Director, Medical Unit / Health Coverage. Location: Atlanta
Qualifications: 7-10 years of newsroom/unit management. Excellent
management and leadership skills. Experience as producer, copy editor or
similar. Thorough understanding of network programming, production and
editorial new flow. Degree in Journalism, Broadcasting or similar.
Strong leadership skills, experienced management skills, excellent
communication skills. Skilled at building relationships, working through
problems, analyzing situations, multitasking, determining priorities and
finding solutions in high-pressure situations. Ability to interact with
senior level colleagues and executives. Thorough understanding of the
business side of network management, including marketing, promotions,
public relations, human resources, network distribution and ad sales.
Duties: The Director of Health Coverage serves as primary NewsGroup
contact for health/medical newsgathering, interacting regularly with
CNN, HLN, CNNI, .com, CNNE, etc. He/she oversees field shoots, event
coverage and network guest bookings for medical coverage. The director
determines the direction of news health coverage for the networks.
He/she coordinates medical editorial content as cleared by the Row, S&P
and legal department. He/she also oversee breaking news presentation.
The director is responsible for the on-air look of segments, the quality
of health reporting and on-air performance of health correspondents.
Other duties include staff supervision of approximately 25, day-to-day
oversight of medical programming for Atlanta-based shows, resource
supervision, programming development initiatives and special projects.
Please use the following link to apply:
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Senior Executive Producer, Special Events Location: Atlanta, DC or New York
Qualifications: 10 years extensive news gathering and field production
experience: Must be able to take on logistical requirements for major
remotes in the U.S. and overseas: setting up and managing remote
workspaces and control rooms.
5 years tape/package/graphics production experience. Script approval
experience
Proficiency in Excel, Word, Outlook, iNews. 5 years supervision and
management experience
Duties: Propose, analyze, and determine network core coverage and
production approach to major planned news events. Determine the
editorial, coverage, logistical, and production needs of CNN, CNNi,
CNNE, CNN HLN and CNN.com, and how best to accommodate their
requirements and desires, given limited resources. Responsible for
supervising coverage, which includes coordinating editorial, production
and coverage needs of the Newsgroup during the event. Act as senior
editorial voice of the department during coverage.
* Produce live remotes to air. Determine/arrange staffing required for
event at remote locations. Manage the assigned staff in all relevant
locations during the event.
Determine/order transmission, telephone, data facilities for events for
all newsgroup entities.
* Responsible for leadership and management of the Special Events team
including assessing performance against established goals, scheduling
for event coverage and oversight of daily responsibilities.
* Represent CNN in Network Pool planning calls with department/project
members. Cast votes on issues of pool policy and pool scope, including
on issues relating to coverage, logistical, production and budgets.
* Assist in determining project budgets and bill-backs. Assist in
formulating and creating the department coverage and operating/ capital
budget requests for annual review.
Please use the following link to apply:
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