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DC News Now, a fast-growing Nexstar Media Inc. station in Washington, D.C., is seeking a Media Coordinator to play a crucial role in managing and organizing media assets across our news, production, and engineering teams. This hands-on position ensures the smooth operation of our media workflows, from content ingestion to archiving, without direct supervisory responsibilities.

Responsibilities

+ Oversee daily content management, including feeds, file transfers, and records.

+ Manage and ensure correct delivery of content to Master Control servers.

+ Serve as backup for Master Control operations in case of HUB connectivity issues.

+ Distribute media in the correct format and codec, with the ability to transcode as needed.

+ Coordinate and monitor local media workflows to ensure 100% accuracy of playout of recorded shows.

+ Collaborate with production, news, and engineering teams to maintain seamless media operations.

+ Establish, train, and maintain standard operating procedures for media asset management.

+ Manage media archive storage and retention, using best judgment to ensuring compliance with company policies.

+ Organize, distribute, delete, and archive media assets while determining appropriate storage workflows.

+ Monitor production schedules to ensure proper recording, ingest, movement, and archiving of media.

+ Assist with ingesting and recording tasks as needed by production staff or as directed by news management.

Qualifications

+ Experience: 5+ years in a Media Coordinator, Digital Asset Coordinator, or similar role in a broadcast or digital media environment.

+ Technical Skills: Proven experience managing raw feeds, edited packages, and production materials.

+ Expertise: Strong understanding of digital media workflows, including ingest-to-archive processes, and media asset management systems.

+ Collaboration: Excellent teamwork skills with the ability to work closely with news, production, and engineering teams.

+ Experience with Bit-Central preferred

The pay range for this position is $68,000-$72,000 salary. Other compensation includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K match, Vacation, and Paid Parental leave.

Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST) is a leading diversified media company that produces and distributes engaging local and national news, sports and entertainment content across its television and digital platforms, including more than 310,000 hours of programming produced annually by its business units. Nexstar owns America’s largest local television broadcasting group comprised of top network affiliates, with 200 owned or partner stations in 116 U.S. markets reaching 220 million people. Nexstar’s national television properties include The CW, America’s fifth major broadcast network, NewsNation, our national news network providing “News for All America,” popular entertainment multicast networks Antenna TV and Rewind TV, and a 31.3% ownership stake in TV Food Network. The Company’s portfolio of digital assets, including its local TV station websites, The Hill and NewsNationNow.com, are collectively a Top 10 U.S. digital news and information property. For more information, please visit nexstar.tv.

EEO Statement: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.