Local News Producer — Dynamic Breaking Coverage

Gulf Coast News; Fort Myers (FL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Gulf Coast News in Fort Myers, FL is seeking a Local News Producer to create meaningful and memorable newscasts. You will drive decisions, communicate plans, win big stories, own breaking news and display weather information with accuracy.

You must be fast and work well with a team, reporting to the Executive Producer. The role requires producing experience, newsroom background, strong writing/editing skills, and the ability to coordinate multiple crews while maintaining journalistic integrity.

Qualifications

• Professional or college producing experience.
• Experience working in a newsroom.
• Have writing and copy-editing skills.
• Coordinate several crews and responsibilities simultaneously.
• Experience summarizing information into easy-to-understand components.
• Creative presentation style, and ability to showcase all resources and elements.
• Have and exhibit the highest journalistic integrity and ethical standards.
• Must be available to work holidays, shifts including nights, weekends and overnights, and flexible with schedule to be available during breaking news.
• In person attendance required.
• Spanish Bilingual Preferred.
• Related military experience will be considered.

Responsibilities

• Select, research, and write content for live newscasts to make the newscast an "experience" for viewers.
• Work with and guide reporters in story production.
• Coordinate creative vision with team of anchors, reporters, meteorologists, photographers, editors, and production staff.
• Boothing assigned newscasts, breaking news and weather events.
• Live timing newscasts.

Skills

Production experience

Newsroom experience

Copy-editing

Crew coordination

Story summarization

Creative presentation

Journalistic integrity

Flexible schedule

In-person required

Spanish bilingual

Military experience considered

Job description

Gulf Coast News in Fort Myers, FL is seeking a Local News Producer to create meaningful and memorable newscasts. You will drive decisions, communicate plans, win big stories, own breaking news and display weather information with accuracy.

You must be fast and work well with a team, reporting to the Executive Producer. The role requires producing experience, newsroom background, strong writing/editing skills, and the ability to coordinate multiple crews while maintaining journalistic integrity.