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WHIO TV Dayton, the #1 CBS affiliate in the Nation is looking for an Executive Producer who is responsible for overseeing the production value and relentless execution of newscasts by a team of producers in our multi-platform newsroom. The Executive Producer will work with producers to craft newscasts that deliver valuable, impactful, well-paced content in a creative and relevant way, utilizing research-based goals. The Executive Producer must ensure each newscast OWNS weather, breaking news and traffic coverage. He or she must be a visionary who can lead innovation efforts in showcasing our reporters, investigative, and enterprise stories. The Executive Producer also plays a critical role in coordinating between TV, digital, and radio—the use of digital, social, and radio to drive viewers to newscasts, and the use of newscasts to drive viewers to digital, streaming content, and radio. The Executive Producer will also communicate with Breaking News & Assignment Desk leaders about story development. Finally, we're looking for a motivating, people-oriented leader, with excellent communication skills who will coach and develop producers and work with them to evolve our newscasts for the future.Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Oversee newscasts, ensuring they meet research goals and the mission of being the go-to source for weather, breaking news, and enterprise-investigative contentMust possess solid news judgmentOversee digital choreography with the digital team and producers; the use of push alerts to drive viewers to watch and engage with our ancillary digital-social contentSupervise Producers, ensuring newscasts contain valuable, easy, and clear contentEnsure newscast stories contain content, relevance, perspective—inject live throughout newscasts—we plan for moments of authenticity with anchors/reportersSupervise Producers to execute tease and 'meter click-point' strategies—emotion, nat soundEnsure newscasts regularly showcase and execute process languageEnsure innovation, creativity is used to showcase stories—use of set, graphics, maps, live camsRead scripts, putting new information and value at the top; forward writing, pointing to previous or exclusive coverageCopy edit newscasts for accuracy, spelling, and grammarMaximize use of graphics, maps, pre-production to make newscast clear and easy to understandWork with directors to ensure ideas can be executed with our control room automation systemAttend editorial meetings and regularly contribute story ideasSupervise producers to ensure newscast contains content from core counties, our viewing areaCoordinate Producer and Writer schedules, approving hours worked and PTOConduct reviews of Producers and Writers in collaboration with the Managing EditorLead continuous live coverage of breaking news and weather; help with special coverage plansHold newscast reviews and critiquesMinimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree from a 4-year college or university in Journalism, Communications, or related fieldMinimum 3 years of professional TV newscast producing experience requiredAbility to be a coach, motivating leader, and effective communicator who can work in a team environment is requiredPlease provide links to newscasts that demonstrate your skills with breaking news, weather, as well as your innovative showcasing and creativity with stories and newscast set

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