Division: Global News Toronto
Work Status: Temporary Full-time (6 Month Contract)
Location: Toronto, ON – Don Mills (Hybrid)
About the Role:
Global News is looking for an experienced Show Producer to join our Crime Beat team based out of Toronto. This position will report to the Executive Producer – Crime Beat. The successful candidate will be responsible for researching, writing, and producing segments and managing full episodes for Crime Beat on Global TV, Global News’ true crime doc series. This is Group 4 in the current collective agreement.
You’ll be working on things like:
- Producing, scripting and vetting content for full length true crime investigative episodes.
- Researching, chasing, and delivering content for Crime Beat TV.
- Writing and vetting compelling, accurate scripts for full length true crime investigative episodes.
- Booking interview subjects.
- Transcribing interview content.
- Developing creative ways to deliver engaging and unique episodes for Crime Beat TV.
- Assignment of stories, cameras, resources, and reporters.
- Liaising with the Crime Beat and Global News staff for scheduling crews to film segments.
- Writing and producing related online stories and video.
- Maintaining Global News’ high production standards.
- Overseeing the editing of episodes.
- Other duties as required.
If you have the following…we want to hear from you!
- Post-secondary education in journalism, communications, or a related field
- Minimum of 5 years TV news and documentary production experience with a special focus on long-form storytelling.
- Experience producing investigative, true crime, crime, and justice stories.
- Experience producing full length episodes from start to finish.
- Working knowledge of all newsroom production software.
- Working knowledge of desktop editing.
- Must have proven strong editorial news judgment, with solid investigative research abilities.
- Proven ability to access and interpret property searches, title searches, court records and civil filings for all jurisdictions.
- Proven ability to write and execute Freedom of Information requests for all levels of government.
- Strong news writing skills.
- Proven ability to multitask, working quickly and efficiently under tight deadlines.
- Familiarity with online content production, writing for the web, WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites.
- Must have excellent people skills with the ability to work independently, effectively, and cooperatively in a team environment
- Strong and proven leadership skills a must.
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