Digital Line Producer

CBS NEWS MINNESOTA is looking for a Digital Content Producer to work on WCCO’s live streaming network and other digital outlets, managing and creating content for audiences. The content producer will work with a digital team managing, optimizing and timing live and on-demand video content for mobile, desktop and OTT platforms. This position works in coordination with News Managers and Broadcast Line Producers during live news programs, and takes on other responsibilities such as writing headlines, conducting interviews, editing and publishing video, and increasing SEO and shareability of all content. For more details and to apply, click here.

CBS NEWS Minnesota is an equal opportunity employer.

Marketing Consultant

WUCW is looking for an enthusiastic, motivated Marketing Consultant who will meet or exceed revenue goals by designing creative client campaigns that drive desired business results. We are looking for someone who can connect with clients and help them achieve their business objectives through effective TV, Sports, OTT and Digital advertising.

In this position, you will:

  • Generate revenue for the station and meet monthly goals through effective outside sales techniques
  • Develop new business and create results for clients through creative and effective targeted campaigns
  • Research and build campaign solutions, including overall branding and creative and ensure campaign execution meets client expectation
  • Establish trusting relationships with clients, community and Sinclair and meet all commitments with adequate preparation, delivery and follow-through
  • Grow your book of business in alignment with goals while identifying companies that are expanding, relocating, hiring
  • Meet or exceed revenue targets for existing, new, and digital business, as well as corporate initiatives and develop a strategy to support achievement of goals
  • Grow share of clients’ advertising spend while increasing their overall spend
  • Support quality deliverables to drive client results
  • Support collection of receivables
  • Build and enhance sales skills, to include effective story-telling, prospecting and relationship-building, negotiation, closing
  • Develop capabilities to produce creative and effective campaigns

The ideal candidate will have the following skills:

  • Passion for contributing to a sales team with a positive mindset
  • Driven by practical results, opportunities to learn, and opportunities to assist others with intention
  • Effective relationship building, customer service, communication and negotiation skills
  • Superior business acumen related to new media, digital interactive initiatives and social media required
  • Media sales experience preferred and an excellent understanding of tv and media plans, advertising marketplace, and key competition
  • Ability to quickly recover from adversity
  • Ability to effectively communicate, build rapport and relate well to all kinds of people
  • Professional appearance a must
  • Reliable transportation, valid driver's license and a satisfactory driving record

Our Marketing Consultants are some of the highest commissioned sales people in the industry. If you are interested in selling some of the best media in the industry, we want to hear from you!

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Workplace!

About Us

Make your mark in Media with Sinclair Broadcast Group, a diversified media company dedicated to connecting people with content everywhere! We have consistently led the broadcast industry since our inception, and now Sinclair owns the largest regional sports network business and one of the largest television broadcast portfolios in the country. In addition, we have affiliations with all of the major broadcast networks, own Tennis Channel, and several multicast networks including TBD and Comet. Our content is distributed over-the-air, on multi-video providers, and through our industry-leading digital media platforms. We also recently launched a free TV streaming service called STIRR. Our success is the direct result of our extraordinary employees and management team who believe in our vision and are dedicated to ensuring a great future for our employees. We are advancing the world of Media and want YOU to join our winning team!

About the Team

The life-blood of our organization is our people. We have a compelling story, a goal-oriented culture, and we take really good care of people. How good? Here is a glimpse: great benefits, open door policy, upward mobility and a strong desire to see you succeed. Ready to be part of a winning team? Let’s talk.

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WUCW is an equal opportunity employer.

Listener Engagement Director

If you love Christian teaching and talk radio, engaging listeners, overseeing events and initiatives, expanding digital development, and making an impact for Christ, you may be just who we’re looking for! Faith Radio, a Northwestern Media ministry based in St. Paul, MN has an opening for a full-time Listener Engagement Director. This is a unique opportunity to be a part of a fun and effective team where you will have all of the tools necessary to impact thousands of people’s lives across the country and around the world for Christ. We encourage you to learn more about our ministry at https://myfaithradio.com/; see position details and apply at https://jobs.unwsp.edu/.

 

Faith Radio is an equal opportunity employer.

Investigative Reporter

WCCO-TV in Minneapolis/St. Paul is seeking an Investigative Reporter. 

JOB DESCRIPTION:
-  Enterprise dynamic short-term and long-term investigative reports for WCCO-TV, CBS News Minnesota and WCCO.com

-  Dig for answers to key questions, offering context and perspective

-  Humanize problems and offer solutions to build community understanding

-  Be creative! Must explain key takeaways and data discoveries in an engaging and memorable way

-  Manage to contribute to daily and breaking news and weather content

-  Use open records laws and computer-assisted reporting skills to uncover information and context

-  Must appreciate the appetite of our digital audience, meeting deadlines whenever news happens and talking to viewers wherever they are consuming.

-  Collaborate optimally with colleagues in News, Digital, Legal, Promotion, Production and Engineering

-  Meet all news standards and production deadlines for all platforms

-  Must be open to MMJ assignments, strong shooting, writing and editing skills preferred

-  Be a champion for our community and connect with locals by representing the station at events

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
-  At least 5 years of experience in a medium market; investigative reporting preferred

-  Must love characters and experiential storytelling

-  Must be results oriented, curious, creative and committed to collaboration

-  Must have strong organizational and communication skills

-  Must be flexible to working all shifts, including mornings and weekends

-  Must have a valid driver’s license

For more details and to apply, click here.

WCCO-TV is an equal opportunity employer.

Promotions Producer

KMSP-TV and WFTC-TV in Minneapolis/St. Paul is seeking a Promotions Producer.

We are actively seeking out the next member of our dynamic creative team. We want a self-starter who thrives in the fast-paced news environment.  Someone who can push the creative envelope to new heights and has a competitive spirit. A creative guru with the ability to make messages come to life.  A person who loves local news, stories and has their finger on the pulse of the community.  If these qualities describe you, please read on about our exciting Promotion Producer opportunity

In this role, you will:

  • Bring the FOX 9 and FOX 9+ brands to life through a strategic promotions that cut through the clutter using compelling writing, directing, creative shooting/lighting, and editing
  • Have a vision for how we weave our brand into everything we do while adhering to style guidelines and our look of clean, classy, and contemporary
  • Be able to connect with diverse demographics by crafting innovative and conversational promos that effectively reach and connect with targeted audiences
  • Embrace the news vision and executes promotions that drive viewership and station identity
  • Collaborate throughout the creative process and is able to evolve promotional concepts from concept to completion
  • Work with the Senior Graphic Designer to create custom news graphics and set designs, web, and digital/social media graphic
  • Regularly partner with news, sales, and on community initiatives.  Listens to their needs and then applies creative vision and technical expertise to successfully deliver the desired product.
  • Provide excellent customer service to both internal and external customers
  • Leverage understanding of the digital landscape to craft platform-specific messages.  Must be able to target social media advertising to desired demos.
  • Set up, run and tear down at off-site promotional events
  • Stay current with the latest trends, production advancements and, techniques. Utilize these opportunities to continue to evolve our messaging and presentation. 
  • Perform other duties as assigned

Qualified Candidates:

  • Are professional and will be a positive station citizen
  • Have a track record of meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment
  • Are innovative, edgy and willing to take risks
  • Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Can accept constructive feedback.
  • Have a strong attention to detail
  • Are able to smoothly transition between job assignments and projects
  • Have expert skills with the following technology: Adobe Creative Cloud applications (Premier Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Audition) and Microsoft Office Suite
  • Have a degree in broadcasting, communications or marketing and a minimum of 2 years of broadcast (or equivalent) experience

For more details and to apply, click here.

KMSP-TV and WFTC-TV is an equal opportunity employer.

Investigative Producer

KMSP-TV and WFTC-TV in Minneapolis/St. Paul is seeking an Investigative Producer.

Raging curiosity.

Burning tenacity.

Data-driven wizardry.

Did we mention curiosity?

The Emmy-award winning FOX 9 Investigators of KMSP Minneapolis/St. Paul has an extremely rare opening for a market-leading Investigative producer.

We don’t bother with those “test the hotel sheets” tired stories. Our Investigative team digs deep, focuses local, never takes no for an answer and always brings the story home.

You’ll work with a dedicated four-person unit to generate and bring to life investigative stories that are impactful and meaningful. Our team doesn’t just dabble in sweeps stories. We are dedicated twelve months a year to Investigative journalism on all platforms, not just television.

Just some of the skills you’ll have:

  • Source and relationship building.
  • Data-based mining.
  • Fearless interviewing techniques that can pivot to empathy when needed.
  • Records laws knowledge base.
  • Unique, non-cliché writing skills.
  • Multi-tasking prowess.
  • And the ability to generate enterprise, impactful stories that are 100% documented and verified.

If you’ve gotten this far, you know the rest. Undercover shoots. Creating and sending data requests. You’ll have the power of the entire newsroom behind you plus a nationwide station group.

And wow, when you and your team break a ground-shaking investigation that changes laws, holds influencers accountable, comforts the afflicted…you’ll know you’re making a difference. For more details and to apply, click here.

KMSP-TV and WFTC-TV is an equal opportunity employer.

Morning News Planning Producer

KMSP-TV and WFTC-TV is seeking a Morning News Planning Producer. 

Do you live for the next instagram post from your favorite lifestyle expert?

Do you stream all the latest entertainment shows?

Do you have a hard news side and are curious to learn more about something?

Then do WE have the job for you!

FOX 9/KMSP, the FOX O and O in Minneapolis/St. Paul is growing every year. We are now searching for a Morning News Planning Producer. The number qualification for this job: be a self-starter.

Your primary responsibility: finding LIVE segments and guests for our #1 rated Morning News shows. You’ll come to the table every day with original segment and guest ideas and then be responsible for producing these segments. You will:

  • Establish and maintain a weekly calendar of live guests, live talkbacks (local or satellite), and other live segments both in studio and remote. These will be both hard news and feature-oriented.
  • Establish and maintain professional relationships with contacts for segments. Included, but not limited to: Experts in professional fields, entertainment and sports industries, Public Information Officers, government and corporate personnel, etc.
  • Establish and maintain a communication system for critical information of segments. Communications should include contact and background info, official reports or research for harder-news segments; questions and background for feature segments.
  • Write and produce these segments independent of newscast producer.  This includes structuring the entire segment, writing dynamic copy, creating graphics, ordering video and sound to be created, and the like.
  • Field produce live coverage of large-scale events as needed. Field produce for taped field segments as well.
  • Work with reporters, anchors and other on air staff to enterprise story ideas for those staffers to create content for the shows.
  • Assist the digital team and the assignment desk as needed, especially in breaking news situations both locally and nationally.
  • Respond in these situations with ideas for ad-hoc live guests, Zoom/video interviews and other perspective material to support continuing coverage.
  • Be able to line-produce newscasts when needed.
  • Be able to produce digital and social media elements for segments and other Morning news material.

You must be extremely self-reliant and organized. Have excellent communication skills both interpersonally and written. Have a strong knowledge of newsroom infrastructure and aggressive nature to contribute in a self-starting manner. Be a great newsroom citizen, positive and supportive. Previous experience producing newscasts or working on an assignment desk is required. For more details and to apply, click here.

KMSP-TV and WFTC-TV is an equal opportunity employer.

Producer

KMSP-TV and WFTC-TV in Minneapolis/St. Paul is seeking a Producer. 

We are searching for a full-time newscast producer who is aggressive and passionate about local news. Our producers have a strong vision for their shows and deliver engaging newscasts with strong writing and production skills. Candidates will be expected to create rundowns, craft segments, work well under pressure and deadlines. Candidates must have strong news judgment, solid writing skills, knowledge of current events and excellent communication skills. Knowledge of television production techniques and newsroom computer systems is required. Knowledge of Internet publishing and related skills strongly preferred. We require experience in a medium to major market and a four-year college degree. Producer would also train as back-up to all newscasts, as well as contribute to all of our social media platforms. For more details and to apply, click here

 

KMSP-TV and WFTC-TV is an equal opportunity employer.

Production Technician

WDIO-TV in Duluth, Minnesota is seeking a Production Technician. This position is responsible for all of the studio production elements as well as the operation of studio cameras and production equipment for live and recorded television newscasts and shows. For more details and to apply, click here.

WDIO-TV is an equal opportunity employer.

Digital News Intern

WCCO-TV in Minneapolis/St. Paul is seeking a Digital News Intern. WCCO-TV's News Internship Program is designed to provide experience for students pursuing careers in television broadcasting and digital storytelling. Interns have the opportunity to shadow and assist our staff to learn more about the television business, specifically broadcast news. For more details and to apply, click here.

WCCO-TV is an equal opportunity employer.