Freelance AP, Overnights

FOX News Channel; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 39,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Fox News Channel in New York City seeks an experienced Freelance Associate Producer to join our headquarters. You will write for fast-paced overnight newscasts and be an exceptional storyteller with a command of news and cultural trends.

You will be a member of a strong, flexible team that produces both short newscasts and major breaking news coverage during prime time and overnight shifts. You will be offered a shift reflecting overnight hours and will monitor sources for major breaking news

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in journalism or related field preferred, or equivalent experience.
• National or large market local news experience
• Excellent writing, producing, and communication skills
• Solid news judgment and an outstanding grasp of politics, history, geography, and current events
• Ability to write in a vibrant conversational style that makes the news relevant, clear and catchy
• Substantial control room and breaking news experience
• Ability to meet quick deadlines and react to rapid news developments
• Flexibility to work daytime, overnights, and weekend shifts
• Finding the best part of a story and making it matter to a national audience
• Being creative and thinking 'outside the box'
• '#LI-BC1'

Responsibilities

• Produce news cut-ins during taped programming
• Produce short newscasts for digital services
• You will need strong editorial skills and quick reflexes to produce breaking news coverage during major events
• Write and produce hour-long programming during political coverage and international events scheduled for overnight hours

Skills

Writing

Producing

Communication Skills

Editorial Skills

News Judgment

Education

Bachelor's degree in journalism

Job description

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY

Fox News Media operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, FOX News Audio, FOX News Books, the direct-to-consumer digital streaming services FOX Nation and FOX News International and the newly announced platform FOX Weather. Currently the number one network in all of cable, FNC has also been the most watched television news channel for 20 consecutive years, while FBN currently ranks among the top business channels on cable. Owned by FOX Corporation, FOX News Media reaches 200 million people each month.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are looking for an experienced Freelance Associate Producer to join our New York City Headquarters. As Freelance Associate Producer, you will write for fast-paced overnight newscasts. You are an exceptional storyteller with a dedicated command of news and cultural trends. You will be a member of a strong, flexible team that produces both short newscasts and major breaking news coverage during prime time and overnight shifts. In addition to providing short daily newscasts, this team constantly monitors multiple sources for major breaking news. You will be offered the following shift: Friday, 7:30 PM ET - 3:30 AM ET, Saturday, 6:30 PM ET - 2:30 AM ET, Sunday, 6:30 PM ET - 2:30 AM ET.

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Produce news cut-ins during taped programming
• Produce short newscasts for digital services
• You will need strong editorial skills and quick reflexes to produce breaking news coverage during major events
• Write and produce hour-long programming during political coverage and international events scheduled for overnight hours

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• Bachelor's degree in journalism or a related field of study preferred, or equivalent experience
• National or large market local news experience
• Excellent writing, producing, and communication skills
• Solid news judgment and an outstanding grasp of politics, history, geography, and current events
• Ability to write in a vibrant conversational style that makes the news relevant, clear and catchy
• Substantial control room and breaking news experience
• Ability to meet quick deadlines and react to rapid news developments
• Flexibility to work daytime, overnights, and weekend shifts
• Finding the best part of a story and making it matter to a national audience
• Being creative and thinking 'outside the box'
• #LI-BC1

Equal Opportunity & Compliance

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 AND BENEFITS

Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay rate/range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is $28.00-36.06 per hour.

OUR 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.