NewsNation Senior Booking Producer Dan Abrams Live (NYC)

NewsNation is looking for a creative, hardworking, proactive Senior Booking Producer to lead the booking team for the daily program Dan Abrams Live. As the show’s senior booking producer, you will work with the show’s Executive Producer and Senior Producers on the show’s booking strategy. You will also supervise the booking team helping to make the team effective, efficient, and nimble. You will also be responsible for providing ongoing coaching and mentoring of the show’s booking producers.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Pitch stories and segment ideas daily

• Coordinate daily assignments for booking team

• Facilitate long-lead bookings and futures planning

• Utilize own extensive list of contacts to find and book high-profile guests, as well as people at the center of major news stories

• Confirm guests and coordinate logistics

• Conduct pre-interviews and in-depth research on range of topics

• Find reliable guests/witnesses quickly during breaking news situations

• Organize and produce elements for show segments

• Work closely with producers, talent, & management to ensure that the show identifies new voices who we should have appear on the program

• Liaise with other booking producers and show teams on network wide projects and assignments

• Perform other duties as assigned by Executive Producer and Senior Producers

Qualifications & Requirements:

•BA/BS degree or equivalent degree in journalism or related field

•Five or more years’ experience in national or major-market news

•Must have strong news judgment

•Must have superior knowledge of current events

•Must be detail-oriented

•Must be self-directing, self-motivating and able to work will with a diverse group of people

•Must interact well with on-air talent, news managers, videographers, production, digital and engineering staff

•Must be able to handle stress, including short deadlines

•Must be able to work assigned shifts and be on call during overnights, mornings and weekends/holidays

• Experience with Lexis Nexis, ENPS would be valuable

Salary Range: $150,000 – $175,000 annualized.

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Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST) is a leading diversified media company that produces and distributes engaging local and national news, sports and entertainment content across television, streaming and digital platforms, including nearly 300,000 hours of original video content each year. Nexstar owns America’s largest local broadcasting group comprised of top network affiliates, with 200 owned or partner stations in 116 U.S. markets reaching 212 million people. Nexstar’s national television properties include The CW, America’s fifth major broadcast network, NewsNation, America’s fastest-growing national news and entertainment cable network reaching 70 million television homes, popular entertainment multicast networks Antenna TV and Rewind TV, and a 31.3% ownership stake in TV Food Network. The Company’s portfolio of digital assets, including The Hill and BestReviews, are collectively a Top 10 U.S. digital news and information property. In addition to delivering exceptional content and service to our communities, Nexstar provides premium multiplatform and video-on-demand advertising opportunities at scale for businesses and brands seeking to leverage the strong consumer engagement of our compelling content offering. For more information, please visit Nexstar.tv.

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