Digital Editor

Job Description

WGAL News 8, the Hearst Television NBC affiliate serving the Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York, PA market, is looking for a Digital Editor. You are a dynamic and creative content creator who will contribute to our digital platforms. The right candidate will thrive in a competitive, fast-paced environment creating stand-out content for our website, mobile products and social media platforms. You must be an excellent storyteller who can edit and create content while facing intense competition under constant deadline pressure. The ideal candidate would be an advocate for our digital platforms – coordinating with reporters, producers and photojournalists to maximize output and make it so WGAL is everywhere our viewers need us. Breaking news and weather are pillars of our coverage, and you must know how to maximize it all, while accomplishing daily responsibilities. Connecting and collaborating with teammates and viewers is critical. You will report to the Digital Content Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Write/edit and publish breaking news and weather, daily news, sports and enterprise feature stories for our station website, app, and other social media platforms
• Write compelling headlines; especially for mobile and social media and carefully create mobile push notifications for breaking news, big stories and severe weather
• Manage LIVE streams of newscasts and breaking news
• Create vertical video content for our branded platforms, as well as engaging social media posts. 
• Contribute ideas to help grow our station's platforms and increase our performance ratings.

Requirements:

• 1-3 years of experience in a professional television newsroom or web-publishing environment preferred
• Compelling news/editorial judgment and ability to make independent decisions
• Excellent AP writing skills
• Basic knowledge of video editing
• Experience with social media best practices
• Flexibility to work different shifts (including overnights, nights and weekends), holidays on short notice to cover a 24-hour news cycle
• Work well in an environment with frequent interruptions
• Can gather information from multiple sources simultaneously and quickly push it out to anchors, reporters and producers
• Be able to remain calm and level-headed during breaking news situations
• Related military experience will be considered
• In-person attendance is required

Diversity Statement

At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That's why, behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization as diverse and varied as the audience we reach, ensuring that the content we create is more compassionate, and more representative of the communities we serve.

Benefits

Hearst's benefit programs are modern, flexible and designed to focus on you. As a Hearst employee, you and your spouse or partner or dependents would have access to the following benefits.

• Medical | Dental | Vision
• 401(k) matching
• Emotional Wellness Support
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• LGBTQ+ Health Services
• Additional benefits to meet your and your family's needs

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