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POSITION PURPOSE
The Digital Producer and Reporter, News will identify local trending stories that resonate with our target audiences and execute WFYI & WBAA online and social media strategies. This position also involves crafting compelling headlines, selecting impactful images and ensuring our social media strategies effectively engage a broader and more diverse audience while implementing best SEO practices. The ideal candidate for this role is a digitally savvy person who thrives in a fast-paced environment, has a passion for storytelling and a strong understanding of digital media. This individual also understands how to best use strong visuals and has demonstrated experience with social media journalism.
As a reporter, this role finds and quickly reports daily stories that answer the information needs for our primary local audiences - the Indianapolis metropolitan area and Tippecanoe County. They learn what people want to know. Some stories may take the form of Instagram and TikTok builds/reels, while others may be published across all available platforms.
This is a mission-critical role for our station as WFYI sets goals to extend our policy-equity reporting to larger, more diverse audiences.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
To be successful in this role, an individual must be able to perform in a satisfactory manner the essential functions and responsibilities listed below. We will make reasonable accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.
EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE
Required:
Preferred:
Experience with computer-assisted reporting.
Experience in data analysis methods.
Previous work in both broadcast and digital news reporting.
Familiarity with community engagement journalism.
Previous work in collaborations.
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