The Segment Producer role at NBC News Now's Top Story with Tom Llamas offers the opportunity to work on breaking news, feature stories, and investigative pieces across both live segments and tape packages on a high-profile primetime newscast.
We're looking for candidates who write compelling copy, have strong editorial depth, creative visual sensibility, and love collaborating on a team. The ideal candidate is capable of producing both live segments and tape packages. For live segments, they will write anchor copy, craft sharp questions, edit video and build graphic elements. For Tape pieces, they'll report out a story, book interviews, clear video, write the script, and edit the piece themselves. Strong writing and editing skills are a must, and shooting skills are also necessary.
This position is represented by the NewsGuild-CWA.
Responsibilities:Research, write and produce strong editorial copy with speed and accuracy in a fast-paced environmentProduce live guest segments; write sharp questions and identify the strongest elements/anglesPitch the most relevant, timely and compelling ideasEdit their own elements for live segments and edit complete tape packagesMulti-task and juggle producing multiple stories for regular and breaking-news programmingAdhere to NBC editorial standards and practicesEffectively communicate and collaborate with team members, correspondents and anchors.