Job Description
DC News Now, a fast-growing Nexstar Media Inc. station in Washington, D.C., is seeking a Media Coordinator to play a crucial role in managing and organizing media assets across our news, production, and engineering teams. This hands-on position ensures the smooth operation of our media workflows, from content ingestion to archiving, without direct supervisory responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Oversee daily content management, including feeds, file transfers, and records.
- Manage and ensure correct delivery of content to Master Control servers.
- Serve as backup for Master Control operations in case of HUB connectivity issues.
- Distribute media in the correct format and codec, with the ability to transcode as needed.
- Coordinate and monitor local media workflows to ensure 100% accuracy of playout of recorded shows.
- Collaborate with production, news, and engineering teams to maintain seamless media operations.
- Establish, train, and maintain standard operating procedures for media asset management.
- Manage media archive storage and retention, using best judgment to ensuring compliance with company policies.
- Organize, distribute, delete, and archive media assets while determining appropriate storage workflows.
- Monitor production schedules to ensure proper recording, ingest, movement, and archiving of media.
- Assist with ingesting and recording tasks as needed by production staff or as directed by news management.
Qualifications
- Experience: 5+ years in a Media Coordinator, Digital Asset Coordinator, or similar role in a broadcast or digital media environment.
- Technical Skills: Proven experience managing raw feeds, edited packages, and production materials.
- Expertise: Strong understanding of digital media workflows, including ingest-to-archive processes, and media asset management systems.
- Collaboration: Excellent teamwork skills with the ability to work closely with news, production, and engineering teams.
- Experience with Bit-Central preferred
The pay range for this position is $68,000-$72,000 salary. Other compensation includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K match, Vacation, and Paid Parental leave.
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DC News Now is proud to provide more than 67 hours of local news programming each week as an independent broadcast news station and a CW Network affiliate. You also will find our content 24/7 through our digital and social platforms, including DCNewsNow.com.
Going beyond the Beltway to cover the entire DMV region, DC News Now has an impressive footprint with five locations that include the main office in Washington, D.C., and satellite bureaus in Frederick, Hagerstown, and Lanham Maryland, and Chantilly, Virginia.
DC News Now is committed to serving the DMV community through in-depth storytelling, weather coverage for the entire region, and thoughtful reporting with unbiased journalistic integrity.
DC News Now and DCW50 are owned by Nexstar Media Group, Inc., America’s largest local television and media company.