Multi-Platform Producer

Location: New Haven, Connecticut, United States; full-time onsite role with a flexible schedule that may include evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Company

hirify.global operates WTNH and distributes local news content across digital, broadcast, social, and national media platforms.

What you will do

• Write, edit, and produce audience-first stories for digital articles, videos, social media, push alerts, live streams, and interactive formats.
• Monitor social chatter and trending stories using Chartbeat, Google Trends, and social media platforms; prioritize breaking news and manage multiple assignments under deadline pressure.
• Produce and edit digital video content and implement digital and social media best practices to engage and grow audiences.
• Work as an assignment editor by monitoring police scanners, booking guests, and assigning reporters and photographers.
• Discover, verify, and develop news from government agencies, wire services, community groups, and social media, including stories, photos, and videos.
• Coordinate newsroom coverage and digital-broadcast workflows, and distribute local content to national outlets and other Nexstar Digital platforms.

Requirements

• Experience writing, producing, or publishing content using journalistic standards.
• Proficiency in Associated Press style and Adobe Photoshop and/or Adobe Express.
• Strong writing, copy-editing, and headline-writing skills.
• Understanding of digital, streaming, and social media content strategies.
• Ability to learn new technologies and applications independently and quickly.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in a team environment.
• Strong news judgment, attention to detail, and ability to work effectively under deadline pressure.
• Ability to meet measurements of success and work varying shifts, including evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular, full-time, non-union, non-exempt employment.
• Flexible scheduling with possible evening, weekend, and holiday shifts.
• Content development is guided by accuracy, credibility, fairness, audience service, and innovative storytelling.
• Collaboration with managers and newsroom teams across digital and broadcast operations.