Executive Producer, Investigations

Fox Corporation; Brown Deer (WI); On-site; USD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Other benefits

Job summary

FOX Television Stations is seeking an Executive Producer of Investigations at FOX6 Milwaukee to lead our investigative desk and our Contact 6 consumer advocacy unit. The role combines hands-on leadership with daily newsroom collaboration to push deep-dive journalism across streaming, digital, and broadcast platforms.

You'll coach reporters, manage complex projects, and uphold high ethical standards while expanding distribution of investigative work beyond traditional packages across multiple

Qualifications

• Proven track record producing or managing investigative journalism, enterprise reporting, or long-form investigative units.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire seasoned investigative journalists to conceive, execute, and deliver multi-platform investigative projects and consumer advocacy coverage.
• Work directly with daily news reporters and producers to bring an investigative lens, public records strategies, and deeper context into daily enterprise reporting.
• Collaborate with news managers to build a high-trust newsroom culture through open communication and clear feedback.
• Keep momentum going on major stories across all platforms.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on complex journalistic ethics, legal vetting, public records requests, and investigative standards.
• Work across departments to drive new strategies for distributing investigative work beyond packageable content.

Skills

Investigative journalism leadership

Project management

Storytelling across platforms

Public records & FOIA

Ethical judgment

Cross-department collaboration

Tools

Newsroom software

Job description

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY

Fox TV Stations FOX Television Stations (FTS) owns and operates 29 full power broadcast television stations, including stations in 14 of the top 15 markets and duopolies in 11. Eighteen are FOX Network affiliates, and together the stations produce approximately 1,300 hours of local news every week. FOX LOCAL, the company's free ad-supported digital and streaming product, extends that news, weather and local content across connected TV & mobile devices. LiveNOW from FOX expands the FTS portfolio even further as the only national streaming services to be truly live 24/7, covering breaking news and events as they happen.

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE: Executive Producer of Investigations Vibe: Driven, strategic, organized, and obsessed with high-impact journalism across every platform. The Mission FOX6 Milwaukee is looking for a detail-oriented, creative, high-caliber journalist to lead our investigative team and our Contact 6 consumer advocacy unit. We need an Executive Producer who can manage major investigative projects, oversee our investigative podcast, and reimagine how deep-dive stories reach modern audiences on streaming, digital, and broadcast. This isn't a role spent sitting in an office waiting for project updates. We need a hands-on leader who is in the middle of our daily news operation-working alongside reporters and producers every day to bring investigative thinking, public records digging, and relentless follow-up into our everyday coverage. You'll lead with curiosity, courage, accountability, and empathy while coaching journalists to move beyond traditional package formats, guiding the team through complex ethical calls, and lifting the investigative standards across the entire newsroom. Clear communication is essential in this position. Beyond being organized, you must proactively connect employees across all departments so everyone clearly understands available elements, expectations, and deadlines needed to deliver a seamless, high-quality product.

What You'll Do

• Lead and inspire seasoned investigative journalists to conceive, execute, and deliver multi-platform investigative projects and consumer advocacy coverage.


• Work directly with daily news reporters and producers to bring an investigative lens, public records strategies, and deeper context into daily enterprise reporting.


• Collaborate with news managers to build a high-trust newsroom culture through open communication and clear feedback.


• Keep momentum going on major stories across all platforms.


• Serve as a trusted advisor on complex journalistic ethics, legal vetting, public records requests, and investigative standards.


• Work across departments to drive new strategies for distributing investigative work beyond packageable content.

What You Bring

• Proven track record producing or managing investigative journalism, enterprise reporting, or long-form investigative units.


• Sharp project management skills with the ability to juggle multiple initiatives, keep cross-department teams aligned, and keep long-term investigations on schedule while staying involved in daily newsroom needs.


• Ability to coach journalists past standard TV package formats into dynamic visual storytelling built for modern audiences.


• Clear strategy for distributing investigative work across streaming, digital video, podcast, and social media platforms.


• Strong command of legal standards, FOIA/public records laws, libel law, and ethical newsgathering techniques.


• Experience using modern newsroom production software, with adaptability to quickly master our station's specific workflow tools.

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.

Pay & Benefits

The pay rate/range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is $75,000.00-90,000.00 annually.

• medical/dental/vision


• insurance


• 401(k) plan


• paid time off


• other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents

Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.

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Company Culture

We're disruptors. We're big dreamers. We're believers in the future, in possibility, in potential. We're reinventing the world, every day. We create content for audiences big and small, global and local. We put our audiences first, and work hard to bring them stories they'll love, wherever they are and however they watch, listen and learn. Whatever your discipline, from on-air talent to behind-the-scenes tech guru to business and finance, the career opportunities at FOX are exciting, rewarding and game-changing. We seek out the most talented individuals – the dreamers, the disruptors and the visionaries –and we want them to know that they matter. We're committed to helping every single one of our employees feel valued and inspired, every day.