Houston,TX
Graham Media Group
DESCRIPTION
KPRC 2, the Graham Media Group owned / NBC affiliated station, seeks an innovative digital journalist who is eager to create engaging daily and enterprise content in the country's fourth largest city.
JOB EXPERIENCE
This multi-platform content creator will join a leading media company that’s focused on both individual and station success and growth. A highly motivated and creative digital content producer will thrive in our fun, fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
The ideal candidate will have online news experience, including an in-depth knowledge of content creation, digital video and image editing, and working with a content management system. Our new team member will understand how to develop stories that stand out and appeal to today’s digital audience.
Hours may include evenings, weekends, and holidays.
REQUIREMENTS
Responsibilities include:
- Creating and posting breaking, daily, and enterprise content on Click2Houston.com and connected apps, including articles, livestreams, images, videos, and galleries
- Pitching story ideas and seeing them through from start to finish
- Managing the KPRC 2/Click2Houston YouTube page and content creation during each shift
- Monitoring and helping develop meaningful engagement with our audience through the comments section on our site and apps
- Creating social media posts that successfully build an audience and that drive traffic to KPRC 2 programs and platforms
- Scouring social media and watching google trends, in order to promptly create content that people are talking about and sharing
- Developing engaging elements in content, including polls, quizzes, Click2Pins photo and video solicitations and galleries
- Acting quickly to cover high-interest topics and related angles for big story and breaking news coverage
- Crafting push alerts that grab audience attention for newscasts and digital content
- Collaborating with producers, anchors, and reporters to develop content and promotion for content that appeals to viewers and readers
- Reviewing, developing, and sending assigned newsletters
- Supporting initiatives to grow our KPRC 2+ livestream, KPRC 2 Insider membership program, and KPRC 2 Community campaigns
Qualifications
- At least 3 years of experience working with digital content creation, social media and SEO
- Ability to multitask and perform in a fast-paced environment
- Strong AP-style writing and proofreading skills (candidate will take a writing test)
- Sound editorial judgment
- College degree in Journalism/Communications preferred
- Proficiency with digital tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Bilingual in Spanish a PLUS
Knowledge of Houston and surrounding area
ADDITIONAL INFO
HOW TO APPLY
Tiffani Lupenski ([email protected])