Associate MMCC - Toronto, Canada - Rogers Communications

Description

Are you ready to take your career to new heights and be a part of a dynamic team at Rogers Sports & Media? We believe in creativity, innovation, and collaboration in everything we do, and we are looking for people who share this mindset to join us. With a monthly reach of 30 million Canadians, you can help shape the future of sports, news, e-commerce, and entertainment. At Rogers, we value diversity and inclusivity and believe that every voice matters. Join us today and be a part of a team that is redefining the future of media.

We're looking for an Casual/Temporary Associate Multi-Media Content Creator to shape and strengthen the CityNews brand as our news operations continue to transition to digital and we radically change the way we produce and tell our stories in order to better engage and build our audiences.

The ideal candidate has competence in a number of the skills required to work in a modern, multi-platform, continuous news operation, and an aptitude and desire to learn more.

Writing, chasing, researching, producing, digital storytelling, pitching, interviewing, posting, basic shooting and desktop editing – you have, or with training are on your way to having, the ability to create journalistic content from the idea stage to publishing or broadcast.

You have a passion for local news, strong editorial judgement, and are looking for an opportunity to learn and grow while working alongside a talented, innovative and fun team of journalists.

What you'll be doing:

• Working as part of a team, you will create fast-paced, compelling and informative news content for our digital properties and for broadcast on our television and radio news programs.
• Coordinating and deploying newsroom and field resources to gather elements and create news content.
• Pitching during daily creative brainstorms and story meetings.
• Emailing, Tweeting, calling and interviewing people as you chase, research, and create enterprise or breaking news content.
• Creating innovative video content optimized for a digital audience.
• Ensuring that content is factually and grammatically correct.

What you have:

• Write breaking and enterprise news content for television, radio, and digital platforms. Proofread and copy-edit news content.
• Research, pitch and chase story ideas, including breaking news and enterprise news, including leads submitted by our audience. Pre-interview guests and arrange necessary resources for broadcast segments.
• Edit and publish digital content in our content management system (WordPress) and/or manage television content in our television content management system (Inception).
• Visual editing skills (Quantel, Premiere Pro), including the ability to add keys and graphics prior to digital publishing. Independently create video content, from raw media to final product, with an ability to apply editorial judgment.
• Basic still and video photography skills, including the ability to add those photos and videos to digital and broadcast content.
• Ability to perform various tasks related to the production of visual news, including scheduling content feeds, records and live streams using ScheduAll; coordinating live hits in a control room; searching for visuals from various sources (CityNews archives, social media, licensed content providers.)
• Distribute and amplify content, including breaking news and push alerts, to our internal and external platforms, including Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Delivery and promotion of digital content on our social channels, whether created by the MMCC or others, including audience engagement.

Schedule: Part time
Shift: No Selection
Length of Contract: Not Applicable (Regular Position)
Work Location: 33 Dundas St. East (909), Toronto, ON
Travel Requirements: None
Posting Category/Function: Broadcasting & News
Requisition ID: 307880