Morning Executive Producer

TEGNA Inc. • Dallas, TX

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About The Position

TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) helps people thrive in their local communities by providing the trusted local news and services that matter most. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches more than 100 million people monthly across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. Together, we are building a sustainable future for local news.
WFAA in Dallas is looking for a seasoned Morning Executive Producer. This person must have strong news judgement plus have an eye for creativity and collaboration needed for our powerhouse team and morning show. This leader should know how to motivate a fully engaged team and ensure the high-quality standards of the WFAA Morning Show brand are in place every day. The ideal candidate should identify as a strong news leader that can execute vision with urgency and impact plus manage an audience focused content calendar that aligns with the needs of our community.

Requirements

• 3+ years newsroom leadership experience needed as an EP, assistant news director, or news director
• Experience successfully leading teams through content transformation
• Strong understanding of the tenets of professional journalism
• Knowledge of ENPS, Edius, photojournalism, editing, and content management systems a plus
• Experience building coverage on streaming including wall to wall weather, continuous breaking and unique special content that drives minutes watched
• Digital mindset that drives team to create mobile shorts and opportunities to grow our digital and streaming audiences with unique morning show talent and content
• Know how to run a strong content calendar
• Organizational skills and the ability to work under constant time-sensitive deadlines
• BA/BS in journalism, communications or related a plus

Responsibilities

• Grasp the content that matters to our communities and know how to bring timely coverage and conversation to our shows every day
• Oversee the morning newscasts to ensure the brand promise and strategies are met
• Regularly critique newscasts with the staff, both as a team and with individual producers
• Hold a strong standard for the entire newscast, both streaming and linear, and its content that aligns with audience research and needs
• Identify daily opportunities to have our news get noticed and reach new audiences including mobile shorts
• Run a storytelling content calendar, operating 3-4 weeks out to allow for proper planning for the content creators and show vision
• Lead teams in the creation of unique, shareable content
• Skillfully use AI, social media and digital tools to research, discover and distribute content
• Work with the story desk to identify and assign content appropriately for each platform
• Encourage innovation, risk-taking and powerful storytelling in crafting great newscasts
• Inspire enterprise stories and coordinate special coverage with news leadership team
• Challenge the norm
• Help create a multi-platform experience
• Work collaboratively with other managers on big projects and overall transformation of the newsroom in balancing streaming, linear and digital coverage in a high pace marketing 4 atmosphere

Benefits

• TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance.
• Our 401(k) program offers full, part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNA’s 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one.
• Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans, ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc, and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health.
• TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year.
• Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement and thus some or all of the benefits described herein may not apply. For example, some newsroom bargaining unit employees receive health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive