CBS News is looking for a creative and dedicated full-time Associate Producer/Digital Journalist with great multitasking abilities!
Responsibilities:
- The primary duty of a DJ involves producing and shooting quality, compelling and creative visual content
- The DJ is expected to respond to breaking news stories and direct a field team to be in place to report for all platforms
- When the situation warrants, the DJ can act as a sole camera operator with a correspondent
- The DJ will regularly pitch ideas, contribute to original reporting, enterprise stories and the ability to work well under pressure to make deadline
- Shoot for breaking news, day of air, features
- Able to quickly turn around critical information for air, verifying its accuracy while simultaneously getting interviews and video coverage of the news event
- Ensure that all pictures and sound are of the highest quality and accurately recorded
- Coordinates transmission windows for live shots and feeds to the bureaus
- Provide creative input, pitch, and develop/execute original pieces
- Arrange interviews and location shots and produce content under strict deadlines
- Maintain camera gear and keep it up to date in working order
- Able to travel for assignments for that could last days or weeks and abroad
- Take ownership of situations and take issues to resolution
Qualifications:
- A candidate must possess excellent people skills, a strong work ethic and enthusiasm
- Ability to shoot and edit video
- Proactive, collaborative and possess a high level of creativity to tell stories with sound and images
- Able to quickly turn around critical information for air – verifying its accuracy – while simultaneously getting live phone interviews, live video, transmissions and/or taped coverage of the news event
- Tolerate being out in the elements during extreme weather events such as hurricanes and blizzards
- Strong editorial, logistical and technical skills are essential
- In depth understanding of newsgathering
- Phenomenal interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to listen and receive feedback
- Work under deadline pressure
- Have a driver’s license
- 3 years’ + experience as a reporter/MMJ/producer or extensive field production experience at a news organization
- Proven experience in the field, managing story development and leading newsgathering efforts, especially in breaking news
- Bachelors’ degree in Journalism, or related field preferred
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