News Manager, Entertainment, Newsday.com
Long Island
Steve Safran November 8th, 2006
The news manager is an intensely hands-on player who updates the Newsday.com Entertainment section throughout the day, maximizing the potential of the content created by Newsday, its sister newspaper and broadcast sites.
Daily responsibilities include publishing articles, photos, polls, audio/visual and interactive content to a database-driven Web site on deadline. In addition to the technical tasks, the news manager must also write sharp headlines and summaries and perform basic copyediting. The news manager keeps fresh content flowing into the site by coordinating with reporters, editors, and others.
The entertainment news manager will also work closely with our newspaper staff to incorporate stories, multimedia and reader-generated content like blogs and social networks in a powerful, integrated package. We are seeking an experienced journalist with good project management skills and a demonstrated track record help direct the effort.
The news manager streamlines all types of media gathered by reporters in the field and publishes them online in a timely manner. The news manager may, at times, be assigned to gather media. The news manager also assists in the production of longer-term multimedia projects. You must also be able to take feeds from reporters in the field, do original reporting and be able to compile news reports from other sources (i.e. TV and radio).
The job is an opportunity to be among the elite group that will lead Newsday.com, the award winning site for Newsday, the area’s leading provider of local news, information, and entertainment vital to Long Island.
The ideal candidate has previous experience working in online publishing, a mixture of graphic design, web programming and traditional communications abilities and deep understanding of entertainment fields, including pop culture, television, movies and music.
While the primary focus of this position is entertainment, candidates should also be well versed in building guides and special sections that offer utility to our readers. The news manager should also know Web production tools inside and out and be comfortable producing in a fast-paced, breaking news environment.
Working daily (9 a.m. – 5 p.m., Sun.-Thurs.) as part of a team in the Melville, Long Island office, the news manager is an independent, self-reliant worker who is a natural at multitasking, is a problem-solver by nature and is capable of producing original work as well as preparing the work of others for the Web site. The news manager is focused on the end-user experience, and is expected to review site usage and analysis regularly.
Primary Role & Responsibilities
• Programs the various entertainment pages, adding fresh news and instilling local flavor
• Act as a liaison between Newsday.com and the entertainment and features desk
• Produces multimedia and value added content, including audio, video and Flash
• Coordinates with newsroom on daily flow of breaking news and builds special packages for major breaking news events
• Works with managers to determine traffic goals and site planning
• Packages material from newspaper and other sources into compelling online content
• Helps develop and implement a strategy for improving site design and usability to increase traffic
• Takes advantage of opportunities to engage the reader via discussion boards, blogs, etc.
• Builds, edits and sends out email alerts when required
• Answers public feedback and assists in special requests
Experience and Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree and/or 3-5 years of web publishing experience preferred
• Strong HTML skills
• Experience working on a news Web site
• A successful candidate will have reliable transportation
• Experience working with video and audio for the Web, Familiarity with SoundForge, StudioDV, Final Cut Pro, Flash and PhotoShop
• Solid copyediting and writing skills
Contact: Jonathan McCarthy
Jonathan.mccarthy@newsday.com
2 Comments Add your own
1. Carolyn Gehlbach | January 31st, 2007 at 10:47 pm
ROSIE O’DONNELL
Thanks for the beautiful picture of Rosie O’Donnell on your Part 2 cover
of Newsday issue, 31 January 2007.
Rosie O’Donnell is a friend and role model to many people in many ways.
The Newsday article of 4 paragraphs of quotes from Montana Miller in Ohio,
who I am sure has never met Ro, and the best that the Staff Writer Denise Flaim
can compare The View then and now “as a placid estrogen pool” of the intellectual,
savvy, and successful female co-hosts, whose biggest challenge “was not sloshing their oversized coffee cups while readjusting themselves on the sofa” is an outright insult to all women and especially these women who are financially successful and appear regularly
on daytime TV.
Rosie relates to millions of women. You quote from her hometown…two women, one 56 from E. Northport who never personally knew her, and someone from Deer Park, not Ro’s home town, but just shopping in Commack. She is born and bred in Commack and
has risen above all of the negative and positive things that are part of her life. She is an
excellent softball player and in 8th grade was on the winning team of the Girls Athletic
League (GAL-Smithtown) in the final playoffs. She was a leader in her highschool and Senior Class President. She was a natural in the movie “League of her Own.”
The View is a unique program. I see no 4 men co-hosts who have successfully risen to a male program equal to it.
Leave the girls alone. If men voiced similar opinions (they would not be called “antics”).
In America there does not exist an “Old Girls Club” that will ever match the likes of
“The Old Boys Club.”
Carolyn Gehlbach
Commack New York
2. Unison | September 28th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
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