Multi-Skilled Beat Producer/Reporter

CBS News is looking for a collaborative, creative, driven beat producer/reporter to research, develop, and create content across multiple platforms, including reporting on camera for the CBS News national streaming platform, “24/7.”

The successful candidate will have a track record of urgently identifying and generating breaking and day-of news content, as well as developing longer-term, in-depth enterprise content, while maintaining the highest ethics in news gathering and production. This person will work directly with the senior coordinating producers of our specific beat units, and with CBS News and Stations correspondents, producers, photographers, graphic artists, and others to build breakthrough content for multiple platforms. Ability to collaborate, flex and multitask is a must. The producer/reporter will assist with breaking news coverage and supply ideas to help distinguish our reporting. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Explore and report on new, important, compelling content with clear value to the audience. Focus areas will include beats including transportation and infrastructure.
• May be assigned to report on camera for national streaming coverage.
• Write scripts independently and in partnership with other individuals.
• Continuously engage in editorial processes, including pitches, story development, script approval, fact checking and legal review. Ensure completeness, balance, and diverse points of view in reporting, in addition to accurate, well-documented, bulletproof content.
• Assist with shooting and editing video to create story elements ranging from newscast packages to longform content and marketing assets.
• Coordinate production elements, such as graphic design, digital layout, and talent presentation in the field or in studio.
• Facilitate highly effective collaboration and frequent communication inside the beats team, including reporters, producers, photographers, and managers throughout CBS News and Stations.
• Help coordinate daily workflow and content execution of reporters and photographers, including assignments, timelines, and resource prioritization.
• Assist beat teams in engaging with partners, such as marketing, affiliates, etc.
• Efficiently apply newsgathering and investigative tactics to acquire information and story elements, such as developing relationships, cultivating sources, strategically landing interviews, navigating open records laws, and using computer-assisted reporting techniques.
• Understand, interpret, and simplify data and other complex information, and then communicate the points and themes to the team in a clear, concise way.
• Urgently develop and implement angles to elevate breaking news and major story coverage.
• May require producing in the field from various locations as needed for the gathering and presentation of content.
• Must be willing to work an unpredictable schedule as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• At least five years of continuous producing/reporting experience.
• Knowledge of transportation and infrastructure subject matter preferred.
• Strong critical thinking and analytical skills.
• Collaboration: Proven ability to champion collaboration across multiple news groups. Strong interpersonal and communication skills to cultivate and maintain valuable relationships.
• Video shooting and editing skills required.
• Travel: Willingness to travel at times to various markets.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in broadcast journalism, communications, environmental studies, or a related field.

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 nation’s #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 O’DONNELL, 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