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Multi-Platform Content Creator
TEGNA
Phoenix, AZ, United States
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Job Description
12News.com (KPNX-TV, NBC) in Phoenix is looking for a multi-platform content creator to help as we continue to transform our assignment desk and contribute to digital platforms.
What makes a strong candidate for this job? You have at least two years of professional experience programming digital content for a media brand, including in a competitive breaking news environment. This position will serve a variety of functions, including but not limited to working to transform and innovate the assignment desk, handling general assignment desk duties, and contributing to digital content. The ideal candidate is able to identify stories for all news platforms -- broadcast, digital and social -- that are smart, relevant to the community, and sharable. Your content development instinct is guided by social media signals, analytics and news experience. You are a creative team player who trains and mentors coworkers on digital and social best practices.
Key Duties:
• Improve assignment desk workflows to include social media discovery
• Work with team members to increase digital and social knowledge/skills through training
• Plan news coverage as directed by news management
• Dispatch crews to breaking news, make calls to news sources, and assist in finding stories, doing research and tracking story ideas
• Create content that is aligned with and enhances the station's brand
• Mine social media for story ideas and information
• Write, edit, publish and manage content on multiple digital platforms
• Optimize content for the community by tracking live web metrics and following 12 News best practices.
Job Requirements
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelors degree in journalism, communications, or equivalent experience
• At least two years of professional digital journalism experience
• Strong writing and grammar skills
• Fluency with digital/social analytics tools
• Proven ability to work in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment
• Previous experience with online CMS (WordPress, BlogSpot, Wix, etc)
• Solid editorial and social media judgement
• Experience posting to and monitoring multiple social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
• Ability to work outside of normal business hours
Desired Skills and Experience:
• Strong organizational skills
• Demonstrated experience working with people from across departments to create content for all platforms
• Basic image and video editing skills
• Basic HTML knowledge
About us:
TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA), formerly Gannett Co., Inc., is comprised of a dynamic portfolio of media and digital businesses that provide content that matters and brands that deliver. TEGNA reaches more than 90 million Americans and delivers highly relevant, useful and smart content, when and how people need it, to make the best decisions possible. TEGNA Media includes 46 television stations (including those serviced by TEGNA) and is the largest independent station group of major network affiliates in the top 25 markets, reaching approximately one-third of all television households nationwide. TEGNA Digital is comprised of Cars.com, the leading online destination for automotive consumers, CareerBuilder, a global leader in human capital solutions, and other powerful brands such as G/O Digital and Sightline Media Group.
TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are a drug free, EEO employer committed to a diverse workforce. We encourage and consider all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, family responsibilities, disability, enrollment in college or vocational school, political affiliation, veteran status or genetic information.