Associate Multi-media Content Creator

Come play a key role in building the future of Sports & Media Everyone wants to be part of a transformational team - and that’s exactly what we’re building at Rogers Sports & Media. A team that innovates and a team that wins.

At Rogers Sports & Media we are committed to creating and growing teams that are digital-first, fast-moving and bold-thinking and are focused on delivering impact with everything they do. Our impressive collection of assets includes media properties, sports teams, sports events & production, venues, e-commerce platforms and a close connection with our Connected Home and Wireless team. Collectively, we touch the lives of 30 million Canadians every month

Are you up for the challenge and the fun? If so, consider the following opportunity

We’re looking for an 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. This role will require regular and consistent shifts on the weekends and in the evenings.

**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.
- Performing various control room duties.
- Pitching during daily creative brainstorms and story meetings.
- Creating innovative video content optimized for a digital audience.
- Ensuring that content is factually and grammatically correct.

**What you will bring...**
- Creative vision and keen editorial judgment
- Superior writing, organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills
- Shift work required (regular weekend and evenings)
- An appetite to learn and grow

**Skills and Competencies**:

- This role is designed to build a newsroom staff that has the capability to respond to an ever-increasing appetite for continuous news on multiple platforms. The skills below are not an exhaustive list, nor is the expectation that the Associate Multi-Media Content Creator has competence in all of them. A solid grounding in a number of these skills, and a willingness and desire to learn more, is the expectation.
- ** WRITING**: Write breaking and enterprise news content for television, radio, and digital platforms. Proofread and copy-edit news content.
- ** RESEARCH/CHASE**: 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.
- ** DIGITAL AND TELEVISION CMS KNOWLEDGE**: Edit and publish digital content in our content management system (WordPress) and/or manage television content in our television content management system (Inception). In WordPress, this includes headlines and media, and ensuing our digital platforms and homepage are updated with the very latest local, national and international news stories, and that our pages and apps are optimized for reach and engagement. In Inception, this requires building lines in Inception Running Orders, inserting production cues, creating Xpression elements (keys/graphics), generating placeholders and ensuring broadcast elements have times (keys/durations) updated accordingly.
- ** VIDEO/STILL PHOTOGRAPHY**: Basic still and video photography skills, including the ability to add those photos and videos to digital and broadcast content.
- ** VIDEO SUPPORT**: 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.)
- ** RESOURCE MANAGEMENT**: Deploy and manage resources (field camera operator/editors, reporters etc.) for breaking and enterprise news, shifting those resources based on story tracking on social and other platforms.
- ** DIGITAL PLATFORM PUBLISHING**: 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. Management/ownership of social media, using third-party programs to do so, such as Social Studio and Media Proxy. Creating social media campaigns to promote stories/specials. This incorporates scheduling social posts but also understanding how/when the audience consumes content on various platforms.
- ** LIVESTREAM**: Initiate and manage live video streams on our internal and external platforms.

**Here’s what you can expect in return**:

- A competitive salary and benefits that include access