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Media Content Manager
The E.W. Scripps Company
Nashville, TN, United States
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Description
The Media Content Manager is a strong journalist and leader who will manage news assignments and coverage across all platforms. This position is expected to facilitate winning coverage with strong advance planning, coordinating logistics, monitoring scanners, wires, and social media, and managing the desk staff. We are looking for a digitally focused manager who working with News Management and the Digital Director can help coordinate coverage on every media platform. You would take a lead role in news future planning and coordinating cross platform coverage in cooperation with news EPs and the Digital Director to help us grow our audiences and engagement.
Key activities
• Plan news coverage as directed by news management
• Work with staff to plan, structure, report and write news and information for web sites and other social media platforms
• Point person for daily accountability of news crews for digital content
• Dispatch crews to stories and breaking news, using appropriate logistical and journalistic judgement
• Make calls to news sources as needed, gaining appropriate and actionable information
• Find stories, conduct research and track story ideas with emphasis on key brand points
• Work with other departments as needed to promote our brand
• Perform other duties as needed and as directed by news management
• Keep news managers and producers informed on progress of new stories
Education & Experience/Certifications
• Bachelor's degree in communications or in a related field
• Prior experience as assignment editor, assignment manager, or other related experience
Skills & Abilities
• Basic computer skills; Microsoft Office, non-linear, and production techniques
• Ability to perform multiple tasks in a fast paced environment
• Ability to work independently
• Understanding of the principles of responsible journalism
• Ability to work well with others in a team-based environment
• Ability to write effectively
About Us
The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP) serves audiences and businesses through a growing portfolio of television, radio and digital media brands. Scripps is one of the nation's largest independent TV station owners, with 33 television stations in 24 markets and a reach of nearly one in five U.S. households. It also owns 34 radio stations in eight markets. Scripps also runs an expanding collection of local and national digital journalism and information businesses, including multi-platform satire and humor brand Cracked, podcast industry leader Midroll Media and over-the-top video news service Newsy. Scripps also produces television shows including "The List" and "The Now," runs an award-winning investigative reporting newsroom in Washington, D.C., and serves as the long-time steward of the nation's largest, most successful and longest-running educational program, 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 on race, sex, sexual orientation, 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.