Associate Producer

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.

2 NEWS is looking for an **Associate Producer** who is responsible for contributing story ideas, writing stories, and organizing them within an energetic and memorable newscast or digital content for the web.

Duties & Responsibilities

* Assists in writing and production of broadcast or on-line publication
* Contributes to the editorial process and make solid decisions in breaking news situations
* Execute strategies that engage and grow audiences across all digital devices
* Work on digital streaming platform to assist with production of specialty programming
* Photograph local events and breaking news for digital platforms
* Writes, produces and edits material that appeals to target audiences
* Work with investigative team to develop leads
* Research production topics using the internet, video archives, and other information sources

Requirements:

* Bachelor’s degree in Communications, TV/film or equivalent experience may substitute
* Understand brand building directives
* Interact well with journalists, anchors, photographers, news managers, production, digital and engineering staff
* Detail oriented
* Excellent verbal, written, grammar and analytical skills
* Ability to develop strong news judgment
* Possess journalistic integrity and understanding of viewer needs and expectations
* Knowledge of media production, communication and dissemination techniques and methods, including alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, digital and visual media
* Ability to meet quality standards for service & evaluate customer satisfaction