Editorial Producer

This is a Full Time Job

Seeking a hard-working, creative, and enthusiastic Editorial Producer to books guests for CBS News including: CBS Mornings, CBS Evening News, CBS News Streaming, and more!

This Editorial Producer pitches new stories while developing relationships with publicists, attorneys, companies, and various figures in the news. This Producer conducts pre-interviews, and facilitates logistics on a wide variety of segments including entertainment, features, and day of air/breaking. The ideal candidate can take initiative by making calls and can demonstrate proof of performance on past news stories. This position requires sound, unbiased news judgement, persistence, organization, ability to multi-task, as well as an excellent understanding of TV newsgathering. This person must have the ability to optimally communicate internally with newsroom managers, producers in other regions, as well as externally with guests and contacts.

Skills/experience
• 5 years producing experience in a professional newsroom is required.
• Degree or equivalent experience in broadcast journalism or related field is preferred.
• Must have proven news judgment and experience chasing breaking news and booking entertainment figures.
• Detailed understanding of the broadcast newsgathering process is required.
• Strong research skills are required, including working with public and private records databases such as Lexis Nexis.
• Experience supporting newsgathering teams in the field using solid news judgment and leadership skills is a plus.
• Thrives in fast paced and time-critical situations.
• Be an excellent writer with well-developed oral communication skills, especially when working on sensitive stories.
• Must be able to balance and prioritize multiple news pieces with different deadlines: short, medium, and long-term.
• Ability to manage ongoing relationships with external contributors, news outlets and other team members.
• Must be willing to travel on breaking news, and able to work occasional overnight and/or weekend shifts when necessary.

The hours for this role are Sunday-Thursday, 9am to 6pm PST.