Location: Southfield,MI, USA
**Overview & Responsibilities:**
The role and responsibility of local news stations is to accurately reflect and represent the communities where they live to hold the powerful accountable and to affect positive change in service to those communities. As we recommit to that purpose and reimagine how we engage with multi-platform audiences in the future, the CBS Owned Stations seek strong storytellers and content leaders who are as committed to creating tangible and meaningful impact in Detroit as we are.
The EP, Impacting Communities at CBS Detroit (WWJ) and Detroit50 (WKBD) will play a pivotal role in leading our next-generation storytelling efforts focusing on areas where we can affect change in the communities we serve every single day as well as ensuring balance and authenticity in our local products across platforms. You will be entrusted with guiding a team of reporters tasked with building relationships and sourcing original stories at the neighborhood-level. You will be responsible for surfacing and creating content across platforms focused on critical local issues and neighborhood triumphs, using storytelling to inspire compassion, mobilize communities, and spark action + conversations. EP's will design a strategic plan in partnership with the News Director and the Vice President of Content Development to ensure reaching this goal every day as well as work alongside the General Manager and Creative Services Director to identify and leverage those relationships/partnerships that could grow into brand-compliant station wide commitments and campaigns.
If you have a passion for community service and the ability to surface and create unique and untold storiesif you are able to build relationships and partnerships that can be used to bring a broader scope of community stories to our newscasts and news products, we want to hear from you!
Join us as we create a new community-based ecosystem of news gathering across CBS News and Stations.
**Basic Qualifications:**
Must have solid news judgement and strong story-telling skills
Accountable for community focused content ensuring accuracy and fairness
Must be able to ensure content is compelling across multiple platforms
Special attention to skills related to original/enterprise reporting, writing, graphics, story placement & timely communication that will inspire
Will partner with on-air, producing and writing other staff
Knowledge of desk top editing, graphics management and control room automation
Willing to work with all departments across disciplines, to produce relevant content
Strong social media skills
Compliance with CBS policies and journalistic standards
**Additional Qualifications:**
5 years or more experience as an Executive Producer or Assistant News Director a plus
Strong, measurable story-telling experience
Consistent track record in producing impactful community-based initiatives
Bachelors degree in journalism or similar field
Familiar with assigned market
Connected with key influencers within the community
Can manage all community-based campaigns with an emphasis on broad impact with neighborhood sensibility
Must be able to build and maintain partnerships with community leaders and organizations
CBS News and Stations, brings together the power of CBS News, 28 owned television stations in 17 major U.S. markets, the CBS News Streaming Network, CBS News Streaming local platforms, local websites and cbsnews.com, under one umbrella. CBS News and Stations is home to the nations #1 news program 60 MINUTES, the CBS News Streaming Network, the first 24/7 digital streaming news network, the award-winning broadcasts CBS MORNINGS, CBS SATURDAY MORNING, the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH NORAH ODONNELL, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, CBS WEEKEND EVENING NEWS, 48 HOURS and FACE THE NATION WITH MARGARET BRENNAN. CBS News and Stations provides news and information for the CBS Television Network, CBSNews.com, CBS News Radio and podcasts, Paramount +, all digital platforms, and the CBS News Streaming Network, the premier 24/7 anchored streaming news service that is available free to everyone with access to the internet. The CBS News Streaming Network is the destination for breaking news, live events, original reporting and storytelling, and programs from CBS News and Stations top anchors and correspondents working locally, nationally and around the globe. CBS News streaming services, across national and local, amassed more than 1.01 billion streams in 2021. Launched in November 2014 as CBSN, the CBS News Streaming Network is available on 30 digital platforms and apps, as well as CBSNews.com and Paramount+. The service is available live in 91 countries. CBS News and Stations is dedicated to providing the highest quality journalism under standards it pioneered and continues to set in todays digital age. CBS News earns more prestigious journalism awards than any other broadcast news division.
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