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A friendly, affordable midwestern city with so much to offer. Work, play, and enjoy life in the “Gem City.” Dayton is known as the birthplace of aviation, and features a mecca of restaurants, festivals, museums, sports teams and entertainment. Forbes named Dayton one of the top 20 best cities to live in as a career professional. Trulia ranked Dayton the #2 least expensive city to live in out of the top 100 metropolitan areas in the country. Come join a growing team and affordable midwestern city.

The Senior News Producer supervises news content and line produces at least one hour of news, produces daily newscast items, decides the order in which stories will be told, writes teases and other content, times news programs, edits video, and posts video to the website.

Duties & Responsibilities

+ Responsible for finding and evaluating content; organizing it into a cohesive sequence within a newscast

+ Build rundown with strong editorial and creative judgement

+ Manage workflow efficiently and effectively

+ Write and copy edit scripts

+ Work with Executive Producer, Producers and Anchors on story selection and overall focus of the product

+ Contribute to the editorial process, including daily coverage and enterprise reporting choices

+ Coach and train other Producers and Writers

+ Produce newscasts as assigned

Requirements:

+ Bachelor's Degree in Communications, TV/Film or the equivalent work experience

+ At least three years’ experience producing newscasts

+ Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with anchors, reporters, photographers, graphic artists, production and engineering staff, managers, and others

+ Ability to adapt to change, meet deadlines, prioritize assignments, and handle multiple tasks simultaneously

+ Detail oriented and tactical, yet able to see the big-picture and execute broader, strategic initiatives

+ Well-organized, with excellent planning skills, while being flexible enough to quickly shift when necessary

+ Strong news judgment, journalistic integrity and understanding of viewer needs and expectations

+ Excel under tight deadlines, with emphasis on breaking news, developing stories and extreme weather coverage

+ Utilize state-of-the-art television technology in newsroom, control room and set/studio

+ Provide regular feedback on newscast with staff, both as a team and individually; coach less experience members of the team and help them develop their skill set

+ Proficiency with ENPS

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.