TEGNA is hiring: Supervising Producer, Mornings in Atlanta

Overview

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Atlanta is a destination for many journalists. Here’s a rare chance to join the news team that experienced the most market audience growth in 2024. WXIA (11Alive), the TEGNA-owned NBC affiliate in Atlanta, is seeking a veteran producer to lead our morning newscasts, mentor the team and raise the bar by providing focus on the news and information viewers most need and want from a morning newscast. You’ll have a chance to use your fresh eyes to bring about change.

Responsibilities

• Guide editorial decision-making as a leader in the newsroom.
• Push our shows to be filled with context and stand out from the competition.
• Show off your creativity and storytelling skills.
• Craft stories of all lengths on all platforms for specific audiences.
• Meet daily deadlines.
• Combine live pictures, graphics, compelling video and emotional sound to create an engaging experience for our audience.
• Booth continuous coverage on our live streams for breaking news.
• Consistently try new things after thoughtful discussion with supervisors.
• Allow the impactful and emotional conversations the community needs to drive the content in your rundown.
• Use data analytics to help shape the content of your show.
• Challenge traditional ways of doing things.
• Advocate for underrepresented people, communities and viewpoints to have a voice and presence in your show.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in journalism, communications or related field.
• 7-10 years of news producing experience, preferably local television.
• Top-notch communication skills are an absolute must.
• Solid journalistic judgment and a news philosophy that emphasizes accurate, fair and unique local content, and topics inside the 11Alive content pillars: safety, traffic, cost of living and community.
• Understanding of the tenets of professional journalism.
• Skills in producing engaging, content-driven newscasts and digital content.
• Organizational skills and the ability to work under time pressure deadlines.
• Ability to calmly handle live, breaking news situations and changing events.
• ENPS and Edius system experience, preferred.
• Familiarity with or a reason to relocate to Atlanta will set your application apart.
• A sense of humor also won’t hurt.

Benefits

TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families. This includes medical plan options through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas with access to dental and eye care coverage, fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance, disability and life insurance. Our 401(k) program offers company matching and full vesting from day one.

All employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctor’s appointments through Teladoc and 12 free annual therapy sessions through Spring Health. TEGNA also provides a generous PTO policy and nine paid holidays per year.

Note: Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement, and some benefits may not apply to certain roles depending on bargaining unit status.

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