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This role requires flexibility, including a staggered schedule with weekends, late nights, and holidays. Travel may be required as needed. The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with teams across ABC News.
This job is NYC based and in office 5 days a week.
This posting is an opportunity to submit your resume for future consideration; this is not a role that is open at this time. We anticipate this role may be open in the future, but we are not actively hiring for the position. If you would like to be considered for this potential role, please submit your resume. If the role becomes available, you may receive an email or call from a recruiter.
Responsibilities
- Support the Booking Team with securing guests for daily news and feature segments, as well as breaking news coverage
- Prepare guests for appearances across various ABC News Live programs
- Pitch and thoroughly vet story ideas
- Meet and greet studio guests and complete all administrative steps for onboarding
- Gather relevant production elements from booked guests for show rundowns
- Maintain booking grids and internal databases
- Ensure guest bookings reflect diverse perspectives and represent a wide range of viewpoints
- Work collaboratively with editorial, production, and cross-functional teams
- Experience in TV production and Journalism
- Strong editorial judgment
- Excellent communication, organization, and multitasking skills
- Ability to prioritize in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Proactive mindset with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively
- Positive, can-do attitude with a strong enjoyment of problem solving
- Enjoys working on teams and has a passion for storytelling
- Comfortable working in a start-up style environment
- Experience with iNews
- Familiarity with shooting on DV cameras
- Proficiency in leveraging social media platforms for sourcing and storytelling
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required
