Yahoo Finance seeks a content producer

Yahoo Finance is seeking a producer with live control room experience to join our dedicated team.

We produce three live shows per day (9:25 a.m., 11:45 a.m. and 3:55 p.m.) and plan to expand them to cover more of the trading day. Flexibility and the ability to work on different shows are key.

Successful candidates will have experience selecting stories, writing anchor copy, choosing video and graphic elements as well as running a live show from the control room.

Responsibilities

Identify trending business news throughout the day, working with producers on other live shows to ensure full coverage of industry news
Build a rundown and write anchor copy for a one hour show every day
Work with video editors and graphic artists to build show elements
Book guests for show several times a week
Work with Yahoo Finance reporters to add creative video segments to their stories

Qualifications

5 years or more producing video content (business news and digital video a plus)
Excellent writing skills
Proven editorial judgment
Ability to multi-take / work on several projects at once
Deadline oriented
Video editing a plus

**Candidates must submit to a writing test**

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.