Producer, Daily News

Producer, Daily News

📍 Remote (U.S.-based) | 💼 Full-Time | 💰 S70,000-80,000/year

Join Courier Newsroom - an organization that drives journalism and empowers communities.

About COURIER: 

COURIER is a pro-democracy news network dedicated to building a more informed, engaged, and representative America. We reach audiences where they are online with factual, values-driven news and analysis. Our eleven local newsrooms and national brand provide Americans with news centered on the people and policies that affect their lives. Our reporting is primarily produced for social media platforms and online channels where our audiences spend their time, with an emphasis on video, graphics, and skimmable newsletters to inform and engage our audience in the ways they consume information today.

COURIER Newsroom is committed to building an inclusive workplace that values diverse perspectives and lived experiences. We strongly encourage women, people of color, individuals with disabilities, LGBTQ+ candidates, and those from all backgrounds to apply. As an equal opportunity employer, we strive to break down barriers and ensure every team member feels seen, heard, and supported.

About the role:

We’re looking for a creative, news and politics-obsessed, full stack Producer to serve as showrunner for mid-to-long form daily news content from COURIER.

You’ll work closely with talent – selecting stories, building the daily run-of-shows, writing set-ups, managing recording sessions, quickly editing and publishing to YouTube and podcast platforms, drafting copy and creating thumbnails, and selecting soundbites and editing clips for social media.

Key responsibilities:

Showrun: COURIER’s daily news and politics content

• Own the day-to-day production.
  
• Collaborate on editorial – helping to choose top stories, researching and writing the run-of-shows, and helping to shape the tone and POV
  
• Work directly with talent to structure and adapt each episode for podcast and YouTube
  
• Collaborate with editors and social team to cut for clips, shorts, and other platform-native assets
  
• Book and coordinate guest appearances (e.g., reporters, insiders, creators) and prep them for appearances

• Manage recordings – ensuring quality audio and video for all talent and guests

Experience: 

• Have 5+ years of experience producing daily news or politically-focused media for broadcast tv, podcast, or long-form digital media.. 

• Have worked in or around politics, journalism, or campaigns.
  
• Are an exceptional writer, editor and story-shaper.
  
• Know what makes a story stick on YouTube, TikTok, and podcast platforms

• Can quickly turn around a basic edit. Experience using Descript and Premiere Pro is highly preferred.

• Can create a compelling thumbnail. Photoshop and Canva experience is highly preferred.

• Can write clickable headlines and draft clear and accurate copy.

• Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative production environment and are great at keeping things moving
  
• Are deeply aligned with COURIER’s progressive mission.

Courier Newsroom offers the following benefits:

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO), 11 paid holidays a year
• An Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Full suite of health benefits
• 401k
• Flexible working arrangements

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