  • Regularly meets measurements of success

  • Strong understanding of Google Analytics; Chartbeat experience a plus

  • Proficiency in MS Office; HTML, CSS, and Photoshop experience a plus

Typical day

  • The website 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.

Measurements of success

  • Works well with local and regional newsrooms

  • Doesn’t miss big stories

  • Makes decisions based on data

  • Understands KPIs and regularly works towards those goals

  • Responds well to feedback and offers insights on how the audience is responding to content and headlines


JOB EXPERIENCE

Work Experience

  • 2 years of experience in digital content and journalism preferred


REQUIREMENTS

Education Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree preferred, or a combination of educational and work experience


ADDITIONAL INFO


HOW TO APPLY

Apply online at: https://nexstar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/nexstar

https://nexstar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/nexstar/job/PA-Harrisburg/Website-Producer_REQ-17228