Live Producer, CBS Mornings

This is a Full Time Job

Hiring Salary Range: $77,040.00 - 125,000.00

CBS News and Stations, brings together the power of CBS News, 28 owned television stations in 17 major U.S. markets, the CBS News Streaming Network, CBS News Streaming local platforms, local websites and cbsnews.com, under one umbrella. CBS News and Stations is home to the nation’s #1 news program 60 MINUTES, the CBS News Streaming Network, the first 24/7 digital streaming news network, the award-winning broadcasts CBS MORNINGS, CBS SATURDAY MORNING, the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH NORAH O’DONNELL, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, CBS WEEKEND EVENING NEWS, 48 HOURS and FACE THE NATION WITH MARGARET BRENNAN. CBS News and Stations provides news and information for the CBS Television Network, CBSNews.com, CBS News Radio and podcasts, Paramount , all digital platforms, and the CBS News Streaming Network, the premier 24/7 anchored streaming news service that is available free to everyone with access to the internet. The CBS News Streaming Network is the destination for breaking news, live events, original reporting and storytelling, and programs from CBS News and Stations’ top anchors and correspondents working locally, nationally and around the globe. CBS News’ streaming services, across national and local, amassed more than 1.01 billion streams in 2021. Launched in November 2014 as CBSN, the CBS News Streaming Network is available on 30 digital platforms and apps, as well as CBSNews.com and Paramount . The service is available live in 91 countries. CBS News and Stations is dedicated to providing the highest quality journalism under standards it pioneered and continues to set in today’s digital age. CBS News earns more prestigious journalism awards than any other broadcast news division.

CBS MORNINGS is seeking a smart, creative, enterprising, and experienced Producer to join the team! The ideal candidate will have a firm command of journalistic standards, a keen attention to detail, and excellent newsgathering and storytelling skills. They must also be calm and efficient during breaking news and a collaborative member of a newsroom.

This person will primarily be responsible for producing live interview, chat and demo segments for a variety of topics including breaking news, high-profile interviews, politics, consumer, medical and cultural chats. The ideal candidate will have experience working in live news programming and can produce stories that are visually compelling. They must have strong news writing skills including writing sharp questions and identifying strong visual elements.

Responsibilities:

• Pitch, research, write, and produce news and entertainment live interview and chat segments for broadcast
• Select and gather visual elements including video, stills, graphics
• Prep elements and assist with editing segment production
• Write and produce segments (both live and tape)
• Coordinate with technical and operations staff

Qualifications:

• 5 years of television news work experience
• Ability to deal with deadline pressure and react with thoughtful programming ideas and creative storytelling
• Strong editorial judgement
• Clear and concise writing
• Mastery of story structure, visual graphics and elements
• Exceptional research skills, tracking down data and visual material