Associate Producer
Job Location: Chicago, IL
We’re looking for an Associate Producer who thrives in a fast‑paced newsroom and is excited to help build compelling, competitive newscasts for Chicago and its surrounding communities. If you love collaboration, value feedback, and understand that strong television news is a true team sport — especially when news doesn’t stop on weekends or during off‑hours — we want to meet you.
This role works closely with Producers, Directors, Anchors, Reporters, and Digital teams to stack, write, and edit video for daily newscasts and local programming. You’ll play a key role in shaping our storytelling, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and strong visual presentation under deadline pressure.
Responsibilities:
- Assist with multiple production needs across broadcast and digital platforms
- Stack, write, and edit content for multiple newscasts during a shift
- Collaborate with reporters on scripts, packages, and live shots
- Contribute to editorial decision‑making, including graphics and visual elements, particularly during breaking news
- Research stories using the internet, video archives, and newsroom resources
- Help showcase big stories in a clear, compelling, and visually engaging way
- Edit video and assist in producing new or expanded newscasts
- Post stories and segments to digital platforms as assigned
- Serve as a fill‑in Producer when needed
- Always maintain ethical journalism practices and newsroom content standards
Requirements:
- Minimum of three (3) years of newsroom experience in a television news environment
- Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communications, TV/Film, or equivalent experience
- Strong writing skills with excellent grammar, attention to detail, and sound news judgment
- Ability to work under deadline pressure and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
- Strong understanding of visual, written, and verbal storytelling
- Ability to collaborate effectively with producers, reporters, anchors, photographers, digital, production, and engineering teams
- Strong sense of journalistic integrity and understanding of audience needs and expectations
- Knowledge of brand‑building directives and newsroom standards
- A team‑first mindset with a willingness to learn, adapt, and support the newsroom
- Flexibility to work weekends and varied shifts as newsroom demands require
SALARY RANGE: $60K – $70K Annualized – commensurate with applicant’s experience and skill level
Benefits: Our comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees includes, but not limited to, medical (with multiple plan options), dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, Paid Parental leave, life insurance and more.
