Fox News Network - Chicago, IL
posted 2 months ago
Full-time - Entry Level
Chicago, IL
11-50 employees
About the position
The Digital Content Creator at FOX 32 Chicago is responsible for crafting engaging and impactful digital content that resonates with audiences across various platforms. This role focuses on storytelling through text, photos, graphics, and live streaming, ensuring that the content is relevant to local users and enhances the station's digital presence. The position requires collaboration with the newsroom and other teams to maintain digital and social media dominance, while also monitoring analytics to gauge content performance.
Responsibilities
- Create compelling, UX-focused content related to news, events, and topics relevant to local users and beyond, including text stories, photos/graphics, live streaming content, breaking news, and social media elements.
- Engage and build loyalty among communities.
- Serve as liaison to newsroom, ensuring digital and social dominance.
- Reach and engage users on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, and beyond.
- Work with Group Content Team and other FTS markets to distribute high-interest stories at scale.
- Follow group standards.
- Monitor real-time analytics.
- Other duties as deemed necessary and assigned.
Requirements
- 3+ years experience developing and publishing content, including news, on digital and social platforms preferred.
- BA/BS degree, preferably in Journalism, Communications or related field with emphasis on digital publishing.
- Excellent writer and storyteller.
- Superior news judgement.
- Impeccable writing and copy editing skills.
- Overwhelming attention to detail.
- Thrive under deadline pressure.
- Stellar communication skills.
- Social media expert.
- Proficient in content management systems, video publishing, live streaming, and digital analytics tools.
- Video and photo editing experience (Adobe products a plus).
