Digital Content Producer - Breaking News & Social

Gray Media; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

WMC is in search of a Digital Content Producer to join our team. The ideal candidate will be a journalist with strong writing skills who creates news content across all digital platforms.

They are an innovative self-starter who beats deadlines and the competition, handles pressure, and strives to be first and best with the story. The right candidate must have a passion for local and national news and excel at writing and creating content for all digital platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in journalism, communications, or a related field.
• Strong news judgment and the ability to gather information.
• Resourceful with online research and fact-checking.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with solid knowledge of AP Style.
• Able to work well under pressure, meet daily deadlines, and handle limited supervision.
• Highly self-motivated with a proactive mindset and strong sense of initiative.
• Familiarity with Canva, basic video editing tools, and social media scheduling platforms preferred.
• A sharp eye for detail and a willingness to learn new and evolving technologies.
• Comfortable working independently and collaboratively as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Work quickly and accurately to send out breaking news, weather, and traffic alerts via push notifications, social media updates, and web stories that are updated as news develops.
• Demonstrate excellent writing, copy-editing, and storytelling skills.
• Coordinate livestreams across multiple platforms.
• Monitor news sources and conduct research to develop digital and social media content.
• Collaborate and communicate with reporters, other digital team members, producers, anchors, and managers to gather content for online and on-air.
• Write engaging digital headlines and compelling captions for social media.
• Explore ways to increase visual content on all digital and social media platforms.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• The position may require evening and weekend work.

Skills

Strong writing

AP Style

News judgment

Under pressure

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in journalism, communications, or related field

Tools

Canva

Video editing tools

Social media scheduling platforms

Job description

WMC is in search of a Digital Content Producer to join our team. The ideal candidate will be a journalist with strong writing skills who creates news content across all digital platforms.

They are an innovative self-starter who beats deadlines and the competition, handles pressure, and strives to be first and best with the story. The right candidate must have a passion for local and national news and excel at writing and creating content for all digital platforms.