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 #3 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 Associate Producer is responsible for contributing story ideas; writing stories; organizing them within an energetic and memorable newscast or digital content for the web.

• 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

• Writes, produces and edits material that appeals to target audiences

• Research production topics using the internet, video archives, and other information sources

Requirements & Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree in Communications, TV/film or equivalent experience may substitute

• Understand brand building directives

• Interact well with video journalists, anchors, videographers, 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, and visual media

• Ability to meet quality standards for service & evaluate customer satisfaction

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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.

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